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The 1930s in America

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Table of Contents: The Thirties in America




Academy Awards




Adams, Ansel




Addams, Jane




Adler Planetarium




Adventures of Robin Hood, The




Advertising in Canada




Advertising in the United States




African Americans




Agricultural Adjustment Acts




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




Aid to Dependent Children




Air mail route scandal




Air pollution




Airships




Akron disaster




Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary




Alcoholics Anonymous




All Quiet on the Western Front




American Federation of Labor




American Gothic




American Liberty League




Amos ’n’ Andy




Anderson, Marian




Anti-Racketeering Act of 1934




Anti-Semitism




Apple Mary




Archaeology




Archambault Report




Architecture




Armstrong, Edwin H.




Armstrong, Louis




Art movements




Asia




Asian Americans




Astaire, Fred




Astor, Mary




Astronomy




Atherton Report




Auto racing




Automobiles and auto manufacturing




Aviation and aeronautics




Awake and Sing!




Bank holiday




Bank of United States failure




Banking




Banking Act of 1935




Barker Gang




Barrow, Clyde, and Bonnie Parker




Baseball




Basie, Count




Basketball




Bathysphere




Beard, Charles A.




Beatty, Clyde




Bennett, Richard Bedford




Benny, Jack




Benton, Thomas Hart




Berkeley, Busby




Bethune, Mary McLeod




Bingo




Birth control




Black, Hugo L.




Black Empire




Black hole theory




Black Monday




Black No More




Blondie comic strip




Blondie films




Blood banks




Bonus Army March




Book publishing




Boulder Dam




Boxing




Braddock, James J.




Brains Trust




Brandeis, Louis D.




Breadlines and soup kitchens




Breedlove v. Suttles




Bringing Up Baby




Broadway musicals




Brown v. Mississippi




Brownlee, John Edward




Buck, Pearl S.




Budge, Don




Business and the economy in Canada




Business and the economy in the United States




Butler, Smedley




Byrd, Richard




Cagney, James




Calder, Alexander




Caldwell, Erskine




Canada, U.S. investments in




Canada and Great Britain




Canadian minority communities




Canadian regionalism




Cancer




Capone, Al




Capra, Frank




Car radios




Carter family




Carter v. Carter Coal Co.




Chaplin, Charles




Charlie Chan films




Chemistry




Chicago World’s Fair




Children’s Hour, The




Christie Pits riot




Chrysler Building




City Lights




Civil rights and liberties in Canada




Civil rights and liberties in the United States




Civilian Conservation Corps




Cleveland “torso” murders




Cohan, George M.




Coinage




Collier, John




Comic strips




Commodity Credit Corporation




Communism




Congress, U.S.




Congress of Industrial Organizations




Consumers Union of the United States




Contract bridge




Corrigan’s wrong-way flight




Coughlin, Charles E.




Crane, Hart




Crater disappearance




Credit and debt




Crimes and scandals




Curry, John Steuart




Curtis, Charles




Cyclotron




Dance




Davis, Bette




Day, Dorothy




Day of the Locust, The




DC-3




Dean, Dizzy




De Jonge v. Oregon




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




Design for Living




Destry Rides Again




Dewey, John




Diary of a Country Priest, The




Dick Tracy




Dillinger, John




Dionne quintuplets




Dorsey, Tommy




Dracula




Drive-in theaters




Dubinsky, David




Du Bois, W. E. B.




Dust Bowl




Dutch elm disease




Earhart, Amelia




Ecstasy




Education




Einstein, Albert




Elections, Canadian




Elections of 1930, 1934, and 1938, U.S.




Elections of 1932, U.S.




Elections of 1936, U.S.




Electric razors




Electron microscope




Elixir sulfanilamide scandal




Ellington, Duke




Empire State Building




Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins




Europe




Evian Conference




Export-Import Bank of the United States




Fads




Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938




Fallingwater house




Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota




Farmers’ organizations




Farnsworth, Philo T.




