1930s

1930

Orozco creates his Prometheus mural in Frary
1930
 

1931

Big Bridges built
1931
 

1932

Men's Glee Club National Champions
1932
 

1933

Claremont Colleges Artist Series launched

1934

College suffers low point of the Depression

1935

Legendary Earl "Fuzz" Merritt becomes head football coach
1935
 

1936

Pomona's first Asian Studies program established

1937

Busby Berkeley musical shot on campus
1937
 

1938

Great Flood of '38 hits campus
1938
 

1939

Student newspaper cut to two issues per week
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1930

Hostess Twinkies invented

1931

Empire State Building completed

1932

Lindbergh baby kidnapped

1933

Prohibition repealed

1934

Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

1935

Social Security enacted

1936

Spanish Civil War begins

1937

German airship Hindenberg burns

1938

Chamberlain declares "peace in our time"

1939

Germany invades Poland