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Lr on M R Hutchinson's invention to improve gasoline engine
Receives note of daughter's (Mrs J M K Miller) safety; por
Bennett resents Thomas' statement without his offering alternative policy and says attitude of Brit Labor Govt forces Canada to seek other means for strengthening position; success of 1931 Ottawa conf doubtful
500 Communists march as protest, Wash, D C
Leaves meeting of N Y Churchmen's Assn after members vote to hear B B Lindsey's talk against wishes of Bishop Manning
1930Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)[†]
Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.
1930David Piper, English race car driver[†]
David Ruff Piper is a British former Formula One and sports car racing driver from England. He participated in 3 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 July 1959. He scored no championship points.
1930Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.[†]
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Germany.