MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
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1931
The 20th Century Almanac · The Thirties

1931

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

The Empire State Building rose as the world's tallest, "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the national anthem, and Japan invaded Manchuria. Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, while Grand Hotel and its all-star cast dazzled audiences.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Karlfeldt
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Animal Crackers
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Cimarron
  4. City Lights
  5. A Connecticut Yankee
  6. Daddy Long Legs
  7. Hell's Angels
  8. Little Caesar
  9. The Man Who Came Back
  10. Min and Bill Best Picture: "Grand Hotel" Best Director: Frank Borzage

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was awarded jointly to: BOSCH, CARL, Germany, Heidelberg University and I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G., Heidelberg, b. 1874, d. 1940; and BERGIUS, FRIEDRICH, Germany, Heidelberg University and I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. Mannheim-Rheinau
Literature
KARLFELDT, ERIK AXEL, Sweden, b. 1864, d. 1931: "The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt"
Peace
and Freedom. BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY, USA, b. 1862, d. 1947: President of Columbia University. Promoter of the Briand-Kellogg Pact
Physiology or Medicine
WARBURG, OTTO HEINRICH, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) fŸr Biologie, Berlin-Dahlem, b. 1883, d. 1970: "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme"
Physics
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Susan Glaspell ... "Alison House"
Fiction
Margaret Ayer Barnes ... "Years of Grace"
History
Bernadotte E. Schmitt ... "The Coming of the War: 1914"
Public Service
"Atlanta Constitution"