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24 relations: Ada Comstock, Alger Hiss, August Vollmer, Bureau of Prohibition, Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Frank J. Loesch, Franklin P. Adams, George L. P. Radcliffe, George W. Wickersham, Henry W. Anderson, Herbert Hoover, New York World, Newton D. Baker, Organized crime, Paul John McCormick, Preparedness Day Bombing, Prohibition, Roscoe Pound, Solicitor General of the United States, Thomas Mooney, Warren K Billings, William Irwin Grubb, William L. Marbury Jr., William S. Kenyon (Iowa politician).
Ada Comstock
Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer.
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Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
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August Vollmer
August "Gus" Vollmer (March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955) was the first police chief of Berkeley, California and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century.
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Bureau of Prohibition
The Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919, commonly known as the Volstead Act, which elaborated upon the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
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Frank J. Loesch
Frank Joseph Loesch (April 9h, 1852 – July 31, 1944) was a prominent Chicago attorney, reformer and a founder of the Chicago Crime Commission, which attempted to combat widespread corruption and organized crime related violence.
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Franklin P. Adams
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A..
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George L. P. Radcliffe
George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe (August 22, 1877July 29, 1974) was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1935-1947.
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George W. Wickersham
George Woodward Wickersham (September 19, 1858 – January 25, 1936) was an American lawyer and Attorney General of the United States in the administration of President William H. Taft.
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Henry W. Anderson
Henry Watkins Anderson (December 20, 1870 – January 7, 1954) was an American attorney and leader of the Republican Party in Virginia.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
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New York World
The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931.
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Newton D. Baker
Newton Diehl Baker Jr. (December 3, 1871December 25, 1937) was an American lawyer, Georgist,Noble, Ransom E. "Henry George and the Progressive Movement." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.
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Paul John McCormick
Paul John McCormick (April 23, 1879 – December 2, 1960) was a United States federal judge.
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Preparedness Day Bombing
The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing in San Francisco, California on July 22, 1916, when the city held a parade in honor of Preparedness Day, in anticipation of the United States' imminent entry into World War I. During the parade a suitcase bomb was detonated, killing ten and wounding 40 in the worst attack in San Francisco's history.
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Prohibition
Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.
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Roscoe Pound
Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator.
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Solicitor General of the United States
The United States Solicitor General is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Thomas Mooney
Thomas Joseph "Tom" Mooney (December 8, 1882 – March 6, 1942) was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916.
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Warren K Billings
Warren Knox Billings (July 4, 1893 – September 4, 1972) was a labor leader and political activist, who was convicted with Thomas Mooney of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916.
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William Irwin Grubb
William Irwin Grubb (March 8, 1862 – October 27, 1935) was a United States federal judge who struck down key portions of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
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William L. Marbury Jr.
William Luke Marbury Jr. (September 12, 1901 – March 5, 1988) was a prominent 20th-century American lawyer who ran the family firm of Marbury, Miller & Evans (later Piper & Marbury, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, Piper Rudnick, now DLA Piper), and was a childhood friend of alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
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William S. Kenyon (Iowa politician)
William Squire Kenyon (June 10, 1869September 9, 1933) was a Republican U.S. Senator from Iowa, and a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickersham_Commission
