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News and Events of 1925

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Sir Austen Chamberlain (UK) and Charles G. Dawes (US)

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President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 115,829,000

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Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Federal spending:   $2.92 billion
Consumer Price Index:   17.5
Unemployment:   3.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Pittsburgh d. Washington (4-3)

Victoria (WCHL) d. Montreal (3-1)

Women: Suzanne Lenglen d. J. Fry (6-2 6-0)
Men: Rene Lacoste d. J. Borotra (6-3 6-3 4-6 8-6)

Flying Ebony

Alabama (CFRA, HF) (10-0-0) & Dartmouth (DS) (8-0-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: So Big, Edna Ferber
Drama: They Knew What They Wanted, Sidney Howard

Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)

Miss America: Fay Lamphier (CA)

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Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera format.
Sergei Eisenstein makes Potemkin, a revolutionary portrait of mutiny aboard a battleship. In the hands of Eisenstein, montage is raised to the highest structural role in filmmaking, serving as the unifying element of the medium.
Ben-Hur, costing a record-setting $3.95 million to produce, is released.