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Generally considered to be the most brilliant legal mind in the history of American jurisprudence, Clarence Seward Darrow was born in Kinsma, OH, in 1857, the son of a failed minister who became a furniture-store owner and an intellectual but religiously puritanical mother. In 1873 he attended Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, but the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1873 swept the US that year, and Darrow was forced to leave school and find work--first in a factory, then in a store, and finally he spent three cold winters teaching in a country school.
At age 19 he entered the University of Michigan to study law, and was admitted to the bar at age 21. He began his first law practice in Andover, OH, then went to Ashtabula. After several successful years there he moved to Chicago in 1888. It was there he read and was greatly influenced by John P. Altgeld's "Our Penal Code and Its Victims", which reinforced many ideas he already had about the law and crime--that poverty is a cause of crime, not a result of it, and, most importantly to him, that the death penalty was what he blasted as "organized, legal murder". He put his energies into his causes and took on some of the most controversial cases of the day--defending and winning an acquittal for socialist and labor organizer Eugene V. Debs following the American Railway Union strike; getting acquittals on trumped-up murder charges for three Western Federation of Miners officials, including "Big Bill" Haywood, a firebrand labor organizer. His most famous case, though, involved the "Scopes Monkey Trial", in which he defended a teacher in Tennessee who--in violation of state law--dared to teach that the theory of evolution was valid. The trial attracted worldwide attention, and Darrow found himself up against the famous lawyer and politician William Jennings Bryan, a conservative ideologue with a reputation to equal his. Darrow lost that case, but it resulted in the overturning of that particular law, and the ensuing ridicule heaped upon it resulted in similar legislation in other states being overturned.
In addition to his activities as a lawyer, Darrow was also a writer, and in 1899 he edited a collection of his essays, called "The Persian Pearl". In 1906 he wrote "Farmington", an account of his childhood. He also wrote several sociological treatises, including "Resist Not Evil" in 1903 and "An Eye for an Eye" in 1904, and in 1922 wrote what is considered his best-known work: "Crime: Its Cause and Treatment". He didn't wrote solely on legal topics, however; he came out with "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology" in 1929. His full autobiography, "The Story of My Life", which he called "a plain unvarnished account of how things really have happened, as nearly as I can possibly hold to the truth", was published in 1932.
Clarence Darrow was married twice--to Jesse Ohl, with whom he had a son, Paul, and whom he divorced in 1897, and later to Ruby Hammerstrom, who survived him. He died in 1938 in Chicago, IL.- Writer
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Kubec Glasmon was a Polish-American screenwriter and novelist. Originally working as a pharmacist, Glasmon collaborated with John Bright in writing a number of crime stories and novels.
In 1931, his novel "The Public Enemy" was adapted into a film, and Glasmon himself was hired as its screenwriter. The film was well-received and Glasmon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. The award was instead won by rival screenwriter John Monk Saunders (1897-1940). However, Glasmon started regularly working as a screenwriter afterwards. Highlights of his career included the crime film "Taxi!" (1932), the musical "Bolero" (1934), and the thriller "The Glass Key" (1935).
In 1940, Glasmon suffered a heart attack, and died. He was 40-years-old. He received a posthumous film credit, as the screenwriter of the medical drama film "Calling Dr. Gillespie" (1942).- Writer
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Daniel Jarrett was born on 22 November 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Windjammer (1937), The Mine with the Iron Door (1936) and Park Avenue Logger (1937). He was married to Dorothy H. Vogel. He died on 13 March 1938 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Wingold Lawrence was born on 3 January 1874 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Eugene Aram (1914), Two Lancashire Lasses in London (1916) and The Girl Who Took the Wrong Turning (1915). He was married to Marie Lyons and Mary Elizabeth McCauley. He died on 13 March 1938 in London, England, UK.