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Fundamentalist crusader Matthew Harrison Brady (a caricature of William Jennings Bryan), a nationally-known politician and lawyer (and former three-time presidential candidate) sweeps into Hillsboro to help prosecute Cates ... William Jennings Bryan was not disappointed with Scopes' $100 fine (as portrayed in the film) ... Brady is the perfect picture of the aging firebrand, William Jennings Bryan. (Suite101.com)
The Long Goodbye Mar 6, 2008
"If Mr. Kennedy is feeling no great financial pressure to get out of the race," the New York Times reported on June 11, "he also appears to be feeling no great pressure to withdraw to avoid splitting the Democratic party." Days before the convention, Kennedy announced he would break precedent to become the first Democrat since William Jennings Bryan to address the convention before the first roll callthe gesture of an active candidate, not a peacemaker. He ultimately surrendered at the... (Slate)
The Word from Huey Long Mar 5, 2008
This is no William Jennings Bryan reciting his Cross of Gold speech with dramatic gestures. It's more like a reincarnation of John F. Kennedy's restrained elegance. (Townhall.com)
Division and unityHow party conventions have played a key role in US political history Mar 3, 2008
Thirty-six years later, in Chicago, the Democratic Party convention was in turn mesmerised by a young orator from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan, who advocated "soft money" to help struggling farmers in the Midwest ... William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Convention, 1896. (BBC News -- Americas)
The challenge of being a populist in 2008 Mar 2, 2008
They included impassioned orators like William Jennings Bryan, Tom Watson, and "Fighting Bob" LaFollette ... William Jennings Bryan. (Yahoo News)
Predicts 'Nasty' & 'Vicious' GOP Attacks on Obama Feb 29, 2008
" ... Mr. Obama's middle name, which is Muslim in origin, comes from his late father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan. Mr. Cunningham, like some other conservative commentators, uses it frequently when referring to Mr. Obama, apparently to draw attention to his ancestry. Mr. Obama has been dogged by whispered rumors that he is a Muslim; he is a Christian. END of Excerpt For the story in full: So is the phrase "Barack Hussein Obama" forbidden in the Times, since it is apparently terribly... (MediaResearch.org)
Fear-peddlers degrade election discourse Feb 29, 2008
I'm sure William F. Buckley is already in a hot debate with Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan over some scholarly matter. God bless you, Bill. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Letters to the Editor - 2/22/2008 Feb 23, 2008
Remember William Jennings Bryan ... Again, I would point to LIBERAL populist Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, a devout Christian, who also argued the prosecution (pro-creation) side in the Scopes trial against Clarence Darrow. (North County Times)
Huckabee and Modern-Day Clarence Darrows: Inheriting the Wind on Evolution Feb 17, 2008
Under the leadership of the late William Jennings Bryan [Scopess primary antagonist], the forces of ignorance and intolerance were marshalled (sic) from Maine to California, and from Canada to Mexico ... William Jennings Bryan pointed out that the doctrine that Darrow and the evolutionists would teach in the schools is the very same one that gives us Nietzsche ... Under the leadership of the late William Jennings Bryan [Scopess primary antagonist], the forces of ignorance and... (Townhall.com)
K.J. gets overlooked, but shouldn't | Braves Feb 9, 2008
And the ghost of William Jennings Bryan preaches every night. To save the lonely souls in the dashboard lights. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Dollar requires mint freshener Feb 7, 2008
This lie was exposed by William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1896 when he denounced the power-grab in describing it as "the Crime of 1873". He was referring to the closing of the US mint to silver in 1873, the first major violation of the Constitutions monetary provisions. (Asia Times Online)
A GREAT CONTEST Feb 2, 2008
A William Jennings Bryan populist. And, although they recently dropped out, we also had a new son of the Old South and an Italian-American mayor in the mix. (New York Post -- Opinions)
A Fair Defense for the Fair Tax Jan 29, 2008
William Jennings Bryan promised that an income tax would fair and tax only the rich ... William Jennings Bryan promised that an income tax would fair and tax only the rich. (Townhall.com)
Obama or Clinton? Jan 24, 2008
