Chronology of the Year 1937 Compiled by E W Pickard
A dense listing of events from January to December 1937 across the US political and economic scene. Notable items include Truman era budget requests, Roosevelt’s terms and cabinet moves, court decisions on labor and finance, strikes at General Motors and steel plants, reforms in social security and labor laws, and major legislative actions such as the Wagner act, CCC status, and various deficit bills. The chronology tracks presidential terms, congressional actions, court rulings, and key industrial conflicts shaping 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew W. Mellon
Pat Sam Rayburn
Texas
House
Supreme Court
Oregon
Seventy-fifth
Congress
Roosevelt
Spain
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Board of Regents
General Motors
Senate
RFC
Frankin D. Roosevelt
Sanford Bates
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Ostmaster
Farley
Civil Service
Michigan National Guard
Flint
Plains
Disasters Loan Corporation
Charles Seymour
Yale
United Mine Workers
Green
A. of L
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
Phillies
J. G. Wynant
Social Security Board
A. J. Altmeyer
M. W. Latimer
Eugene Vidal
Federal Air Commerce Bureau
Hig Steel Companies
Co. L
Tech
Permanent Maritime Commission
J. P. Kennedy
Guffey
F. E. Townsend
United Automobile Workers
Remington Rand
Labor Relations Board
C. A. Dykstra
Cincinati
University of Wisconsin, Era
Nnion
Rch
Ponce
Puerto Rico
John L. Lewis
Chrysler
Appalachian Fields
S. S. Kresge
Kresge Foundation
Enate
Florence Harriman
Agriculture Department
New York
Gulf of Mexico
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Pheladelphia
Peare Pareed
Department of
Justice
Wits ‘van Devanter
Senate Judiciary Committee
CCC
Laughlin Steel
C. I.O
Alaams
Batte
Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
Youngstown
Ohio
Kire House
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Sphaeton
Ellis Parker
Newark
N. J
Johnstown
J. Butler Wright
Cuba
National Labor Relations Board
Ford
Buenos Aires
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Guy
Ohio Grand Jury
T—National Labor Relations Board
Ford Company
Jave H. Morris
Belgium
Hugh Gibson
Brazil
Harry Parker
Ways and Means
J. L. Haughtering
White House
Francisco
Turbulent 1937 Far East and Europe War Chronicle
A rapid-fire chronology detailing German seizure of Spanish steamers, shifts in Mediterranean diplomacy, and a widening global crisis with Japan and China. Key events include Germany Italy and Japan alignments, League actions, naval patrols, and major battles or sieges across Spain China and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Italy
League of Nations
Soviet
Russia
Spain
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Hitler
Department of State of
United States
Germany
la Guardia
New York
Geneva
International Sea Patrol
Jugoslavia
Hans Dieckhoff
France
Belgium
Bilbao
Almeria
Great Brigin
Betoasy
O Cepands
Fune
Japan
Peipin
Peiping
Tanghu
Chini
China
Shanghai
Nanking
Portugal
Czechoslovakia
Hunga
Itoken
Unet
Hoover
Little Entente
Mediterranean
Uate
England
Canton
King
Ussolini
E of Nations
Norman A Davis
Far East
Brussels
Duke of Windsor
Aego
Viscount Cecil of Chel
Panay
Yangtae River
Global 1930s chronology notes major events
A dense list of political shifts and conflicts from 1930 through 1931 includes Chang's ten-year sentence in exile, Kaiser's era links, Spanish Civil War movements, German and Italian fascist actions, Japanese cabinet changes, and early World War II era milestones. References include Axis and Allied figures, coups, elections, and state reorganizations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Notable list of deaths and memorials across years
