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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $4.60 billion Consumer Price Index: 13 Unemployment: 25.2% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesNY Giants d. Washington (4-1)Stanley CupNY Rangers d. Toronto (3-1)WimbledonWomen: Helen Moody d. D. Round (6-4 6-8 6-3) Men: Jack Crawford d. E. Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionBrokers TipNCAA Football ChampionsMichigan (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: The Store, T. S. Stribling Drama: Both Your Houses, Maxwell Anderson Academy Award, Best Picture: No ceremony was held this year. Films from 1933 were honored in 1934. Nobel Prize for Literature: Ivan G. Bunin (Russia) Miss America: Marion Bergeron (CT) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Edwin Armstrong introduces frequency modulation (FM), a static-free method of transmission.
- Esquire debuts as the first men's magazine.
- Laurens Hammond introduces his Hammond organ.
- Sally Rand's fan dance is a hit at the Chicago World's Fair.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: None awarded Physics: Erwin Schrödinger (Austria) and Paul A. M. Dirac (UK), for discovery of new fertile forms of the atomic theory Physiology or Medicine: Thomas H. Morgan (US), for discoveries on hereditary function of the chromosomes
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