1930s
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1930
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1931
Modern fashions; Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; Chinese opium traffic; world's biggest automobile.

1932
Amelia Earhart; rout of the Bonus Army; pontoon hydroplane; Cubs vs. Yankees in World Series; Lindberg kidnapping.

1933
Hitler comes to power in Germany; F.D.R.'s 1st Inaugural; Indianapolis 500; anti-Nazi parade in N.Y.C.; the Minnesotta State Fair.

1934
Dillinger killed; draught in the midwest; fall fashions; strike in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Toledo; airplane and automobile crashes; fire aboard the Morro Castle at sea.

1935
Bruno Hauptman found Guilty in Lindberg kidnapping; Italian fascists embark for Abyssinia; Germany re-arms; American neutrality; passage of the Social Security Bill; Huey Long's Share the Wealth campaign; Huey Long assasinated; F.D.R. dedicates Hoover Dam.

1936
F.D.R. proclaims American neutrality; Italians conquer Abyssinia; Bonus Bill passes the House; Jesse Owens returns after Olympic triumph; high wire artist; strike at a Pennsylvania shipyard.

1937
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1938
Washington Senators in spring practice; dancing on the 20th floor; Four Power Conference in Munich; praciticing safe breakfast; the boy in the iron lung; man jumps to death in N.Y.C.

1939
Germany invades Poland; British carrier sunk; London during the Blitz; 40th annual Auto Show; N.Y. vs. Cincinnati in the World Series.

1940
Germany invades the low countries, the Battle of Dunkirk and the surrender of France, Britains resistence stiffens, American paratroopers in training, U.S. navy buildup, and the initiation of the first peace time draft.

The 1930s

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