Fascism in Canada




Fascism in the United States




Fashions and clothing




Father Divine




Faulkner, William




Federal Communications Commission




Federal Emergency Relief Administration




Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938




Federal Housing Administration




Federal National Mortgage Association




Federal Power Commission




Federal Reserve Board




Federal Theatre Project




Federal Trade Commission




Federal Writers’ Project




Fetchit, Stepin




Fibber McGee and Molly




Field Guide to the Birds




Fields, W. C.




Film




Film serials




Fireside chats




Fitzgerald, Ella




Fitzgerald, F. Scott




Flash Gordon




Fleming, Victor




Flint sit-down strike




Floyd, Pretty Boy




Fluorescent lighting




Food processing




Food stamps




Football




Ford, Henry




Ford, John




Ford Foundation




Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938




Foreign policy of Canada




Foreign policy of the United States




Fortune magazine




Forty-second Street




Four Horsemen vs. Three Musketeers




Foxx, Jimmie




Frankenstein films




Freaks




Freon




Frost, Robert




Frozen-food marketing




Functions of the Executive, The




Fundamentalist-Modernist conflict




Gable, Clark




Gambling




Gangster films




Garbo, Greta




Garner, John Nance




Gehrig, Lou




General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The




Geneva Disarmament Conference




George VI’s North American visit




George Washington Bridge




German-American Bund




Germany and U.S. appeasement




Gershwin, George




Glass-Steagall Act of 1933




“God Bless America”




Goddard, Robert H.




Gold Clause Cases




Gold Reserve Act of 1934




Golf




Gone with the Wind




Good Earth, The




Good Neighbor Policy




Goodman, Benny




Graham, Martha




Grand Coulee Dam




Grand Hotel




Grapes of Wrath, The




Graves v. New York ex rel. O’Keefe




Great Depression in Canada




Great Depression in the United States




Great New England hurricane




Green Pastures, The




Greenfield Village




Gropius House




Grosjean v. American Press Co.




Gross national product




Group Theatre




Grovey v. Townsend




Gunther, John




Guthrie, Woody




Hague v. Congress of Industrial Organizations




Hairstyles




Haiti occupation




Hammett, Dashiell




“Happy Days Are Here Again”




Harlem on the Prairie




Harlem Renaissance




Harlow, Jean




Hatch Act




Hawk’s Nest Tunnel disaster




Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930




Health care




Hearing aids




Heart-lung machine




Heat wave of 1931




Hell’s Angels




Hellman, Lillian




Hellzapoppin’




Hemingway, Ernest




Hepburn, Katharine




Hindenburg disaster




Hobbies




Holiday, Billie




Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell




Home furnishings




Homelessness




Homosexuality and gay rights




Hoover, Herbert




Hoovervilles




Horror films




Horse racing




House Committee on Un-American Activities




Housing in Canada




Housing in the United States




How to Win Friends and Influence People




Hughes, Charles Evans




Hughes, Howard




Hull, Cordell




Humphrey’s Executor v. United States




Hutton, Barbara




I AM movement




Ice hockey




Ickes, Harold




I’d Rather Be Right




Imitation of Life




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




Income and wages in Canada




Income and wages in the United States




Indian Reorganization Act




Inflation




Informer, The




Instant coffee




Insull Utilities Trusts collapse




Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace




International trade




Inventions




Invisible Man, The




Isolationism




It Happened One Night




Japanese American Citizens League




Japanese military aggression




Jews in Canada




Jews in the United States




Jim Crow segregation




John Muir Trail




Johnson, Robert




Johnson v. Zerbst




Joliet prison riot




Joy of Cooking, The




Karloff, Boris




Kaufman, George S., and Moss Hart




Kelly, Machine Gun




King, William Lyon Mackenzie




King Kong




Labor Day hurricane




Labor strikes




La Guardia, Fiorello Henry




Landon, Alf




Lange, Dorothea




Last Mile, The




Latin America and the Caribbean




Latinos




Laurel and Hardy




Leadbelly




League of Nations




Lee, Gypsy Rose




Let Us Now Praise Famous Men




Lewis, John L.




