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#World-War-I

Events indexed under #World-War-I — 7 entries in the record.

7 events From Aug 1, 1914 To Apr 12, 1934 Open in filter view →
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1914 · 1 event1915 · 1 event1917 · 3 events1919 · 1 event1934 · 1 event19141934
DateEventLanesStatus
1934-04-12Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
Gerald Nye · U.S. Senate · J.P. Morgan Jr. · Pierre du Pont · +2
confirmed
1919-03-03Schenck 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 · Socialist Party of America
confirmed
1917-07-28War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion
Bernard Baruch · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department · Navy Department
confirmed
1917-06-15Espionage Act Signed: Wilson Criminalizes Antiwar Speech, Targets IWW Labor Organizers and Socialists
President Woodrow Wilson · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Eugene V. Debs · Victor L. Berger · +2
confirmed
1917-04-13Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine
President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · Secretary of War Newton Baker · +1
confirmed
1915-05-07Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed
RMS Lusitania · German Navy · British Government · JP Morgan & Co. · +1
confirmed
1914-08-01JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit
JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · French government · Thomas Lamont · +2
confirmed