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Past master of the art of musical pedagogy is Leopold Auer, veteran professor...
...Clarence Darrow, famed criminals' (Leopold-Loeb) advocate of Chicago, announced his intention of ascending Middle-Western stumps in behalf of Candidate LaFollette...
...Heaven and Hell that the Fundamentalists have to flourish we will find many of our progressive moves being held in check. For instance their positive belief that everyone goes either to Heaven or Hell makes them argue in favor of capital punishment. At the time the time the Leopold-Loeb case was going on, I heard Doctor Straton from his own pulpit give as a reason for the horrible crime that the Devil had possessed the two boys...
...Chicago, scene of the Loeb-Leopold murder case, he challenged...
...sentencing by Judge John Richard Caverly of Leopold and Loeb to the penitentiary for life is the end, so far as court records are concerned, of what has been called "the greatest murder trial of all times." It has resulted, however, in giving a preferred position before the bar of public opinion to the case against capital punishment. In the past, the subject of capital punishment has been approached, mainly, from what may be called the "sentimental viewpoint." Its opponents have stressed "long lists of mistaken verdicts." Its advocates have sometimes been dangerously close to the theory of personal vengeance...