Explosives discovered near gas pipeline to Hungary, says Serbia's president
France 24 →Powerful explosives were found near the Balkan Stream pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian gas to Hungary, the leaders of the two countries said on Sunday, triggering political scrutiny in Hungary days before a national election.
Enough Dynamite at Hog Island to Wreck Plant - 245 Pounds of Explosives Found by Agents
WASHINGTON, March 11—Enough dynamite to blow to half the great shipyard at Big Island has been found here during February, Dudley G. Mcnervy, manager of the Industrial Relations Department, told the Senate Investigation Committee today, and secret service men have been unable to find who placed it there. The testimony was brought out by Senator Nelson of Minnesota, who asked Kennedy whether the American International Corporation had had any contact with spies. "I hesitate somewhat to make the statement as a public hearing," said Mcnervy, "but in fact, U.S., we found 45 pounds of dynamite on the grounds last month. This amount, apparently, would have been enough to blow to half the yards."
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Debate and enactment — Sedition Act of 1918
President Wilson and his Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory viewed the bill as a political compromise. The final vote for passage was 48 to 26 in the Senate and 293 to 1 in the House of Representatives, with the sole dissenting vote in the House cast by Socialist Meyer London of New York.
Wikipedia →Facts — Debs v. United States
On June 16, 1918 Debs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I. He was arrested on June 30 under the Espionage Act of 1917 and convicted, sentenced to serve ten years in prison and to be disenfranchised for life. The argument of the Federal Government was that Debs was attempting to arouse mutiny and treason by preventing the drafting of soldiers into the army.
Wikipedia →Schenck v. United States
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that Charles Schenck and other defendants, who distributed flyers to draft-age men urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft.
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