Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME Memphis, Tenn...
...William Jennings Bryan. They brought his body to the Capital, where it lay in state in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church for 24 hours, guarded by Spanish War veterans, while crowds filed past it. At the same time his last speech, prepared for the evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn., but never delivered, was given to the public by his family (see EDUCATION) his last gift to the country...
...close up the gaps through which criminals now regain their liberty on technicalities. There is no place in the world where crime is more rampant than it is in the United States. There are more murders and other crimes of violence committed here in a small town like Memphis, Tenn., for instance, than there are in all Turkey, and I've spent a lot of time in Turkey...
...verdict had been already delivered, but the trial of Teacher Scopes at Dayton, Tenn., did not close until last week, when Mr. Bryan's last speech- which he had intended to deliver in summing up, but which the defense had at the last moment canceled-was given to the public...
...judge's bench, a cotton-topped, curly-headed boy of four played about, waiting to draw the names of venire-men for the jury from a box, a duty assigned to a young child by state law. The Judge himself, John T. Raulston of Winchester, Tenn., after opening the court and calling a special sitting of the grand jury to reindict Scopes so that there might be no mistake, sat back in his chair chewing gum, waving to friends among the spectators, occasionally calling for order when growls of prejudice greeted the cross-questioning to which Darrow and Malone...