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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $3.58 billion Consumer Price Index: 15.2 Unemployment: 16.3% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesSt. Louis Cardinals d. Philadelphia A's (4-3)Stanley CupMontreal d. Chicago (3-2)WimbledonWomen: Cilly Aussem d. H. Kranwinkel (6-2 7-5) Men: Sidney Wood d. F. Shields (walkover)Kentucky Derby ChampionTwenty GrandNCAA Football ChampionsUSC (10-1-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes Drama: Alison's House, Susan Glaspell Oscars awarded in 1931 Academy Award, Best Picture: Cimarron (RKO Radio) Nobel Prize for Literature: Erik A. Karlfeldt (Sweden) More Entertainment Awards...
Events
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Karl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius (both Germany), for invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods Physics: None awarded Physiology or Medicine: Otto H. Warburg (Germany), for discovery of the character and mode of action of the respiratory ferment
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