What Was it Like in the 1930s? |
| Music |
"Lullaby of Broadway", Al Dubin
"Why Shouldn't I", Cole Porter
"Thanks for the Memory", Shep Fields
"Jeepers Creepers", Al Donohue
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| Literature |
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath George Steinbeck
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| Entertainment |
Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard. Gershwin's Porgy & Bess premiers in NY.  "Young Widder Brown" makes its first radio broadcast on NBC. Dennis the Menace and Batman comics hit the street. Grand Hotel, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gone With the Wind, and The Wizard of Oz all premier.
Best Pictures: Grand Hotel, Mutiny On The Bounty, You Can't Take it With You and Gone With the Wind
Best Actors: Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Victor McLaglen for The Informer, Spencer Tracey for Boys Town and Robert Donat for Goodbye Mr. Chips
Best Actresses: Helen Hayes for Sin of Madelon Claudet, Bette Davis for Dangerous and Jezebel and Vivien Leigh for Gone With the Wind
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| Average Salary: $1,667.00 |
| Cost of Living |
| Loaf of Bread: |
.08¢ |
| Gallon of Milk: |
.47¢ |
| Dozen Eggs: |
.55¢ |
| Average House: |
$6,411.00 |
| Average Car: |
$645.00 |
| Gallon of Gas: |
.19¢ |
| First Class Stamp: |
.03¢ |
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| World Events |
The ninth planet, Pluto, is discovered. Rastafarians proclaim Haile Selassie the messiah. Uruguay wins the first World Cup. Japan occupies Manchuria. The  atom is split and the neutron discovered. Gandhi's fast gains concessions from British in India. Hitler becomes German chancellor, declares Third Reich, opens first concentration camp. Mexicans elect Pres. Cardenas. Protestants and Catholics clash in Ireland. Persia renamed Iran; Italy invades Ethipoia. Spanish Civil War starts. In Russia, Stalin orders 8 million killed and 10 million imprisoned. Nehru heads Indian Natl. Congress. Japan invades China. Hitler annexes Austria and invades Poland. France and Great Britain declare war.
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| U.S. History |
Thousands of banks fail, millions are out of work, and the unemployed march on the White House. Elijah Muhammad heads the Nation of Islam. Al Capone is jailed. Star Spangled Banner named national anthem. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president elected for first of four terms. Babe Didrikson wins at LA Olympics. Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped and dies. La Guardia elected mayor of NYC. Negro Pitcher Satchel Paige breaks Dizzy Deans winning record. Prohibition ends. Alcoholics Anonymous founded. Social Security Act passed. Dust Bowl ravages the West. Bonnie and Clyde shot, Dillinger nabbed. Amelia Earhart disappears over Pacific. Congress passes minimum wage law. War of the Worlds radio broadcast panics country. Eleanor Roosevelt arranges for Marian Anderson to sing at Lincoln Memorial after DAR snub.
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| At Salem Teachers College |
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In 1932, Salem Normal School is renamed Salem Teachers College. In 1935, it is formally decreed that the training school of the State Teachers College at Salem should be named "The Horace Mann Training School." President Pitman retires; Edward A. Sullivan is appointed President in 1937. For the first time, a "completely outfitted and organized" baseball team represents the College in competitive play. A new liberal arts program is introduced, with the first two years of college being devoted to general education. A men's golf team is formed.
 During this period, women's sports consist of intramural play only. All women who participate in athletics belong to the Women's Athletic Association and are assigned to one of two teams; Harvard and Yale. Women who belong to the W.A.A. also influence much of the social calendar for the college. They plan events such as the Country Fair, the Victory Tea, the W.A.A. Formal, the Snow Train, the Poverty Party and the Mock Man Dance.
The Men's Athletic Association launches the New Deal program. This enables the M.A.A. to send a student to the New York Conference. Through this program, the M.A.A. also carries out an Armistice Day program in which male students demonstrate the futility of war via the enactment of various pre- and post war scenes.
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| Toys and Games |
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Parker Brothers' "Sorry!," Mickey Mouse dolls, Radio Flyer "Streak-O-Life," Monopoly and the View Master.
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