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April 1, 1933
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Headlines from April 1, 1933
MEASURE IN FORCE TODAY; Will Resume Wednesday to 'Annihilate' Jews if Attacks Go On. JUDGES PUT OUT OF COURT. Jewish Lawyers in Prussia Limited in Proportion to the Population. STORES CLOSED IN MUNICH Hitlerite Rifles Block Way to Jewish Shops as the Drive Opens Early There. HITLERITES LIMIT BOYCOTT TO A DAY
On anti-Jewish boycott
SWEEPING INQUIRY ON BANKING ASKED; Fletcher Replies to Morgan With Resolution to Sift All Financial Concerns. HARRIMAN AIRING SOUGHT Costigan Demands That Justice Department Be Investigated by Senate Group for 'Delay.' SWEEPING INQUIRY ON BANKING ASKED
Offers resolution for inquiry of Justice Dept for failure to act publicly on Harriman Natl Bank & Trust Co
$212,071,341 BUDGET CARRIED AT ALBANY; Senate Acts Unanimously, but 33 in Assembly, Including a Democrat, Are Opposed. LEHMAN'S WORK PRAISED $16,250,650 Additional Is Appropriated From Bond Issues for Public Building. $212,071,341 BUDGET CARRIED AT ALBANY
Budget passed by both houses
PRESIDENT FACES $230,000,000 PLEA FOR A TREATY NAVY; Construction Program Backed by Swanson Will Go to White House Tuesday. HOUSE CHIEFS FAVOR IT Outlay Would Be Spread Over Three Years, With $46,000,000 in the First. AID FOR JOBLESS URGED Twenty Destroyers, 5 Cruisers, 4 Submarines and a Plane Carrier Are Sought. ROOSEVELT TO GET TREATY NAVY-PLEA
Construction program backed by Swanson calls for $230,000,000 outlay spread over 3 years and includes 20 destroyers, 5 cruisers, 4 submarines end a plane carrier
Notable Births
1933Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Algerian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris).
1933Dan Flavin, American sculptor and educator (died 1996)[†]
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.

1933Bengt Holbek, Danish folklorist (died 1992)[†]
Bengt Holbek was a Danish folklorist known for his unorthodox approach to folklore theory. He wrote one of the definitive works of fairy tale scholarship entitled Interpretation of Fairy Tales (1987).
Historical Events
1933The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.[†]
Nazism, formally named National Socialism, is the far-right totalitarian ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently called Hitler Fascism and Hitlerism. The term "neo-Nazism" is applied to far-right groups formed after World War II with similar ideology.