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  • Germany rejects the Versailles Treaty
  • Comonwealth of the Phillipines declared
  • Social Security Act
  • NIRA declared Unconstitutional
  • Neutrality Act
  • WPA created
  • American Airlines begins to fly DC-3's
  • Earhart 1st Woman To Cross Pacific
  • Howard Hughes Slashes Speed Record
  • Pan Am Begins Service To Manila

    Sports

    Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Series: 3-0
    US Open Golf: Sam Parks, Jr. Score: 299 Course: Oakmont CC Location: Oakmont, PA
    World Series: Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs Series: 4-2

    Nobel Prizes

    Chemistry
    The prize was awarded jointly to: JOLIOT, FRƒDƒRIC, France, Institut du Radium, Paris, b. 1900, d. 1958; and his wife JOLIOT-CURIE, IRéNE, France, Institut du Radium, Paris, b. 1897, d. 1956: "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"

    Literature
    The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

    Peace
    OSSIETZKY, CARL VON, Germany, b. 1888, d. 1938: Journalist (with Die WeltbŸhne, among others), pacifist.

    Physiology or Medicine
    SPEMANN, HANS, Germany, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, b. 1869, d. 1941: "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"

    Physics
    CHADWICK, Sir JAMES, Great Britain, Liverpool University, b. 1891, d. 1974: "for the discovery of the neutron"

    Pulitzer Prizes

    Drama: Zoe Akins ... "The Old Maids"
    Fiction: Josephine Winslow Johnson ... "Now In November"
    History: Charles M. Andrews ... "The Colonial Period of American History"
    Public Service: "Sacramento Bee"

    Most Popular Movies & The Oscars

    1. China Seas
    2. David Copperfield
    3. Forsaking All Others
    4. Goin' to Town
    5. Les Miserables
    6. Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    7. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    8. Mutiny on the Bounty
    9. Roberta
    10. She Married Her Boss

    Best Picture: "Mutiny on the Bounty"
    Best Director: John Ford ... "The Informer"
    Best Actor: Victor McLaglen ... "The Informer"
    Best Actress: Bette Davis ... "Dangerous"

     

     

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