It all started in 1908, when William Jennings Bryan, a presidential front-runner, visited the Lexington, Va ... It all started in 1908, when William Jennings Bryan, a presidential front-runner, visited the Lexington, Va. (Townhall.com)
'08 RACE: SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT Jan 23, 2008
Someone should tell him the joke that another populist, William Jennings Bryan, told on himself after losing three presidential elections as the Democrats' nominee. A man tried three times to enter a saloon and three times was tossed out. (New York Post -- Opinions)
A Clear Narrative in Primary Season Jan 22, 2008
Someone should tell him the joke that another populist, William Jennings Bryan, told on himself after losing three presidential elections (1896, 1900 and 1908) as the Democrats' nominee ... Someone should tell him the joke that another populist, William Jennings Bryan, told on himself after losing three presidential elections (1896, 1900 and 1908) as the Democrats' nominee. (Townhall.com)
From rat killing to opera old Coliseum saw it all Jan 20, 2008
For example, William Jennings Bryan appeared there in 1899, Clarence Darrow in 1910, and Will Rogers in 1928. Back in April 1910, an advertisement for Charles A. Towne, the so-called Cicero of the Senate, promised ticket buyers a witchery of word painting. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Young evangelicals embrace Huckabee Jan 13, 2008
His singular style Christian traditionalism and the common-man populism of William Jennings Bryan, leavened by an affinity for bass guitar and late-night comedy shows has energized many young and working-class evangelicals. Their support helped his shoestring campaign come from nowhere to win the Iowa Republican caucus and join the front-runners in Michigan, South Carolina and national polls. (MSNBC -- Race)
Questions for the Fair Tax Crowd Jan 10, 2008
When the income tax was originally promoted by William Jennings Bryan and other populists it was labeled as being fairer, since it would not hit the poor ... When the income tax was originally promoted by William Jennings Bryan and other populists it was labeled as being fairer, since it would not hit the poor. (Townhall.com)
Different styles, same audience for Obama and Huckabee Jan 5, 2008 Goldilocks Needs Tax-Reform, Not Populism Jan 5, 2008 What about the cities? Jan 4, 2008 Edwards uses fighting words in White House quest Jan 1, 2008 Mark Joseph: Huckabee Rise Exposes Conservative Rift Jan 1, 2008 For sound bites, they're go-to guys Dec 28, 2007 Huckabee on the Chautauqua Dec 27, 2007 Can Al Gore Save Christmas? Dec 24, 2007 The Politics Of Delusional Pundits Dec 23, 2007 Can Anyone Win This Thing? Dec 23, 2007 Mike Huckabee's ascending chariot Dec 22, 2007 Looking for Mr. Right Dec 22, 2007 14 comments Dec 20, 2007 Edwards pitches populism Dec 13, 2007 Church restoration to earn award Dec 13, 2007 Newsweek's Meacham:New American holy war? Dec 10, 2007 Odds and ends to end the week Dec 9, 2007 Can't Wait Through 2008... Citizens Have New Site to Decide America's Financial Future Dec 5, 2007 Muddied Waters in the Presidential Race Dec 2, 2007 Coral Gables won't rest on its laurels Nov 28, 2007 Dorothy on the couch Nov 24, 2007 Commentary: Elections Old And New Nov 14, 2007 Evolution vs. creation Nov 2, 2007 Evidence for Creation Oct 30, 2007 Dems credited with starting groupthat attacked both blacks and whites Oct 25, 2007 Nolan A. 'Sue' Herndon, 88; one of Doolittle's Raiders Oct 15, 2007 The U.S. is not a 'Christian nation' Oct 9, 2007 Conquer Public Speaking Fear Oct 6, 2007 Public library to mark 100 years Oct 2, 2007 Square peg Keller comes full circle Sep 11, 2007 Candidates spending millions for advice Sep 2, 2007 Wonderful Wawona Aug 19, 2007 Matters of Morality Jul 28, 2007 The Taxing Nature Of Politics And Pork Jul 17, 2007 Today in History July 9 Jul 9, 2007 Obama shows Iowa he's got 'game' Jul 8, 2007 Charles Darwin's defense of missionaries stirs questions Jul 2, 2007 Douglas MacArthur in Japan Jun 28, 2007 Making their mark on history Jun 20, 2007 God bless the Harrisburg School Board members Jun 14, 2007 Today in History June 8 Jun 8, 2007 Click for Full Story Jun 8, 2007 Real or myth? 2 museums showcase fossils Jun 5, 2007 Inside the Creation Museum Jun 1, 2007 Santa Maria Inn steeped in Central Coast history May 28, 2007 C-SPAN2/BookTV Features Encore Presentation of 1920 Author David Pietrusza and ABC's Ann Compton May 26, 2007 Inside the Beltway (John McCaslin) May 18, 2007 Falwell Made Religious Right Into Political Force May 16, 2007 Tenet Chose Power Over Honor May 10, 2007 We need campaign finance reform May 9, 2007 The will of the uninformed Apr 25, 2007 The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial Apr 24, 2007 Political winds shift on prairie Apr 16, 2007 In a prairie state, winds of change Apr 16, 2007 History of Moberly film tells interesting story Apr 15, 2007 Gigs and Garlands Apr 15, 2007 Bibles Thumping, Suspenders Snapping Apr 14, 2007 Inherit the Wind Apr 13, 2007 'Wind' doesn't live up to its legacy Apr 13, 2007 Law And Ardor In 'Wind' Apr 13, 2007 Pomp in circumstances of a new 'Wind' Apr 13, 2007 Play inspires forum on evolution Apr 6, 2007 Ticket lottery offers chance to witness a great debate Apr 4, 2007 Wonky Clinton Woos Labor Mar 30, 2007 A sense of history Mar 20, 2007
