| 1923-02-15 | Charles Forbes Resigns Veterans Bureau Amid Massive Corruption Scandal Charles Forbes · Warren G. Harding · Charles F. Cramer | 3 | |
| 1923-01-01 | Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · Sigmund Freud | 3 | |
| 1922-11-01 | Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power E.W. Scripps · Roy W. Howard · Robert Scripps · +1 | 4 |
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| 1922-09-01 | Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding · Railroad Labor Board | 3 |
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| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · +1 | 4 |
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| 1922-05-15 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 |
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| 1922-04-15 | Senate Initiates Investigation of Teapot Dome Secret Oil Leases John Kendrick · Robert La Follette | 2 | |
| 1922-04-07 | Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding Albert Fall · Harry Sinclair | 2 | |
| 1922-01-01 | Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion Samuel Insull · J.P. Morgan · Van Sweringen Brothers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1921-12-19 | Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · Arizona State Legislature | 3 |
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| 1921-11-30 | Interior Secretary Albert Fall Receives $100,000 Cash Bribe from Edward Doheny Albert Fall · Edward Doheny | 2 | |
| 1921-11-23 | Revenue Act of 1921 Begins Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy Andrew Mellon · Warren G. Harding · Republican Party | 3 | |
| 1921-09-15 | DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control Pierre du Pont · Alfred P. Sloan · John J. Raskob · +2 | 5 | |
| 1921-08-25 | Battle of Blair Mountain - Largest Armed Labor Uprising in US History United Mine Workers of America · Sheriff Don Chafin · Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency · +1 | 4 | |
| 1921-05-31 | Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall · Edwin Denby | 3 | |
| 1921-05-19 | Emergency Quota Act Establishes First Numerical Immigration Limits Based on National Origin Warren G. Harding · Albert Johnson · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision Mahlon Pitney · U.S. Supreme Court · International Association of Machinists · +1 | 4 |
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| 1921-01-01 | American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Steel · +3 | 6 | |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Frederick Katzmann · +2 | 5 |
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| 1920-08-18 | Tennessee Becomes 36th State to Ratify 19th Amendment as Women Win Right to Vote Harry T. Burn · Febb E. Burn · Tennessee General Assembly · +2 | 5 | |
| 1920-06-05 | Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today Wesley Jones · U.S. Congress · American Shipping Industry · +1 | 4 | |
| 1920-06-01 | Farm Crisis Begins as Agricultural Prices Collapse While Debt Remains Andrew Mellon · Federal Reserve · Farm Bureau · +1 | 4 | |
| 1920-05-28 | 'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids Felix Frankfurter · Roscoe Pound · Zechariah Chafee · +3 | 6 |
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| 1920-03-01 | Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. Steel Antitrust Case, Ruling Size Alone Not Illegal - Enforcement Ends Until 1945 U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph McKenna · Justice Day · +2 | 5 |
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| 1920-01-02 | Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 | |
| 1920-01-01 | Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics William Randolph Hearst · Hearst Communications | 2 |
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| 1919-11-11 | American Legion Founded with Corporate Backing as Anti-Radical Force Theodore Roosevelt Jr. · Hamilton Fish III · George White · +1 | 4 | |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice Louis Brandeis · +1 | 4 | |
| 1919-11-07 | Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark" A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | 6 |
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| 1919-09-22 | Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids American Federation of Labor · United States Steel Corporation · Elbert H. Gary · +2 | 5 |
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| 1919-08-01 | Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 |
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| 1919-07-27 | Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed Chicago Police Department · Irish American athletic clubs · Black Great Migration communities · +2 | 5 |
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| 1919-06-04 | Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Woodrow Wilson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1919-03-03 | Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Charles Schenck · +1 | 4 |
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| 1918-09-14 | Eugene V. Debs Sentenced to Ten Years for Antiwar Speech, Runs for President from Prison Eugene V. Debs · Socialist Party of America · President Woodrow Wilson · +1 | 4 |
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| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart U.S. Supreme Court · Justice William R. Day · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 3 |
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| 1918-05-16 | Sedition Act of 1918 Expands Espionage Act to Criminalize Anti-Government Speech U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. Postmaster General | 3 | |
| 1918-01-09 | Wilson Reverses Position and Endorses Women's Suffrage Amendment After Prison Brutality Exposed Woodrow Wilson · Alice Paul · National Woman's Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Mahlon Pitney · United Mine Workers of America · +1 | 4 |
