LIFE 1925
Historical Highlights from 1925 :
- Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
- Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.
- Ben-Hur, costing a record-setting $3.95 million to produce, is released.
- The New Yorker magazine publishes its first issue.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
- The Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order catalog.
- Biology school teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- The weekly country music radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast as the “WSM Barn Dance”.
- New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.
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