In Democrat Obama's oratory, Kathleen Hall Jamieson hears echoes of Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and even that old populist preacher, William Jennings Bryan. Republican Huckabee, meanwhile, follows the homespun path of GOP icon Ronald Reagan. (Boston Globe)
Bold reformers are mere performers Jan 5, 2008
In their wake - and this list barely skims the surface - came the Chartists and their campaign to expand voting rights; William Gladstone, the Liberal politician who championed public education; William Jennings Bryan, the American progressive populist, whose "Cross of Gold" speech articulated the fight of the working class against the self-seeking monied interests; Theodore Roosevelt, the trust-busting president who tamed the repulsive Gilded Age of Capitalism; his distant cousin Franklin, who... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Todays John Edwards/Mike Huckabee anti-business populism sounds more like William Jennings Bryan than Adam Smith ... Todays John Edwards/Mike Huckabee anti-business populism sounds more like William Jennings Bryan than Adam Smith. (Townhall.com)
John Edwards may be fighting for the rural, populist mantle of William Jennings Bryan, but his antipoverty policies could help inner cities if his economic populism doesn't destroy urban entrepreneurship first. Hillary Clinton's pragmatic centrism will do the least to fight urban poverty, but her focus on education and innovation may well be the best thing for cities in the long run. (Boston Globe)
According to historians, Edwards's message echoes another of that era's famed crusaders, three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. "He's channeling the legacy of economic populism from Andrew Jackson onward," said Michael Kazin, a Georgetown University professor and author of a Bryan biography. (Boston Globe)
For Huckabee is an unreconstructed and unapologetic pre-1980 Republican who has more in common with William Jennings Bryan than Ronald Reagan and whose views expose the deep rift that has always existed between social and economic conservatives ... In short, Reagan, making arguments that appealed to their Biblical heritage, argued for a wholesale reversal of decades of soft-hearted Evangelical politics and convinced millions of American Christians that they were in reality full-throated... (Fox News)
Who will win the Democratic caucus: "I can tell you who won in 1908. 2008 is harder." For the record, Nevada voted for William Jennings Bryan, who lost to William Howard Taft. Turnout: "30,000. 50,000 if the weather's nice.". (Las Vegas Sun)
Mike Huckabee says he wants his party to be "inclusive" and he has been compared to William Jennings Bryan, a devout Christian who ran for president against William McKinley in 1896 ... As one of the Iowa locals told The New York Times: "Huckabee's a moral man. He's a preacher. And he lost a hundred pounds. He's going to do all right in Iowa. What I don't know is how he's going to go with the rest of the country." Maybe he should channel William Jennings Bryan ... Mike Huckabee says he wants his... (Townhall.com)
William Jennings Bryan led this same battle (if I recall correctly, called Fundamentalists at the time) against the creeping Progressivism spreading from the large urban population centers. Bryan led the battle right up to his death in 1925. (Human Events Online)
The youthful William Jennings Bryan brought down the house and swept up the nomination with his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1896 only to be crushed by the dreary William McKinley in November. Political journalists have never been immune to the delusional style. (CBS News)
Perhaps the premier populist in American history, William Jennings Bryan was also the premier loser -- nominated three times for president by the Democratic Party without ever winning. Recent history suggests that to win the presidency, you have to be a white male from the South or West, preferably with experience as a governor. (Townhall.com)
Democrats even today shiver at the memory of William Jennings Bryan, another implacable foe of Charles Darwin, who ran on a silver platform in the late 19th century. George Wallace, a redneck governor out of Alabama, ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1968, and Richard Nixon was terrified that he would steal enough votes to throw the race to the Democrat, Hubert Humphrey. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
