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United States convicts newspaper editor Jacob Frohwerk under the Espionage Act, June 1918
Jacob Frohwerk, an associate editor of the German language newspaper the Missouri Staats-Zeitung, was tried and convicted in June 1918 under the Espionage Act of 1917 for publishing articles opposing American participation in the First Wor…
Secrets and espionage laws · Stage Punish · Head of government Woodrow Wilson · Upheld by a court
United States convicts Mother Earth editor Emma Goldman of draft conspiracy and bars her magazine from the mail
Emma Goldman, editor of the anarchist magazine Mother Earth, was convicted with fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman of conspiring against the newly enacted Selective Draft Law and received the maximum two year sentence and a ten thousand do…
Detention and violence · Stage Punish · Head of government Woodrow Wilson · Upheld by a court