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| 1917-11-14 | Night of Terror as 33 Suffragists Brutalized at Occoquan Workhouse by Prison Guards Lucy Burns · Dora Lewis · Alice Cosu · +3 | 6 | |
| 1917-11-05 | Buchanan v. Warley: Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Zoning, Property Rights Trump Civil Rights Supreme Court of the United States · NAACP · Moorfield Storey · +1 | 4 |
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| 1917-08-01 | Frank Little Lynched: IWW Executive Board Member Murdered by Vigilantes in Butte Frank Little · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · +1 | 4 |
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| 1917-07-28 | War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion Bernard Baruch · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department · +1 | 4 |
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| 1917-07-12 | Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners Phelps Dodge Corporation · Walter Douglas · Sheriff Harry Wheeler · +2 | 5 |
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| 1917-06-22 | First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · +2 | 5 | |
| 1917-06-15 | Espionage Act Signed: Wilson Criminalizes Antiwar Speech, Targets IWW Labor Organizers and Socialists President Woodrow Wilson · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Eugene V. Debs · +3 | 6 |
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| 1917-06-15 | Wilson-Era Wartime Executive Architecture: Espionage Act, War Powers Statutes Build Permanent Emergency-Authority Template Woodrow Wilson · Bernard Baruch · Herbert Hoover · +3 | 6 |
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| 1917-06-08 | Speculator Mine Fire Kills 168 Workers: Anaconda Safety Failures Trigger Butte Strike and Repression Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Metal Mine Workers' Union · +1 | 4 |
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| 1917-04-20 | Justice Department Authorizes American Protective League, 250,000-Member Vigilante Surveillance Network Thomas Gregory · A. M. Briggs · Bureau of Investigation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1917-04-13 | Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · +2 | 5 |
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| 1917-01-16 | British Intercept Zimmermann Telegram, Demonstrating Value of Signals Intelligence to U.S. Policy Arthur Zimmermann · British Admiralty Room 40 · Woodrow Wilson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1917-01-10 | National Woman's Party Begins Historic White House Picketing as Silent Sentinels Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1916-11-14 | Inez Milholland Dies During Western Suffrage Tour Becoming Martyr for the Cause Inez Milholland · National Woman's Party · Alice Paul | 3 | |
| 1916-11-05 | Everett Massacre: Lumber Company Vigilantes Kill IWW Members at City Dock Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Everett Commercial Club · Sheriff Donald McRae · +1 | 4 |
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| 1916-09-03 | Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers President Woodrow Wilson · Representative William C. Adamson · Railroad Labor Brotherhoods · +2 | 5 | |
| 1916-09-01 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson | 2 | |
| 1916-07-30 | German Sabotage Destroys Black Tom Munitions Depot, Exposes U.S. Counterintelligence Vacuum German Imperial Government · Franz von Papen · Franz von Rintelen · +2 | 5 | |
| 1916-01-01 | Corporate Interests Mobilize Systematic Opposition to Women's Suffrage to Protect Profits Liquor Industry · Textile Manufacturers · Railroad companies · +1 | 4 | |
| 1915-11-25 | KKK Revived at Stone Mountain Cross Burning: Simmons Coordinates with Birth of a Nation Premiere William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan · D.W. Griffith | 3 |
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| 1915-08-17 | Leo Frank Lynched by Antisemitic Mob After Governor Commutes Sentence: Only Jewish Lynching in U.S. History Leo Frank · William J. Simmons · Knights of Mary Phagan · +1 | 4 | |
| 1915-06-21 | Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · Oklahoma Legislature · +1 | 4 |
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| 1915-05-07 | Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed RMS Lusitania · German Navy · British Government · +2 | 5 |
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| 1915-02-08 | Birth of a Nation Premieres in Los Angeles: Groundbreaking Film Glorifies KKK, Depicts Black Americans as Evil D.W. Griffith · Woodrow Wilson · William J. Simmons · +1 | 4 |
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| 1915-01-25 | Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre John D. Rockefeller Jr. · Frank Walsh · Commission on Industrial Relations · +1 | 4 |
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| 1914-10-15 | Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta President Woodrow Wilson · Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. · Samuel Gompers · +2 | 5 |
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| 1914-09-26 | Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency Woodrow Wilson · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Congress | 3 |
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| 1914-08-01 | JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · French government · +3 | 6 |
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| 1914-04-20 | Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children Colorado National Guard · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company · United Mine Workers of America · +3 | 6 | |
| 1913-12-23 | Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight President Woodrow Wilson · Carter Glass · Robert Latham Owen · +2 | 5 |