He's more like William Jennings Bryan than like Ronald Reagan ... He's more like William Jennings Bryan than like Ronald Reagan. (Townhall.com)
William Jennings Bryan was, and he died in 1925. This is an OLD struggle. (Human Events Online)
"But most Americans don't like class-conscious politics. That is one of the things that hurt William Jennings Bryan, and it hurts candidates who say the kinds of things that Edwards says."Populism has been a part of the language of American politics at least since Andrew Jackson ran against the banking industry in the early 1800s, said Kazin. Bryan ran as an anti-Wall street populist around the turn of the century. (News & Observer)
Its annual meetings were home to some of the nation's most prominent public speakers and social reformers, including William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ward Beecher and Frederick Douglass. Dennis Yusko can be reached at 581-8438 or by e-mail at dyusko@timesunion. (Albany Times Union)
A century ago, in the 1908 campaign, William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, was attacked as an apostate by supporters of William Jennings Bryan, an evangelical Christian. "Think of the United States with a President who does not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, but looks upon our immaculate Savior as a low, cunning imposter!" The Pentecostal Herald said in July 1908. (MSNBC -- Politics)
wrote on Dec 8, 2007 10:24 AM:" This 'Johnny' sounds like a human being -- re: Harsch are there TWO 'Johnnys' as there are TWO 'Bugs'? Are all four split personalities? Are the Johnnys and Bugs' quadruple personalities of the same individual? Is this the 'Three [Four] Faces of Eve'? Oh and by the way: 'BRYAN' -- it was William Jennings BRYAN; 'BRYANT' was William Cullen, editor of the New York Herald and a major American poet of the mid-19th century. And 'Dorothy' is a three-syllabic 'twisting'... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
"FacingUp.org" to strengthen public voice on federal budget concerns throughout and beyond presidential election season NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If the Internet had been around when William Jennings Bryan said, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved," he might have next exhorted the crowd to go online and make their voices heard at FacingUp. org. (PR Newswire)
Another pious populist who was annoyed by Darwin -- William Jennings Bryan -- argued that William Howard Taft, his opponent in the 1908 presidential election, was unfit to be president because he was a Unitarian, a persuasion sometimes defined as the belief that there is at most one God. The electorate chose to run the risk of entrusting the presidency to someone skeptical about the doctrine of the Trinity. (Townhall.com)
William Jennings Bryan, the orator who once ran for president, hawked real estate lots here in the 1920s at this city's famous Venetian Pool, a onetime rock quarry turned Italian-style public pool ... Coral Gables' Venetian Pool, where William Jennings Bryan hawked real estate lots in the 1920s, is a stop on most area bus tours. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
htm) that transformed Baum's book (not the film) from an innocent fairy tale to a symbol-laden allegory about the Populist movement and its leader, William Jennings Bryan, whose campaign platform advocated that silver should be added to the nation's gold standard. To recap just a few of his points: the Tin Man, who was flesh and blood before the Wicked Witch of the East enchanted his axe, represents the simple labourer exploited and overwhelmed by evil Eastern influences, such as bankers and... (Scotsman)
In the age of bosses, that used to be routine: Nixon, Stevenson, Dewey, William Jennings Bryan. But now, candidates have to appeal directly to the voters, and a loser from four years ago seems about as fresh as a radio hit from the same year. (Forbes)
" "Inherit the Wind" is the fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. In that trial, a young teacher from a small town in Tennessee was put on trial for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in his biology class. The Baltimore Sun covered the trial, which was defended on both sides by prominent lawyers. Sophomore Grant Brothers, 16, plays the teacher, Bertram Cates (based on John Scopes). "He's a nerdy school teacher," Brothers said. He teaches evolution as it is found in... (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
