environment. The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things, which provide conditions for development and growth as well as of danger and damage.
Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949â1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957â1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
William Jennings Bryan, seated at left, is being interrogated by attorney Clarence Seward Darrow during the July 20, 1925 trial of State of Tennessee versus John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tenn. Scopes is on trial for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.