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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential
Elections, 1876-1920 - chart
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1890s-1920s:
Various Documents on the "New Woman"
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1914:
Excerpts from Hunter's Civic Biology
- What the students in John Scopes' class
read about evolution
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early 1920s:
“Speak, Garvey, Speak!” - a
Follower Recalls a Marcus Garvey Rally
(audio file)
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1920s?:
Klu Klux Klan - photo
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1920s:
An Assortment of Song Lyrics from the Era
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1920s:
Photo of Detroit police
inspecting equipment found in a clandestine
underground brewery during the Prohibition
era.
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1920:
Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer Makes “The Case against the Reds”
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1920:
"As Gag Rulers Would Have It" - political
cartoon about the Sedition Act from the
Jersey City Journal (2/7)
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1920:
“The Most Brainiest Man -”
The Red Scare and Free Speech in Connecticut
(in The Nation, 4/17)
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1920:
"The Case Against the Reds" - J. Mitchell
Palmer in Forum
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1920:
"Cleaning the Nest" - political cartoon from
the New York Evening World (1/17)
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1920:
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (sister of
Theodore) - speech in which she supports the
Republican ticket of Senator Harding and
Governor Coolidge
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1920:
The Economic Consequences of the Peace -
John Maynard Keynes
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1920:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy. Speaking of those who
fell in battle
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1920:
Governor Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) - campaign
speech ("Law and Order")
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1920:
Governor Coolidge (R-MA) - speech on equal
rights
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1920:
Governor James M. Cox (D-OH) in a speech on
World War I
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1920:
"The Most Brainiest Man" - article in
The
Nation (4/17)
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1920:
Senator Warren G. Harding (R-OH) - campaign
speech ("Readjustment")
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1920:
"The Last Few Buttons Are Always the
Hardest" - political cartoon about women's
suffrage from the St. Louis Star (3/27)
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1920:
The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
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1920:
Rounding Up the "Reds" in a
Nation-Wide Campaign Against Revolutionaries
in the
Outlook
(1/20)
originally from the International -
photo
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1920:
“Save Sacco and Vanzetti” -
The Defense Committee’s Plea
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1920:
Starving for
Women’s Suffrage - “I Am Not Strong after
These Weeks”
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1920:
"Swat the Fly, But Use Common Sense!" -
political cartoon about the Sedition Act
from the Newark News (3/6)
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1920:
Volstead Act
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1921:
“Another View of the Tulsa Riots” - Amy
Comstock in Survey (7/2)
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1921:
"Big Ideas from Big Business" - Edward Earle
Purinton
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1921:
“Business . . . the Salvation of the World”-
Celebrating Big Business - Edward E.
Purinton, “Business as the Savior of the
Community,” Independent (4/16)
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1921:
Carrie Chapman Catt, "A Teapot in a
Tempest," The Woman Citizen
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1921:
“Defending Greenwood”- A
Survivor Recalls the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
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1921:
Equal Rights Amendment
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1921:
“The Eruption of Tulsa” - Walter White in
Nation (6/29)
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1921:
“If You Believe
the Negro Has a Soul” - “Back to Africa”
with Marcus Garvey
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1921: Immigration Act
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1921:
Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding
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1921:
Letters from College
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1921:
“The New Negro. When He’s Hit, He Hits
Back!” - Rollin Lynde Hartt in
Independent, (1/15)
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1921:
Selections from
[F]BI File on Endicott, Broome County, N.Y.
Radicals
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1921:
"The New Anti-Feminist Campaign" by Mary G. Kilbreth in
The Woman Patriot 6/15)
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1921:
Treaty Between the U. S., the British
Empire, France, and Japan, Signed at
Washington (12/13)
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1921:
Woman and the New Race - Margaret Sanger
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1921:
Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, "Manifesto on Disarmament"
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1921, 1925:
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I Too" -
poems by Langston Hughes
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1921-1927:
“I Bobbed My Hair and Then—,”
Ladies Home
Journal - Irene Castle Treman, October
1921, 124; Mary Garden “Why I Bobbed My
Hair,” Pictorial Review, April 1927,
8; Mary Pickford, “Why I Have Not Bobbed
Mine,” Pictorial Review, April 1927
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1922:
American Indian Myth Poems - Hartley
Alexander
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1922:
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company
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1922:
“The Black Star Line” -
W. E. B. Du
Bois in Crisis (September)
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1922:
Debunking
Intelligence Experts - Walter Lippmann
Speaks Out
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1922:
“Do Insects Think? Some Data on the
Reasoning Power of the Wasp” - Robert
Benchley, Life 80 (8/3)
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1922:
“The Facts Must Be Faced” -
Intelligence Is Destiny
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1922:
"A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" - article in
Outlook Magazine (12/6)
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1922:
"If We Must Die" - poem by Claude McKay
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1922:
In Defense of IQ Testing-
Lewis M. Terman Replies to Critics
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1922:
"Modernism in Architecture" - Lewis Mumford
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1922:
Peace and Bread in Time of War - Jane
Addams
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1922:
“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” -
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Christian Work
102 (6/10)
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1922:
“The Problem” and “Family
Histories” - Charles Johnson Analyzes the
Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
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1922:
"Threats to Christian Civilization" -
political cartoon
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1922:
Washington Treaty in Relation
to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases
in Warfare (2/6)
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1922:
"You and Your Laundry" - pamphlet by
Christine Frederick
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1923:
Automobile Advertisements - from
Collier's Magazine
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1923:
“The Benevolent Brotherhood of Baseball
Bugs” - Edgar F. Wolfe,
Literary Digest
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1923:
“Cotton Belt Blues”- Lizzie Miles’s Blues
Song
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1923:
“The Crowd at the Ball Park” - William
Carlos Williams in
Dial
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1923:
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads" - cover of
Judge (1/26)
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1923:
“I Am Only a
Piece of Machinery” - Housewives Analyze
Their Problems
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1923:
“The Madness of Marcus Garvey” - Robert W.
