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In this year, vigilante American Legion members lynched Wesley Everest after a Veterans Day parade in Centralia, Washington. The press nicknamed the USAT Buford an “ark” for deporting hundreds at the end of this year. Mayor Ole Hanson embarked on a national (15[1])speaking tour after cracking down on this year’s Seattle General Strike. In this year, (15[1])Mother (-5[1])Earth journal activists Alexander Berkman and Emma (*) Goldman were deported (-5[1])and the Galleanists carried out an anarchist mail bomb campaign that nearly killed Attorney General A. Mitchell (10[1])Palmer. During this year’s (-5[1])start, Henry Cabot Lodge tanked Congress’s ratification of a treaty agreed to by the “Big Four” powers. For 10 points, name this year in which the First Red Scare broke out, one year after the Treaty of Versailles was signed. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: 1919 (The Buford was nicknamed the “Soviet Ark.”)
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