A long obituary chronicle lists notable figures from varied fields who died between January and November. It includes bankers Charles Hayden and Eugene Stevens, scientists Julius Steiglitz and W. T. Hornaday, politicians Elihu Root and James P. Buchanan, artists George Gershwin and John Drinkwater, explorers Martin Johnson and Lars Anderson, and many others with dates and brief descriptors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayer
New York
MacCormack
Albert Gleaves
Charles Ee Hayden
Po Oance Eddy
Chicago
Julius Steigilitz
Martin Johnson
R. D. Cary
Elihu Root
A. F. Schinner
MU. Waukee
C. R. Crisp
Georgia
James P. Buchanan
Texas
Rollo Ogden
New York Times
Henry T. Mayo
Richie Ling
W. T. Hornaday
Stamford
Conn
Iene
Mary L. Requa
California
B. W. Butner
Panama Canal Zone
Elihu Thompson
Beeuch
Admral Hichmond P
Austen Chamberlain
Hantiah
B. B. Moeur
Arizona
Harry Vardon
Edwin & Stuart
Pennsylvania
Federick MacMonnies
John Drinkwater
Frank Mandel
J. B. Frazier
Tennessee
William A. Butler
Boston
Iua
United States
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincoln
Talcott Powell
Apele
Albert Bigelow Paine
Ralph Ince
Agener Brown
Lars Anderson
W. Forbes Morgan
Democratic National Committee
Pegdies
Gus Hill
Senang
Betarr N
Haccara
Viscount Snowden
Ony. Gassoway
Jahoma
J. Henry Roraback
Connecticut
Repucan
Meyer Edward Albright
Costa Rica
Frederick E. Iver
Philadelphia
George F. Baker
Anker
Jean Fete
Ada Robert Borden
Charles L. Pack
American Tree Association
W. FP. Connery
Joseph T. Robinson
Gabriel Pierne
Gugielms Marconi
Parker
Janesville
A. &. Pratl
Federal
Bommilinice Tone Commission
J. Dooling
Tammany
Heni Cleve
Fear
Amir Iw
Wortee I
Lady Maude Tree
Frederick Strauss
N. ¥. Erwin
U. 8
Disasters and Accidents Across 20th Century Europe and Americas
A fragmented chronicle lists numerous disasters and losses: Finnish motorship wrecked near Orney Islands with 31 dead. a passenger killed in a burning train in Cl 2 ot kerene. floods in the Ohio river valley displacing thousands with $500,000 in damage. a ferryboat capsize in Ohio Valley. seventeen drownings aboard in Everglades near Miami. Missis sippi floods forcing mass evacuations. nearly 700 killed in a theater fire in Manchukuo. Marines killed by shell explosion aboard the battleship Wyomin. a London area school explosion kills 455. air and maritime disasters including a carrier crash near Paris and an Amelia Earhart incident. multiple other ship and train accidents, explosions, and drownings noted across across 1920s to 1930s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orney Islands
Ohio River Valley
Ohio Valley
Everglades Anal
Miami
Fla
Mississppi
Natr
Honolulu
Rit Burgh
Pan-Amerie Copper
San Francisc
Gxland
Zealand
Londo Cay Hou
Serman Digi
Ehurst
New Seas
Historic aeronautics scramble and globe speed records noted
The text chronicles wartime era air feats and searches including Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance near Howland Island, Soviet polar flight attempts from Moscow to the Pacific, new non stop mileage records from Moscow to San Jacinto, and other aviators racing for speed and distance in 1930s to wartime context. It mentions Croydon airport, Howland Island, and Bendix trophy related events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mi ‘Ay
Dick Merrill
New York
Merrill
Laphi
Croydon
Uambie
London