Bagnall in Messenger (March)
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1923:
“New York’s World-Beating New Stadium,”
Literary Digest (4/28)
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1923:
"The Negro's Greatest Enemy" - Marcus Garvey
in Current History (Sept.)
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1923:
Rosewood Report
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1923:
U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind
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1924:
"Authority and Religious Liberty" Speech -
Calvin Coolidge
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1924:
“The Black Star
Line”- Singing a Song of Garveyism
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1924:
Carrie Chapman Catt, "Poison Propaganda,"
The Woman Citizen
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1924:
Comprehensive Immigration Act
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1924:
Covenant of the League of Nations
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1924:
Immigration Act of 1924
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1924:
Indian Citizenship Act
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1924:
Lucia Maxwell, "Spider Web chart: The
Socialist-Pacifist Movement in America Is an
Absolutely Fundamental and Integral Part of
International Socialism," The Dearborn
Independent, XXIV, 3/22/1924, 11
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1924:
Mercy for Leopold and Loeb - speech by
Clarence Darrow (Aug.)
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1924:
Robert H. Clancy, a Republican congressman
from Detroit with a large immigrant
constituency, defended immigrants
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1924:
“The Senate’s Declaration of War,”
Japan
Times and Mail (4/19)
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1924:
“Shut the Door”
- A Senator Speaks for Immigration
Restriction
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1925?:
American Imperialism: The
Menace of the Greatest Capitalist World
Power
By Jay Lovestone (Chicago: Workers Party of
America, n.d. [1925])
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1925:
“The Ancient Days Have Not
Departed” - Calvin Coolidge on the
Spirituality of Commerce
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1925:
“The
Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for
Sex and Race Emancipation” - Elise Johnson
McDougald in Survey (3/1)
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1925:
Fighting to Death for the Bible
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William Jennings Bryan
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1925:
"Flapper Jane" - article in
The New
Republic by Bruce Bliven (9/9)
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1925:
Gitlow v. New York
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1925:
Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge
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1925:
The Klan Manual
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1925:
Seventy Years of Life and
Labor - Samuel
Gompers (Ch. 26: "My Economical
Philosophy")
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1925:
“Spunk” - Zora Neale Hurston in Alain Locke,
ed., The New Negro
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1925:
The Tennessee Anti-Evolution Statute
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1925:
Transcript from the Proceeding of the Scopes
Trial
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1925:
"White Houses" - poem by Claude McKay
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1925-27:
Who Was Shut Out
- Immigration Quotas, 1925–1927
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1926:
Outline of Marriage - Floyd Dell
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1926:
"The Inspiration of the Declaration" Speech
- Calvin Coolidge
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1926:
The Klan's Fight for Americanism
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1926:
Myers v. United States
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1926:
“The Negro-Art Hokum” -
George S.
Schuyler in Nation (6/16)
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1926:
The New
Housekeeping - Solving the Servant Problem
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1927:
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Court
Statement
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1927:
Charles Lindbergh speaks after his historic
flight (sound file)
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1927:
D.A.R. "Dossier on Jane Addams"
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1927:
Daughters
of the American Revolution, "Doubtful
Speakers"
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1927:
"Imperialism
Is Easy" - John Dewey in The New Republic
50 (3/23)
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1927:
The Last Days Remembered - A
Compatriot Recalls the Deaths of Sacco and
Vanzetti in 1927 (as recalled in 1954)
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1927:
“They Are Dead Now”- Eulogy
for Sacco and Vanzetti by John Dos Passos
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1927:
Mrs. William Sherman Walker, "Adequate
National Defense Versus a National Peace
Department" (Dec.)
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1927:
U.S. Intervention in Central
America - Kellogg’s Charges of a Bolshevist
Threat
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1927:
Whitney v. California
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1927-30:
Political Cartoons appearing in the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine, 1927-1930
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1928:
“I Will Not Be
Influenced in Appointments” - Al Smith
Accepts the Nomination for President
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1928:
Kellogg-Briand Pact
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1928:
“March On, O Dago Christs” -
Sacco and Vanzetti Memorialized by Malcolm
Cowley in The Nation (8/22)
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1928:
Olmstead v. United States
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1928:
Prohibition Raid (photo)
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1928:
"Rugged Individualism" speech - Herbert
Hoover
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1928:
“Sadie’s Servant Room Blues”-
Domestic Work in song lyrics
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1928:
Selection of the letters in her book
Motherhood in Bondage - Margaret Sanger
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1928:
Should a
Catholic Be President - A Contemporary View
of the 1928 Election
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1928:
Warning Against
the “Roman Catholic Party” - Catholicism and
the 1928 Election (1/28)
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1928-31:
Herbert Hoover
Predicts Prosperity
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1929:
Black Thursday at the New York Stock
Exchange--New York Times Headline
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1929:
“The Civilizing
Force of Birth Control” - Margaret Sanger
Becomes a Moderate
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1929:
The Crash Worsens - New York Times
(10/29)
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1929:
"The Bum as Con Artist- An Undercover
Account of the Great Depression" - published
in The Huntington Herald-Dispatch
(3/1)
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1929:
"Happy Days Are Here Again" - song lyrics by
Jack Yellen and Milton Ager
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1929:
“How to Live on Forty-six Cents a Day” -
Paul Blanshard, Nation (5/15)
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1929:
Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover
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1929:
“A Man’s Thanksgiving” - A
Hymn to the God of Business
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1929:
Reminiscences of the Great Depression
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1929:
United State v. Schwimmer
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Hundreds of Documents (many non-repetitive) from 1400 to
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