Lewis, Sinclair




Life Begins at Forty




Life magazine




L’il Abner




Lincoln Continental Mark I




Lindbergh, Anne Morrow




Lindbergh baby kidnapping




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




Little Caesar




Little Orphan Annie




Lobotomy




London Economic Conference




London Naval Treaty




Long, Huey




Long Beach earthquake




Look magazine




Louis, Joe




Lovell v. City of Griffin




Luce, Henry




Luciano, Lucky




Ludlow amendment




Lynching




MacArthur, Douglas




McDaniel, Hattie




MacLeish, Archibald




Magazines




Man Who Came to Dinner, The




Manchuria occupation




Marathon dancing




Marble, Alice




March of Dimes




Marihuana Tax Act of 1937




Marquand, John P.




Marx Brothers




Massie trial




Medicine




Memorial Day Massacre




Mencken, H. L.




Merry Widow, The




Mexico




Micheaux, Oscar




Mickey Mouse




Migrations, domestic




Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act of 1934




Miller, Glenn




Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada




Modern Corporation and Private Property, The




Modern Times




Monopoly




Moody, Helen Wills




Morgenthau, Henry T., Jr.




Morro Castle disaster




Motion Picture Production Code




Mount Rushmore National Memorial




Mr. Deeds Goes to Town




Mr. Moto films




Mr. Smith Goes to Washington




Muni, Paul




Music: Classical




Music: Jazz




Music: Popular




Mutiny on the Bounty




Muzak




Nancy Drew novels




Nation of Islam




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People




National Association of Manufacturers




National Baseball Hall of Fame




National Council of Negro Women




National debt




National Film Act of 1939 (Canada)




National Firearms Act of 1934




National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933




National Labor Relations Act of 1935




National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.




National Negro Congress




National parks




National Recovery Administration




National Wildlife Federation




National Youth Administration




Native Americans




Natural disasters




Natural Gas Act of 1938




Natural resources




Naval forces




Near v. Minnesota




Nebbia v. New York




Nebraska unicameral legislature




Negro Leagues




Ness, Eliot




Neutrality Acts




Neutron star theory




New Deal




New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann




New York World’s Fair




Newspapers, Canadian




Newspapers, U.S.




Nitti, Frank




Nixon v. Condon




Nobel Prizes




Nonpartisan League




Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932




Northrop, John Howard




Nuclear fission




Nye Committee




Nylon




Odets, Clifford




Ohio Penitentiary fire




Ohio River flood




Oklahoma Welfare Act of 1936




Olympic Games of 1932 (Summer)




Olympic Games of 1932 (Winter)




Olympic Games of 1936 (Summer)




Olympic Games of 1936 (Winter)




100,000,000 Guinea Pigs




O’Neill, Eugene




Organized crime




Ott, Mel




Ottawa Agreements




Our Town




Owens, Jesse




Palko v. Connecticut




Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan




Panay incident




Parking meters




Patterns of Culture




Pauling, Linus




Peace movement




Pearson, Drew




Pendergast, Thomas Joseph




People’s Forests, The




Perkins, Frances




Petrified Forest, The




Philippine Independence Act of 1934




Philippine Islands




Philosophy and philosophers




Photography




Physics




Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937




Pluto discovery




Polio




Porgy and Bess




Pornography




Positron discovery




Post, Wiley




Postage stamps




Prohibition repeal




Psychology and psychiatry




Public Utilities Act




Purge of 1938




Quarantine speech




Race riots




Racial discrimination




Radar, invention of




Radio astronomy




Radio in Canada




Radio in the United States




Radio trust




Rand, Sally




Ranger, USS




Rayburn, Sam




Recession of 1937-1938




Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1936




Reconstruction Finance Corporation




Recording industry




Recreation




Refrigerators




Religion in Canada




Religion in the United States




Reorganization Act of 1939




Resettlement Administration




Reuther, Walter P.




