News and Events of 1935

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Karl von Ossietzky (Germany)

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Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty, introduce compulsory military service.
Mussolini invades Ethiopia; League of Nations invokes sanctions.
Persia becomes Iran under Reza Shah Pahlevi.
Nazis enact Nuremberg Laws against Jews to prevent "racial pollution." Heinrich Himmler starts breeding program to produce "Aryan super race."

President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 127,250,232

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Roosevelt opens second phase of New Deal in U.S., calling for social security, better housing, equitable taxation, and farm assistance.
Huey Long assassinated in Louisiana .
George H. Gallup begins the "Gallup Poll." In 1936 the poll will successfully predict outcome of the presidential election.

Federal spending:   $6.41 billion
Consumer Price Index:   13.7
Unemployment:   20.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.03

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Detroit d. Chicago Cubs (4-2)

Montreal Maroons d. Toronto (3-0)

Women: Helen Moody d. H. Jacobs (6-3 3-6 7-5)
Men: Fred Perry d. G. von Cramm (6-2 6-4 6-4)

Omaha

Minnesota (CFRA, NCF, HF) (8-0-0) & SMU (DS) (12-1-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Now in November, Josephine Winslow Johnson
Drama: The Old Maid, Zöe Akins

Oscars awarded in 1935
Academy Award, Best Picture: It Happened One Night (Columbia)

Miss America: Henrietta Leaver (PA)

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Although a primitive, two-color process was first used in 1922, audiences weren't impressed by Technicolor until a three-color system appeared in Becky Sharp.
George Gershwin combines black folk idiom and Broadway musical techniques in Porgy and Bess.
Allen Lane's Penguin Press, an English publishing house, reintroduces the paperback book.

Chemistry: Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie (both France), for synthesis of new radioactive elements

Physics: James Chadwick (UK), for discovery of the neutron

Physiology or Medicine: Hans Spemann (Germany), for discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development

Du Pont chemist Wallace Hume Carothers creates nylon, the first completely synthetic fabric.
Aircraft-detecting radar is pioneered by Robert Watson-Watt in England.