On this day
December 1, 1933
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Headlines from December 1, 1933
BRITAIN IS ASSURED ON OUR MONEY PLAN; Bingham Says We Are as Safe From Unbridled Inflation as Are the British.
Amb Bingham defends Roosevelt's policy; likens R F C gold purchase fund to Brit exch equalization fund; Financial Times comment
GORDON SAYS HE GOT UP TO $300 A WEEK; Swears He Was Only a Cog in Gang, That Loans and Wife's Gems Paid for Luxuries.
Trial in income-tax evasion case; testifies in own defense
SCOTTSBORO CASE GIVEN TO THE JURY WHICH IS LOCKED UP; Judge, Drawing Color Line, Calls for 'Protecting Womanhood' of Any Character.
Scottsboro case
Professor Sprague Will Return to Harvard To Teach New Course of Business Economics
O M W Sprague to offer new course in business economics
Notable Births
1933Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)[โ ]
Louis Allen Rawls was an American baritone singer. He released 61 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably the song "You'll Never Find Another Love like Mine". He also worked as a film, television, and voice actor. He was a three-time winner of the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Grammy Award.
1933Violette Verdy, French ballerina (died 2016)[โ ]
Violette Verdy was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government.
Notable Deaths
1933Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (born 1865)[โ ]
Pekka Halonen was a Finnish painter of landscapes and people in the national romantic and Realist styles.