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| 1913-10-03 | Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment President Woodrow Wilson · Oscar Underwood · Democratic Party | 3 |
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| 1913-08-03 | Wheatland Hop Riot: IWW Farmworkers Protest Conditions, Deputies Kill Four, Leaders Framed Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Blackie Ford · Herman Suhr · +2 | 5 |
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| 1913-04-11 | Wilson Administration Segregates Federal Government: Jim Crow Comes to Washington President Woodrow Wilson · Postmaster General Albert Burleson · Treasury Secretary William McAdoo · +3 | 6 | |
| 1913-04-08 | 17th Amendment Ratified: Direct Election of Senators Ends State Legislature Appointments and Deadlock Corruption Connecticut State Legislature · U.S. Congress · Progressive Movement | 3 | |
| 1913-04-01 | JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress JP Morgan · Pujo Committee · Samuel Untermyer · +1 | 4 | |
| 1913-03-03 | Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington Attacked by Hostile Crowds as Police Stand By Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · Inez Milholland · +2 | 5 | |
| 1913-02-25 | Paterson Silk Strike: IWW Leads 25,000 Workers in Five-Month Struggle Against Textile Manufacturers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Big Bill Haywood · Elizabeth Gurley Flynn · +3 | 6 |
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| 1913-02-03 | 16th Amendment Ratified: Federal Income Tax Established to Shift Burden from Middle Class to Wealthy Delaware State Legislature · Philander C. Knox · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending Montana voters · William A. Clark · F. Augustus Heinze · +3 | 6 |
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| 1912-08-07 | Theodore Roosevelt Forms Bull Moose Party After GOP Convention Theft: Republican Split Ensures Wilson Victory Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1912-06-13 | DuPont Powder Trust Ordered Dissolved, But Family Control and Geographic Proximity Limit Effectiveness U.S. District Court for Delaware · E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company · DuPont family · +2 | 5 | |
| 1912-05-16 | Pujo Committee Hearings Begin: Money Trust Investigation Exposes JP Morgan Control of $22 Billion Through 341 Interlocking Directorships Arsène Pujo · Samuel Untermyer · JP Morgan · +3 | 6 | |
| 1912-04-18 | Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Mine War: West Virginia Declares Martial Law, Mother Jones Imprisoned United Mine Workers of America · Mary Harris Jones · Governor William Glasscock · +2 | 5 |
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| 1912-01-12 | Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Joseph Ettor · Arturo Giovannitti · +1 | 4 |
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| 1911-05-29 | Supreme Court Orders American Tobacco Breakup, Applying Rule of Reason to Tobacco Trust U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · American Tobacco Company · +1 | 4 |
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| 1911-05-15 | Standard Oil Breakup's Paradox - Rockefeller's Wealth Triples as Fragmented Companies Reconsolidate John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · U.S. Supreme Court | 3 | |
| 1911-05-15 | Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil Breakup in Landmark Antitrust Decision U.S. Supreme Court · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · +1 | 4 |
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| 1911-03-25 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146, Exposes Corporate Negligence Triangle Waist Company · New York Factory Investigating Commission · Frances Perkins · +1 | 4 |
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| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · Frank Morrison · +3 | 6 |
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| 1911-01-16 | Aldrich Plan for Banking Reform Submitted: Secret Jekyll Island Meeting Proposes Wall Street-Controlled Central Bank Nelson Aldrich · JP Morgan interests · Paul Warburg · +2 | 5 | |
| 1910-06-18 | Mann-Elkins Act Strengthens Railroad Regulation, Expands ICC Authority to Telecommunications President William Howard Taft · Stephen Benton Elkins · James Robert Mann · +1 | 4 |
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| 1910-03-19 | Insurgent Republicans Revolt Against Speaker Cannon: 29-Hour Session Strips Autocratic Powers, Splits GOP Joseph Cannon · George William Norris · President William Howard Taft · +1 | 4 |
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| 1909-08-05 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party President William Howard Taft · Nelson Aldrich · Progressive Republicans · +1 | 4 |
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| 1909-03-04 | Roosevelt Leaves Office After 44 Antitrust Suits, Revealing Progressive Era Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · J.P. Morgan · +2 | 5 |
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| 1908-07-26 | Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · +2 | 5 | |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis · Curt Muller · +2 | 5 | |
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller · United Hatters of North America · +3 | 6 |
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| 1908-01-27 | Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice John Marshall Harlan · William Adair · +1 | 4 |
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| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Elbert H. Gary · +4 | 7 | |
| 1907-07-19 | Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Justice · American Tobacco Company · +1 | 4 |
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| 1906-06-30 | Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act Theodore Roosevelt · Harvey Washington Wiley · Upton Sinclair · +1 | 4 | |