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— 7 entries in the record.
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Aug 1, 1914
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Apr 12, 1934
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1914 · 1 event
1915 · 1 event
1917 · 3 events
1919 · 1 event
1934 · 1 event
1914
1934
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1934-04-12
Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
3 src
U.S. Senate
confirmed
1919-03-03
Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions
3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
confirmed
1917-07-28
War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion
3 src
Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department
confirmed
1917-06-15
Espionage Act Signed: Wilson Criminalizes Antiwar Speech, Targets IWW Labor Organizers and Socialists
4 src
Woodrow Wilson · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Eugene V. Debs
confirmed
1917-04-13
Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine
3 src
Woodrow Wilson
confirmed
1915-05-07
Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed
4 src
British Government · JP Morgan & Co.
confirmed
1914-08-01
JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit
4 src
JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · Woodrow Wilson
confirmed