Revenue Acts




Rice, Elmer




Richter scale




Riggs, Bobby




Roberts, Owen J.




Robeson, Paul




Robinson, Edward G.




Robinson, Joseph Taylor




Robinson-Patman Act of 1936




Rockefeller Center




Rockefeller Center Rivera mural




Rocketry




Rogers, Will




Rooney, Mickey




Roosevelt, Eleanor




Roosevelt, Franklin D.




Roosevelt assassination attempt




Roosevelt’s court-packing plan




Roosevelt’s first one hundred days




Rural Electrification Administration




Ruth, Babe




St. Lawrence Seaway Treaty




St. Louis incident




San Francisco Bay bridges




Sarazen, Gene




Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States




Schultz, Dutch




Schuyler, George S.




Science fiction




Scottsboro trials




Screwball comedy




Seabiscuit




Securities and Exchange Commission




Serenade




Sex and sex education




Sexually transmitted diseases




Shaw, Artie




Sherwood, Robert E.




Shore, Eddie




Simpson, Wallis




Since Yesterday




Sinclair, Upton




Smith, Alfred E.




Smith, Bessie




Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs




Soap operas




Soccer




Social Security Act of 1935




Socialist parties




Soil Conservation Service




Sons of the Pioneers




Soviet Union




Spanish Civil War




Sparling, Gordon




Sports in Canada




Sports in the United States




Squalus sinking




Stagecoach




“Star-Spangled Banner”




Statute of Westminster




Steinbeck, John




Stimson, Henry L.




Story of Philosophy, The




Stromberg v. California




Studs Lonigan trilogy




Supermarkets




Supreme Court, U.S.




Tarzan films




Taylor Grazing Act of 1934




Telephone technology and service




Television technology




Temple, Shirley




Tennessee Valley Authority




Tennis




Texas school explosion




Thalberg, Irving




Theater in Canada




Theater in the United States




Thin Man, The




Thomas, Norman




Thousand Islands Bridge




Tilden, Bill




Timberline Lodge




Tobacco Road




Todd, Thelma




Top Hat




Townsend Plan




Tracy, Spencer




Trail Smelter dispute




Trans World Airlines




Transportation




Travel




Triborough Bridge




Twentieth Amendment




Typhus immunization




Ultramares Corporation v. Touche




Ulysses trial




Unemployment in Canada




Unemployment in the United States




Unionism




United States v. Butler




United States v. Carolene Products Co.




United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.




Urbanization in Canada




Urbanization in the United States




U.S.A. trilogy




Vanderbilt custody trial




Vander Meer, Johnny




Vending machines




Veterans Administration




Voting rights




Wagner, Robert F.




Wagner-Steagall Housing Act of 1937




Walker, James J.




Wallace, Henry A.




War of the Worlds, The radio broadcast




Weissmuller, Johnny




West, Mae




West, Nathanael




West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish




Western films




Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938




Whitney Museum of American Art




Wilder, Laura Ingalls




Wilderness Society




Winter War




Wizard of Oz, The




Wolfe, Thomas




Wood, Grant




Works Progress Administration




World War I debts




World War II and Canada




World War II and the United States




Wray, Fay




Wright, Frank Lloyd




Xerography




Yearling, The




You Can’t Take It with You




Young Mr. Lincoln




Zangara, Giuseppe




Drama: Major Broadway Plays and Awards of the 1930’s




Entertainment: Academy Awards for Films of the 1930’s




Entertainment: Major Films of the 1930’s




Entertainment: Major Radio Programs of the 1930’s




Legislation: Major U.S. Legislation of the 1930’s




Legislation: Major U.S. Supreme Court Decisions of the 1930’s




Literature: Best-Selling Books in the United States of the 1930’s




Literature: Major Literary Awards of the 1930’s




Time Line of the 1930’s




Bibliography of the 1930’s




Glossary of the 1930’s




List of Entries by Category for The Thirties in America