America 1930-1939: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

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Overview

The Birth of a New Era

Prohibition and Social Control

Crime

Bigger Government

The Great Crisis

The Supreme Court in Transition

Topics in the News

The Antilynching Bill

The New Deal and Civil Rights

The First Wagner-Costigan Antilynching Bill

Introduction and Opposition

The Killing of Claude Neal

The Second Wagner-Costigan Bill

Political Considerations

Opposition

Lynching and the law

Bandits and Gangsters

Crime Wave

Crime Pays

Crime on the Screen

The Outlaw

Dillinger

FBI Manhunts

The Mobster

The Syndicate

Thomas E. Dewey

Harry J. Anslinger and the Bureau of Narcotics

Civil Unrest and the Bonus Army

Desperation Sets In

The Bonus March

The Bonus Riots

Fallout

The Ludlow Amendment

The Wickersham Commission

Crime and Punishment

An Antiquated System

Obstacles to Federal Intervention

The New Deal's Anticrime Proposals

The First War on Crime

Racketeering and the Copeland Committee

Hearst Attacks Racketeers

Prisons and Punishment

Reform

Crime and Politics

Developments in the Legal Profession

The Crowded Profession

Limiting Lawyers

The ABA

Changes in Law School Curricula

Realism

Labor and the Law

Labor on the Defensive

Labor Ignored

"Labor's Great Friend"

The Supreme Court Steps In

. . . And Labor Steps Out

The Battle for Flint

The Memorial Day Massacre

The Supreme Court Steps Back . . . a Little

The Lindbergh Kidnapping

The Public Hero

The Arrest

The Suspect

The Trial

The Evidence

The New Federalism and Erie Railroad V. Tompkins

Common Law and Diversity Jurisdiction

Mr. Tompkins Goes to Court

The Erie Rule

President Roosevelt's Court-Packing Plan

The President Looks for a Solution

"BlackMonday"

The Judicial Reorganization Bill

The President Stumbles

Reaction

The President Responds

"A Switch In Time, Saves Nine"

The President Gets His Chance

"Federal Judiciary Facts"

Prohibition and the Twenty-First Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act

Efforts to Enforce Prohibition

The Crime Business

Repeal

The Scottsboro Boys

The Arrests

The First Trial

Public Reaction and Appeal

Retrial

Another Retrial

Another Appeal

And Yet Another Trial

The End

The Seabury Investigation and Municipal Corruption

Arnold Rothstein

Judge Crater

Judge Seabury

Police Corruption

Tammany Hall

Jimmy Walker

Citizen Seabury

Race Consciousness

Headline Makers

Arizona Clark "Kate" or "Ma" Barker

"Ma" and Her "Boys"

Background

Herman Barker

The Barker Boys

Kidnapping

Shootout

Hugo Black

The New Deal's Champion

The Senator

The President's Choice

Confirmation

The Great Dissenter

Benjamin V. Cohen

The New Dealer

The Lawyer

The Insider

The New Deal Goes into High Gear . . . Again

J. Edgar Hoover

The Director

The Bureau of Investigation

Crime Fighting

The Director and the President

Charles Evans Hughes

Judicial Statesman

Lawyer and Politician

The Chief Justice

The "Sick Chicken" Case

The Crisis

The Chief Justice's Remaining Terms

Thomas J. Mooney

The Bombing

Suspects

The Trial

The Prisoner

Reaction

Habeas Corpus

A New Hearing

People in the News

Deaths

Publications

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America 1930-1939: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 94 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.