The Senate's First Elected Woman
On January 12, 1932, Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway to the U.S. Senate with 92 percent of the vote — the first woman ever elected to that chamber.
Tales from the year 1932
Depression-Era Los Angeles Invented the Modern Olympics
On July 30, 1932, Los Angeles opened the Xth Olympiad in the depths of the Great Depression — and quietly reinvented how the Olympic Games are staged forever.