William Jennings Bryan, for example, opened the door to this possibility when on the witness stand at the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial (1925). Even so, a conservative, evangelical loyalty to the Bible can't fully jettison a literal reading of Genesis. (Suite101.com)
" It was the same convention when Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the KKK, was honored for his leadership. Barton's book notes that in 1868, Congress heard testimony from election worker Robert Flournoy, who confessed while he was canvassing the state of Mississippi in support of the 13th and 14th Amendments, he could find only one black, in a population of 444,000 in the state, who admitted being a Democrat. Nor is Barton the only person to raise such questions. In 2005,... (WorldNetDaily)
Herndon, who was a navigator-bombardier in the Army Air Forces, died Oct. 7 of pneumonia at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn-VA Medical Center in Columbia, S.C., his family said. Historians have called the April 18, 1942, attack a key event in World War II that pushed the Japanese to make strategic errors and lifted U.S. spirits when there had been little to cheer about during the early days of the conflict. (Los Angeles Times)
Theodore Roosevelt defended William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, from religious attacks by supporters of William Jennings Bryan. The founders were not anti-religion. (International Herald Tribune)
The great political orator William Jennings Bryan once defined eloquence as "thought on fire." To become a truly confident and effective speaker, you want to put yourself on fire for what you believe in. Admittedly, this is easier if you're delivering a sermon, Sunday School lesson, or political speech at a fundraiser. (Suite101.com)
The first fund-raiser was a lecture by William Jennings Bryan, which netted $101 profit. They asked for a room in the City Hall but the firemen had been using it and did not want to give it up. (Abilene Recorder Chronicle)
The phrase is credited to Nebraska politician and statesman William Jennings Bryan, but the words might as well be inscribed on a chain around the neck of Nebraska senior quarterback Sam Keller. Two years ago, while starring at Arizona State, Keller disappeared into halftime at Sun Devil Stadium with a 21-3 lead over No. 1 USC.. (Los Angeles Times)
Then, in 1896, the young Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan chose to travel around and speak to audiences from the backs of railroad cars. In succeeding decades, nominees started hitting the campaign trail. (Boston Globe)
Other celebrity visitors have included actress Lily Langtry, financier Bernard Baruch, tycoon Diamond Jim Brady, politician/orator William Jennings Bryan, California Gov. Edmund "Pat" Brown and movie stars Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Anthony Hopkins. "Most celebrities stay at the Ahwahnee Hotel," says Robin Stefanik, lead clerk at the Wa- wona's main desk. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Clarence Darrow, the celebrity defense attorney, and William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential loser and evangelical orator, headlined the opposing legal teams. Scopes lost his case, and Bryan lost his reputation when he agreed to be cross-examined by Darrow on the literal meaning of the Bible. (Time.com)
The revised view from here: Waltons career began when he scooped his colleagues with an advance copy of the famous cross of gold speech by William Jennings Bryan. If he sees Johanns as candidate under specific circumstances, take it to the bank. (Nebraska Statepaper)
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous cross of gold speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1918, 101 people were killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tenn. (MSNBC -- Race)
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination on the strength of his epic "Cross of Gold'' speech at a Democratic convention. If Mr. Obama were to win this year's nomination, his Boston address would find a place alongside Bryan's "Cross of Gold" as a political catalyst -- though Mr. Obama's speaking style bears little resemblance to Bryan's fiery 19th century rhetoric. Emphasis on unifying On the stump, there is a cerebral element to his speaking style, heartfelt but restrained.... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Attacks against Darwin's supposed heretical ways flared brightly at the 1925 Scopes trial over a Tennessee law that forbade teaching "that man has descended from a lower order of animals." At the trial, politician William Jennings Bryan called evolution a threat to religion. More recently, biologist Richard Dawkins of England's Oxford University wrote in his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker that "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.". (USA Today -- Tech)
