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Economic talks, Wash
Reorganization of Govt depts will be drastic
Bill passed by Sen, 53-30; Robinson amendment for 36-hour week beaten
New York was wet when beer became legal at midnight last night, but only with the rain. The new 3.2 per cent beer was not available until 6 o'clock this morning. midnight to patrons, guests and reporters was "the real stuff," but the hotel manager, when asked whence the stuff had come merely shrugged his shoulders and refused any direct answer.
1933Wayne Rogers, American actor, investor, and producer (died 2015)[†]
William Wayne McMillan Rogers III was an American actor, known for playing the role of Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre in the CBS television series M*A*S*H and as Dr. Charley Michaels on House Calls (1979–1982).
1933Sakıp Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (died 2004)[†]
Sakıp Sabancı was a Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist.
1933Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)[†]
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 5, 1933.
1933Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.[†]
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.