* 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founder of the Jewish Defense League ( d. 1990 )

1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.

Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932.

Kahane was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1932 to an Orthodox Jewish family.

In 1932 a number of Heydrich's enemies began to spread rumours of his alleged Jewish ancestry.

* Maccabiah Games, first held in 1932, for Jewish athletes worldwide.

The Organization for Jewish Colonisation in the Soviet Union, a Jewish Communist organization in North America, successfully encouraged the immigration of some US residents, such as the family of George Koval, which arrived in 1932.

After receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1932, Strauss left his position at the Academy of Jewish Research in Berlin for Paris.

In 1932 he married Natascha Jasny, born in Russia to mixed parentage ( her mother was Christian, her father, Jewish ).

The First Preparatory World Jewish Conference was held in Geneva in August 1932.

Kmoch and his Jewish wife Trudy lived in the Netherlands from 1932 to 1947.

An anti-Semitic publication " Die jüdische Überlegenheit " ( The Jewish Supremacy ) attacking the Jews circulated in 1927 at a local gathering of fascist sympathizers In 1932 the local pharmacist Leo Frankenstein was attacked ; a hand grenade was thrown into his home.

In November 1932, about one year before right-wing parties gave Hitler the Chancellorship, Globke wrote a set of rules to make it harder in Prussia for Germans of Jewish ancestry to change their last names into less recognizably Jewish names, albeit no similar limitations existed for other Germans ; and he followed up with the guidelines for implementation in December 1932.

Moses Alexander ( November 13, 1853 – January 4, 1932 ) was the second elected Jewish governor of a US state, serving as the 11th Governor of Idaho from 1915 until 1919.

In 1932 – 1933 he led the Combat League of the Commercial Middle Class ( NS-Kampfbund für den Gewerblichen Mittelstand ), an organisation allegedly " Deflecting Jewish Atrocity and Boycott-Mongering ", participating in the boycott of Jewish businesses and other forms of persecution.

The Japanese occupation of northeast China in 1931 and the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932 had a negative impact on the Harbin Jewish community ( 13, 000 in 1929 ).

Continuing at Leipzig as Privatdozent ( unsalaried senior lecturer who may be called to a professorship ), he became, in 1932, Professor extraordinary ( full professor without a chair ) of Late Jewish Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy, the only such position within a German university.

In late 1932, Odets began writing a play about a middle-class Jewish family in the Bronx, initially called I Got the Blues.

The ensuing terror campaign began with the ambush and murder of three members of Kibbutz Yagur, a failed bombing attack on outlying Jewish homes in Haifa in early 1932, and several operations that killed or wounded some four members of northern Jewish settlements.

* 1932 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest ( d. 2003 )

Donald Henry Rumsfeld ( born July 9, 1932 ) is an American politician and businessman.

* 1932 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman

* 1854 – George Eastman, American businessman and inventor of Roll film, founded the Eastman Kodak Company ( d. 1932 )

* 2012 – Barton Biggs, American investor and businessman ( b. 1932 )

* 1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company ( d. 1932 )

** Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman ( b. 1932 )

His New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, in which he played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travelers in a creepy remote Welsh manor.

* Chuck Canfield ( b. 1932 ), American businessman and former mayor of Rochester, Minnesota

His other disguises include businessman Henry Arnaud, who first appeared in Green Eyes, Oct. 1932, elderly gentleman Isaac Twambley, who first appeared in No Time For Murder, and Fritz, who first appeared in The Living Shadow, Apr.

* Henry L. Bridges ( 1874 – 1939 ), a businessman originally from Athens ; mayor of nearby Minden, Louisiana, from 1928 to 1932 and 1934 to 1936

* George E. Nowotny, retired Tulsa businessman and Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Fort Smith, was born in New Braunfels in 1932.

* Colonel William Macconnachie of Knowsie, JP ( 1848 – 1932 ): businessman, local politician and Provost of Fraserburgh.

* J. Enoch Thompson ( 1846 – 1932 ), Canadian politician, diplomat, writer, and businessman

King Camp Gillette ( January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932 ) was an American businessman popularly associated with the safety razor, although several models were in existence prior to Gillette's design.

Stephen Richards Covey ( October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012 ) was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker.

* Gérard Louis-Dreyfus ( born 1932 ), French-American businessman ( Louis Dreyfus Group ), father of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cousin of Robert Louis-Dreyfus

John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC, DL ( born 22 June 1932 ) is a businessman and British Conservative Party politician and the current Chancellor of Brunel University.

* Dave Thomas ( American businessman ) ( 1932 – 2002 ), founder, former chairman & spokesperson of the North American Wendy's fast-food chain

John Williston ( Bud ) Bird, ( born March 22, 1932 in Fredericton, New Brunswick ) is a Canadian businessman who is a former mayor of the city of Fredericton, a Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, and a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Sir Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury ( born 11 June 1932 ) is a politician and businessman in the United Kingdom.

* Harry Lonsdale ( born 1932 ), American scientist, businessman, and former politician

Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge ( 1860 – November 11, 1932 ) was a businessman and promoter of patent fiberboard, and the first chairman of the interstate agency known then as the Port of New York Authority.

It was created in 1932 for the Welsh businessman, Liberal Member of Parliament and philanthropist, David Davies.