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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
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, "The Great American Fraud", Adams exposed many of the false claims made about patent medicines, pointing out that in some cases these medicines were damaging the health of the people using them. The series had a huge impact and led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In 1911, the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition of falsifications referred only to the ingredients of the medicine. This meant that companies were again free to make false claims about their products. Adams returned to the
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Adams was a prolific writer, who wrote fiction as well. "Night Bus", one of Adams's many magazine stories, became the basis for the film It Happened One Night. Adams's first solo novel was in 1908, Flying Death, which added to his mystery collection.[1] His best-known novel, Revelry (1926), based on the scandals of the Harding administration, was later followed by Incredible Era (1939), a biography of Harding.[][]
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- Flaming Youth (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1924)
- Sailors' Wives (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924)
- Summer Bachelors (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926; The Macaulay Company, 1927)
- Unforbidden Fruit (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928; Cleveland & New York: International Fiction Library, 1928)
- The Men in Her Life (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1930; Grosset & Dunlap, 1930)
- Week-End Girl (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932)
- Widow's Oats (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935)
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