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The impending trial at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John T. Scopes for giving instruction in Evolution, contrary to a state law, continued to clutter the press with reiteration of the issues at stake, which adherents of both sides of the case stoutly believed would "educate" the public up to the...
In Dayton, Walter White, superintendent of schools in Rhea County, had thousands of letterheads printed defining himself as "Prosecutor in the State of Tennessee vs. John T. Scopes-Evolution Case." Assisting Mr. White, perspiring, in shirt sleeves, were many "real live wires," who kept a stenographer frantic taking letters on...
The blatant ballyhoo for the trial, next month, at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, indicted by a grand jury under Tennessee's anti-evolution law (TIME, May 18), continued to occupy an exaggerated amount of space in the newspapers. Actual developments were few.
In Manhattan, Teacher Scopes was rushed about, nervous and bewildered, to conferences where lawyers who were allegedly interested solely in seeing justice done squabbled amongst themselves as to who should be chosen and in what order they should rank. In the excitement, Teacher Scopes became the forgotten instrument of a...
Lawyers Darrow, Malone and Colby called at the Museum of Natural History to confer with Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn and to be shown by him the complete paleontological evidence of Evolution. With this evidence, the barristers declared themselves "satisfied."