Alcoholics Anonymous is organized in New York City. The first night baseball game in the major leagues is played on May 24 in Cincinnati between the Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Reds won, 2-1. The Labor Department's national unemployment rate was 20.1 percent, the last time this century it would exceed 20 percent. The rate was 24.9 percent in 1933, the first year the Labor Department reported it, and 21.7 in 1934.
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