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The Dick and Jane primers introduced new readers to one new word on each page and only five new words in each individual story. [2] [3] Gray and Sharp also wanted children who read the books to be able to readily identify with the characters. Sharp chose stories where the characters participated in typical children's activities. [7] [8]
1934 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1934th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 934th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1930s decade.
Red Simpson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2016) March 7. Gray Morrow, American comic book artist, book illustrator (d. 2001) Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (The Today Show) (d. 2021) March 9. Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer and teacher (d. 1999) Joyce Van Patten, American actress
Britain informed the United States that it would make no more payments on its $5 billion war debt. The note explained that resumption of the payments "would be a re-creation of the conditions which existed prior to the world crisis and were in a large measure responsible for it.
A flood in Montrose, California killed at least 45 people. [1]The International Telecommunication Union was established.; The National Council for Civil Liberties was established in the UK by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.
The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 [4] [2] [1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Number 5 proclaimed, "As a German choose only a spouse of the same or Nordic blood", while Number 10 said, "You should want to have as many children as possible." [ 47 ] American journalist Dorothy Thompson received a letter from the Gestapo ordering her to leave Germany, citing what it called "numerous anti-German articles in the American press."