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Also in 1934, Drieu announces his conversion to fascism, with the essay Socialisme fasciste. [3] March 16 and October 5 – P. G. Wodehouse's Thank You, Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves, the first full-length novels to feature Jeeves, are published.
The world-famous Brookfield Zoo opens in Brookfield, Illinois. The Hays Office censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect. July 5 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: Police in San Francisco open fire on a crowd of striking longshoremen, killing two.
T. L. W. Hubbard, Poems, 1925–1934; John Lehmann, The Noise of History [10] Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Stony Limits and Other Poems, [10] Scottish poet; Ruth Pitter, A Mad Lady's Garland, preface by Hilaire Belloc [10] Nan Shepherd, In the Cairngorms; William Soutar, The Solitary Way [10]
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were So Red the Rose , by Stark Young , which held on top of the list for 17 weeks, and Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller , which was on top of the list for 8 weeks.
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.
"I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people—the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. [10] [11] I am sorry I could not see my father." [11] — Leon Czolgosz, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (29 October 1901), prior to execution by electrocution "I've been looking forward to this." [12]: 58
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) global political history; 816pp excerpt; Cornelissen, Christoph, and Arndt Weinrich, eds. Writing the Great War – The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (2020) free download; full coverage for major countries. Gardiner, Juliet, The Thirties: An Intimate History. London ...
"The Jew who coined the word meant by 'Proletariat,' not the oppressed, but those who work with their hands." 27 April: 1923: Munich: Call for a need to reform, from land reform to reform of press, art, culture, etc. 1 May: 1923: Munich "..then it must symbolize the renewal of the body of a people which has fallen into senility." 1 August: 1923 ...