N E W D E A L N E T W O R K | |
October 24 | |
| 1904 | Birth date of Moss Hart, playwright and stage director. (died 12/20/61) |
| 1929 | A weeks-long decline in stock prices leads to panic, and 13 million shares are sold. |
| 1931 | Al Capone is found guilty of income tax evasion and sentenced to eleven years imprisonment. |
| 1931 | New York's George Washington bridge, at 1,644 feet the world's largest suspension bridge, opens, spanning the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey. |