Word: peay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March, when Governor Peay signed the famous anti-evolution bill, he stated that "probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes it is going to be an active statute." In short, the Governor perched himself beautifully on the fence. The Fundamentalists were to have their law and their opponents were to have non-enforcement, and everybody was to be happy...
...After signing the anti-evolution bill in March, said governor Austin Peay: "After a careful examination, I could find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools with which this bill will interfere the slightest manner...
...bill prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the schools was signed by the Governor of Tennessee and became a law less than two months ago. His Excellency, in defending his action, caustically declared at that time that nobody believed it was going to be an active statute. Governor Peay, however, had his tongue in his cheek all the while it now appears. Professor J. T. Scopes, a scientist, is one of the first to realize that the soft spoken Fundamentalists were not so playful as they pretended, for before he knew it he found himself arrested to face a charge...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
Governor Austin Peay read this bill with pleasure. He took up his pen, affixed his name in such a position as to make the bill a law, then wrote a letter to the legislators: "Right or wrong, there is a deep and widespread belief that something is shaking the fundamentals of the country, both in religion and morals. It is the opinion of many than an abandonment of the old fashioned faith and belief in the Bible is our trouble in large degrees. It is my own belief...