Monkey Trial involving Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes, who was charged
with teaching evolution, instead of creationism. His main opponent was William Jennings Bryan, former three-time presidential candidate. Despite the widespread view that Darrow had won the contest, Scopes was found guilty.
7 JENNINGS RANDOLPH Jennings Randolph (1902-1998) was graduated from Salem College in 1924.
As a young man, he, like
Napoleon Hill, worked fora time as a journalist. He served seven terms as a US. Congressman from West Virginia (1933 to 1947) and four full terms as United States Senator (1958 to 1985). Fondly remembered as the last of the New Deal Democrats he gained renown as chairman of the Senate’s Public Works Committee, and he was the legislative father of the National Air and Space Museum in
Washington, DC. After his death,
his Senate colleague, Robert C.
Byrd, recalled Randolph’s love of flight:
On November 6, 1948, with a professional pilot at thecontrols, Jennings…flew from Morgantown, West Virginia, toWashington National Airport in a propeller plane fueled withgasoline made from coal. Now, that was just like JenningsRandolph—out there pioneering, not only in flight, but alsoin the use of fuel in that plane that had a West Virginiasource—coal. Certainly, that project was an act of faith, forwhich many remember Senator Randolph.Randolph authored the 26th Amendment to the Constitution that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. He was considered the father of the
Appalachian
Regional Commission, and one of his last major acts was to sponsor legislation preserving it. He served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Napoleon Hill Foundation,
established in 1962 by Hill and his wife, Annie Lou. Randolph died of pneumonia at a retirement nursing home in St. Louis on May 8, at the age of 96, and was buried in Seventh-Day Baptist Cemetery in
Salem, West Virginia, the town of his birth. He had the distinction of being the last surviving person (non-Hill family member) mentioned by name in the original edition (1937) of
Think and Grow Rich!