JAN

President's Emergency Committee for Unemployment Relief claims 4 to 5 million unemployed Wickersham Commission advises against the Repeal of the 18th Amendment, in spite of ineffectiveness of Prohibition

Supreme Court rules that procedures for adopting 18th Amendment were constitutional, overturning the ruling of a lower court Bonus Loan Bill passed by Congress, overriding Hoover's veto attempt, which allows veterans to obtain cash loans up to 50 percent of bonus certificates issued in 1924

Hoover signs act making "Star Spangled Banner" national anthem Hoover, opposed to governmental involvement in business ventures, vetoes Muscle Shoals Bill, which would later become the basis for Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority Nine young black men arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama, charged with raping a white woman; the "Scottsboro Boys" would become a cause celebre for social justice seekers nationwide

Hoover proposes one-year moratorium on all international war debts and reparations

Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Chicago's Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University

Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America, a relatively conservative organization, gives qualified support to some measures of birth control

Empire State Building, the world's tallest, dedicated in New York City Pulitzer Prizes awarded

New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt opens George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey to Manhattan Mourning Becomes Electra, 6-hr play by Eugene O'Neill, opens in Guild Theater in NYC

Cimarron wins Academy Award for Best Picture, Lionel Barrymore Best Actor in A Free Soul; Marie Dressler as Best Actress in Min and Bill

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