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1932
 
     
Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan star as Tarzan and Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man, the first of countless Tarzan talkies        
1932
 
     
16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer        
1932
 
    
US author Damon Runyon publishes his first collection of stories about low-life New York, under the title Guys and Dolls       
1932
 
    
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris       
1932
 
    
The incumbent president, Republican Herbert Hoover, suffers a heavy defeat by Democrat F.D. Roosevelt in the US election       
1932
 
    
George V reads on radio a Christmas address (written by Rudyard Kipling), beginning an annual royal tradition       
1932
 
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Unemployment in Germany rises during the world-wide depression to the unprecedented level of 6 million     
1932
 
    
English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia       
1932
 
    
English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic       
c. 1932
 
  
The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life     
Graham Sutherland, self-portrait, 1977
National Portrait Gallery, London

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