Albert S. Burleson

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1919 United States anarchist bombings victims
Chairman of the United States Commission to the International Wire Communication Conference
Chairman of the United States Telegraph and Telephone Administration
Edward Burleson, Jr.
United States Postmaster General
Woodrow Wilson administration cabinet members

1915 After Europe was engaged in World War I, he issued an order in 1915 barring envelopes and cards from the mails from the warring countries.
1915 Burleson banned antiwar material from being delivered by Post Office personnel. It was impossible to draw an ideal line, and the result was a general alienation of the press.
1915 The distribution by mail of major radical pamphlets, such as Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and Max Eastman's The Masses, was slowed drastically, and often, such pamphlets were never delivered.
1917 After the United States entered the war as a belligerent, Burleson vigorously enforced the Espionage Act, ordering local postmasters to send to him any illegal or suspicious material that they found.
1918 Following the war, Burleson continued to advocate permanent nationalization of telephone, telegraph, and cable services.
1918-1919 From June 1918 to July 1919, the Post Office Department operated the nation's telephone and telegraph services, an arrangement Burleson had advocated at least as early as 1913.