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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $4.66 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13.7
Unemployment: 24.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02 ($0.03 as of 7/6/32)
Sports
World SeriesNY Yankees d. Chicago Cubs (4-0)Stanley CupToronto d. NY Rangers (3-0)WimbledonWomen: Helen Moody d. H. Jacobs (6-3 6-1)
Men: Ellsworth Vines d. H. Austin (6-4 6-2 6-0)Kentucky Derby ChampionBurgoo KingNCAA Football ChampionsUSC (CFRA, NCF, HF) (10-0-0) & Michigan (DS) (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Drama: Of Thee I Sing, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin Oscars awarded in 1932
Academy Award, Best Picture: Grand Hotel (MGM) Nobel Prize for Literature: John Galsworthy (UK) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing," a song that presaged the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall opens.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Irving Langmuir (US), for work in realm of surface chemistry Physics: In 1933, the prize for 1932 was awarded to Werner Heisenberg (Germany), for creation of the quantum mechanics Physiology or Medicine: Sir Charles Sherrington (UK) and Edgar D. Adrian (US), for discoveries of the function of the neuron
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