LIFE 1931
Historical Highlights from 1931 :
- Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
- “The Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes national anthem.
- The Empire State Building is completed.
- General Motors’s Frigidaire makes refrigerators safe for household use.
- The original film version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi is released.
- Dick Tracy made its debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper.
- The Emerson iron lung is perfected just in time for the growing polio epidemic.
- The International Bible Students Association[3] adopts the name Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Lake of the Ozarks reservoir completed.
- Nevada legalizes gambling.
- Please choose product options by visiting Life Magazine – February 6, 1931 (# 2518) - Catch of the Day.
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