Douglas MacArthur s ideal for Japan was land reform to create a class of yeomen farmers, a free market economy based on small and medium-size producers, along with a welfare state, labor unions and women s suffrage policies that William Jennings Bryan and many Progressives and even New Dealers would have approved heartily. He thought Japan was feudal , and the New Dealer Theodore Cohen had the general pegged correctly as a 19th Century populist in the Jefferson-Jackson tradition who would have... (Suite101.com)
William Jennings Bryan, with his populist and evangelical message addressing topics such as temperance, was the most popular Chautauqua speaker, until his death in 1925. Music also played an important part in early Chautauquas. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
William Jennings Bryan offered a simple but eloquent defense of openness: "The government being the people's business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view." But that won't happen without a good law to ensure it. Right now, we have no such workable law. (Black Hills Pioneer, SD)
In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement with President Wilson over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1953, the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Thompson Co., ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks. (MSNBC -- Race)
In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement with President Wilson over US handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1953, the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Thompson Co., ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks. (KWTX.com, TX)
The play's authors - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee - give their fictional town of Hillsboro a villainous fire-and-brimstone preacher, a kangaroo courtroom and a prosecutor who is a crude version of William Jennings Bryan. The play almost solicits audience jeers. (International Herald Tribune)
At the ribbon cutting, Ken Ham, the rugged-faced CEO and president of the nonprofit ministry that built the museum, tells an enthusiastic crowd that the Creation Museum will undo the damage done 82 years ago when Clarence Darrow put William Jennings Bryan on the stand in the famous in Dayton, Tenn. "It was the first time the Bible was ridiculed by the media in America, and that was a downward turning point for Christendom," Ham says. (Salon)
Some of those signatures bear the names of President Herbert Hoover, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, pianist and composer Ignacy Paderewski and actors Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Deitrich, Douglas Fairbanks, Jean Harlow, Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino. Cecil B. DeMille stayed at the inn while filming his 1923 silent epic he Ten Commandments in the Guadalupe Dunes. (Santa Maria Times)
Publishers Weekly has praised 1920 as "a rousing chronicle. . . Pietrusza . . . adds color and dimension with smart discussions of Prohibition, women's suffrage, immigration, civil rights, the League of Nations and labor strife, and he offers animated portraits of William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Chapman Catt, Henry Ford, Marcus Garvey, Sacco and Vanzetti, William Randolph Hearst, H.L. Mencken and many others. A hugely fascinating episode in American history, told with insight and great humor, by... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
It was Harry Truman who once said, "This is a real convention." "The convention started in 1908 after William Jennings Bryan spoke to the Washington and Lee student body," Jacob Geiger, convention press chairman, tells Inside the Beltway. "Past speakers include Harry Truman, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter." This year's keynote speaker will be 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and retired Gen. Wesley Clark, whose kickoff address is set for 8 p.m. May 25 on Lee Chapel Lawn. (Washington Times, DC)
Right-wing Christians even succeeded in forcing some school districts to teach biblical accounts of the creation as "alternative theories" to evolution, shocking those who thought that the victory of science over mythology had already been established with Clarence Darrow's humiliation of William Jennings Bryan at the. This tactic turned right-wing Christians into a key source of both votes and money for the Republican Party. (OhmyNews International)
The first was William Jennings Bryan in 1915, because he feared that Woodrow Wilson was leading the nation into war by his belligerent policy toward Germany's use of submarines against British shipping during World War I.. The second was Cyrus Vance, who opposed Jimmy Carter's quixotic and ill-fated effort in 1980 to send a helicopter team to Tehran to rescue diplomats held hostage in the U.S. Embassy by student radicals. (CBS News)
