1932 Headline News
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are elected President and Vice President on the Democratic ticket.
Germany lifts ban on Nazi storm troopers.
Use of the death penalty in federal kidnapping cases is passed because of anger over Charles Lindbergh's son's kidnapping and murder. Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic.
The Depression reaches a low point making the average monthly unemployment 12 million.
The neutron is discovered by English physicist James Chadwick.


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