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...called to defend in the spectacular Scopes case in 1925. This was the case in which a Tennessee school teacher was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan for teaching the theory of evolution to his innocent pupils in violation of a state law. Darrow took the defense with Arthur Garfield Hayes and Dudley Field Malone and by carrying the case to the Tennessee Supreme Court, managed to get Scopes freed on a technicality...
...evidence points to a complete innocence of the defendants in the Reich-stag fire trial," claimed Arthur Garfield Hays, prominent New York attorney at a monster mass meeting last night at Tremont Temple. The meeting, which was supported by the Harvard Liberal Club, the Harvard Chapter of the National Student League, and the Harvard Monarch, was arranged by the Boston Committee to Aid Fascist Victims...
...American Civil Liberties Union stepped in at this timely point and conducted a thorough investigation. In the trial chief defense counsel Arthur Garfield Hayes brought out the rank rottenness of the state's case and was able to get one Samuel Wein, "Major General" of the Khaki Shirts to perjure himself and tell who the real killer was, a man named Moffer. If only the case had come up somewhere outside of New York, thereby preventing the Union from hearing about it until after there had been a conviction, it would, without much doubt have become another cause celebre...
...addition to Arthur Garfield Hays and Anna Schultz, Professor Alice Hamilton of the Medical School will speak at the meeting. Henry W. L. Dana will translate for Miss Schultz. A greeting from Professor Albert Einstein will be read at the meeting...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, noted lawyer, will speak at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Club, the Harvard Chapters of the National Student League and the League for Industrial Democracy, together with the Boston Committee to aid Victims of German Fascism. The meeting will take place on Friday night, December 15. Anna Schultz, former secretary to Ernst Togler, and Samuel Untermeyer will also address the gathering, which is to take place in the Tremont Temple Auditorium...