When longtime incumbents, especially conservatives, suddenly start sounding like William Jennings Bryan, watch your wallet. Fear of millionaires is not an argument against reform; it's an excuse. (Newsday -- Opinion)
"The people of Nebraska are for free silver, and I am for free silver," proclaimed William Jennings Bryan ... "The people of Nebraska are for free silver, and I am for free silver," proclaimed William Jennings Bryan. (Townhall.com)
Edward Asner, left, and John de Lancie star as William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow respectively in 'The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial ... William Jennings Bryan - Edward Asner Clarence Darrow - John de Lancie John Thomas Scopes - Matthew Patrick Davis Dudley Field Malone - Harry Groener Attorney General Stewart - Geoffrey Lower Judge John Raulston - Jerry Hardin Narrator - Marnie Mosiman Howard Morgan - Michael Rugnetta Arthur Garfield Hayes - Kenneth Alan Williams ... The Great Tennessee... (Variety)
12:53 AM PDT, April 16, 2007. Staunchly Republican Nebraska finds itself at the center of Congress' debate on the Iraq war. (Los Angeles Times)
Political winds shift on prairie - Los Angeles Times. 12:53 AM PDT, April 16, 2007. (Los Angeles Times)
Moberly was attracting fairs and other special events including speakers like William Jennings Bryan and Sam Jones, an evangelist like Billy Sunday. There were fast freights, passenger trains, horse drawn wagons and the Wabash shops were turning out brand new steam engines. (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
Also honored: William Jennings Bryan, best noted for his crusade against Darwinism, and Katharine Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post. Looks as if "the right background" is doing things the Senate Faculty agrees with. (The Ledger)
Sadly, that includes the estimable Mr. Dennehy, the two-time Tony winner who plays Drummonds formidable adversary, Matthew Harrison Brady, a character inspired by the grandiloquent politician William Jennings Bryan. This glaring imbalance means that Wind never musters much more velocity than that of a drugstore fan. (New York Times)
A repeat presidential candidate and devout Bible scholar, prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady (Dennehy) was the doppelganger of William Jennings Bryan. Spearheading the media circus that invades the God-fearing town of Hillsboro is cynical Baltimore newspaperman E.K. Hornbeck (Denis O'Hare), based on H.L. Mencken. (Variety)
The courtroom fight was a face-off between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Though the conflict between evolution and fundamentalism is always a touchy topic, 'Inherit the Wind' was written to warn against the dangers of McCarthyism, and its themes of power and corruption continue to ignite into the present. (Newsday -- New York City)
It was the so-called "Monkey Trial" that sensationally pitted the fundamentalist politico William Jennings Bryan against famed liberal trial lawyer Clarence S. Darrow. Lawrence and Lee milk the situation for all it's worth. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Dennehy resists the temptations of cartoonish Bible-thumping as Matthew Harrison Brady - the fictional counterpart to William Jennings Bryan - the fire-breathing prosecutor who leads the town against the subversion he pronounces as "evil-ution.". With their "just folks" suspenders and baggy trousers, the stars move heavily, as if carrying boulder-sized conundrums on their backs. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Matthew Harrison Brady is the playwrights' version of William Jennings Bryan, prosecuting attorney. Bob Price plays Brady with a handkerchief, a swagger and his deep radio voice. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
It starred Asner as William Jennings Bryan ; he's reprising the role. At the Institute of Politics, Harvard, 79 JFK St., Cambridge. (Boston Globe)
It's a good-but-not-great sell for a crowd that wants William Jennings Bryan, not Abraham Lincoln. Most of the other candidates do no better. (CBS News)
To describe the economic philosophy behind his run, Shreve repeats a quotation from the 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech by William Jennings Bryan: "The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.". In embracing a more active role for government in economic affairs, Shreve challenges what he says has become a dogmatic belief among policymakers that government involvement must be... (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
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