Nort Pole
Vancouver
Moscow
Bash
Tune Torn
Amelia Earhart
Howland Island
Aonly
Amellia Earhart
Los Angeles
Cleveland
England
Jean Batten
Australia
S. Bee
Rud
Frank Lille
Wright Beppe
Ir Union
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E. W. Pickard
Neeraereratiorenererat Eee
George L. Berry
Jones Xallahin
Carryin
Watlon Oe
George A. Gordon
Netherlands
Leo J. Keena
Michigan
Honduras
Franklin Mott Gunther
Florida
Rumania
F. P. Corrigan
Panama
Robert Frazer
San Salvador
Senate pAaBs Agner
Will Rogers
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Bibb Graves
Dixie Bibb Graves
United Pistos
Hugo L. Back
Col
H. B. Hackett
Andrew Mellon
A. F. of
L. Council
World Labor Federation
Labor
Edward McGrady
Secretary of Labor
O. H. Mennet
Ku Klux Klan
John Roosevelt
Anne Clark
James E. Landis
Securities and Exchange Commission
Republcans
J.T. Mahoney
John T. Biggers
Toledo
American Legion Convention
W. O. Douglas
SEC
Seattle
Daniel Doherty
American Legion
American Bar Association
Railway Brotherhoods
American Federation of Labor
Denver
America
Justice Black
Brady Gang of Outlaws
G-men
Bangor
Norman H. Davis
John E. Miller
Arkansas
Nathan Straus
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. R. Stettiniue, Jr
M. C. Taylor
United States Eel
Federal Reserve Board
Basates
Prt P
P. L. Berghoff
Onger
Woodring
Lindbergh
Leviathan
Federal Board of Tax Appeals
J. W. Hanes
Jerome Frank
Conese
Orrate
Marshal Chang
Ang Kai-shek Ani
Juliana of
Prince Bernhard
Eador
Sinteane Trenchamneyan
Guelph
Ontario
Hirota
Radek
Eltg Nie
Hamburg
Luebeck
Karl Radek
P Gen
Gniure Hayashi UN
Japa
Malaga
Mexico
Schuschnieg of
Austein
Ayna Airahto
Valencia
Mar Contrabrico
Moneux No. 3
India
Burma
Aden
Ani Paspists
Belgin
Francisco Franco
Apri
Poland
de Valera
Irish Free State
Peiy
King George VI
Dueen Elizabeth
Caballero
Juan Negr
Parish
Soviet Far East
Martin Niemoeller
Iris
Covadonga
Crown Prince
Marta Hocafort Mar Hed
Hay
Che
Paris
Bastile
Pope Pius
Cardinal Mundele
Eamon de Valera
Hjalmar Schacht
1Acepaniah
Valegeaf
Barcelona
Vargas
Grand Duke
George of Hease
fedoNae Stne
Windsor
Ars
Esbout Abi
Duc de Guise
Savioier
Binese
Fred J. Perry
Ellsworth Vines
Nes
Ponce Louis
Bob Pastor
Schaeler
Hoppe
Freddie Steele
Babe Risko
Illinois
Minnesota
University of Michigan
War Admiral
Kentucky
Yeasid Richardson
Northwestern
Arash
Europe
Chiazo
Aeay
Sweeney
Shute
Wilbur Straw
Ea Guidant
Louis Ldi' Ani
Bae
Braddock
Ralph Guldahl
Sepot
Westbury
Greentree
Ross
Ambers
Jeffra
Lew York Yankees
Spreyhound
New York Giante
Estelle Page
New York Yankees
Giants
Harvard
Uianestia
Samuel E. Hoyt
George Eyston
Bonneville Salt Hats
Utah
National Baseball League
Washington Redskins
Tenn
Amer
Soge Mar CG
Masafraten
G. Maseryk
Cou
Shaina Roosavelt
Charles A. Knorr
Eaward A. Filene
Emmet
Austria
Ed Howe
Atchison
Kan
John Griffiths
Oadenhe Mus
Treasury
Nest
Robert Saderwood Johnson
York
Tor
Aiselomat
Grayson Murphy
Od .Feee
Industri Rial
Arene Bruce Ismay
Nate
Cost
Lord Ernest Rutherford
Felix Warburg
George Horace Latimer
Saturday Evening Post
E.R. Jones
Madison
Wis
Albert B. Insley
Joseph Isherwood
C. W. Gordon
Ralph ¢Nor
Winnipeg
Cate Udge
Francis J. Heney
Santa Monica
Henry M. Robinson
Pasadena
Ack McAuliffe
Johnston Forbes-Roberston
I—F. P. Garvan
Exalien Property
Frederick Bobaghey
Ramsay MacDonald
Auex Pomerens
Mru
Leslie Carter
John McDowell
Presbyterians
Howard Sontin
Sea Island
K. Keiiabury
Blancherd Oil
Californ
Silar Jogadae
Governo
Ana
Harrahan
Tsea
Kate ‘Buckingham
Els
San
Pees Tx
Eambe
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