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1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City. 1931 - “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes official U.S. national anthem; 1931 - Hoover vetoes Veteran Bonus; 1931 - Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth making heroes of the Chinese ...
October 4 – Dick Tracy, the comic strip detective character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, makes his first appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper. October 10 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 3, to win their second World Series title in baseball.
The Ybor cigar makers' strike of 1931 took place in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, starting on November 26 [1] and ended in December. Some strikers were jailed, "Lectors" were banned and there was a lockout. Following legal intervention, some workers returned to work at previous wage levels but others were not re-employed.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Economic forecasters throughout 1930 optimistically predicted an economic rebound come 1931, and felt vindicated by a stock market rally in the spring of 1930. [ 1 ] The stock market crash in the first few weeks had a limited direct effect on the broader economy, as only 16% of the U.S. population was invested in the market in any form.
1931 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade.
Anthony Velonis Technical Problems of the Artist 1938 National print exhibition, Federal Art Gallery. 1931 - Buffalo Print Club, with guidance from Kevin B. O'Callahan, was established this year, then hosted annual exhibitions through 1962, when it closed. [17] [18] 1933 – American printmaker Adolf Dehn set up the Adolf Dehn Print Club. For ...
The newspaper became the World-Telegram in 1931, following the sale of the New York World by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard. [1] More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in the merger, although some star writers, including Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler , were kept on ...