Chronology of the Year 1937 Compiled by E W Pickard
A compact chronicle of 1937 events across the U S and world noting political moves, labor strife, court actions, and international affairs from January through December. Key entries include Roosevelt administrations measures, major strikes, Supreme Court actions, and escalating tensions in Europe and Asia. The record lists dates and brief headlines, highlighting notable shifts in policy and conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Department of Interior
Wills van Devanter
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
CCC
Jones & Laughlin Steel
Congress
Chicago
Roosevelt
TVA
John D. Rockefeller
Youngstown
Ohio
White House
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Cambria
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Sebastona Steel
Ellis Parker, Sr
Newark
N. J
New York
Johnstown
Butler Wright
Cuba
National Labor Relations Board
Ford
Buenos Aires
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Ohio Grand Jury
Ford Company
Dave H Morris
Belgium
Hugh Gibson
Brazil
Harry Parker
Ways and Means
United States
Ohio Basin
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
J. Houghteling
San Francisco
George A. Gordon
Netherlands
Leo J. Keena
Michigan
Honduras
Franklin Mott Gunther
Florida
Romania
F. P
Hugo L. Black
Bibb Graves
Alabama
Dixie Bibb Graves
Hugo Black
Panama Canal
New York C. I. O
Hee
Will Rogers
Col. H. B. Hackett
Andrew Melion
A. F of L. Council
World Labor Federation
Labor
Edward McGrady
Secretary of Labor
O. H. Mennet
Los Angeles
Ku Klux Klan
John Roosevelt
Anne Clark
Boston
James E Landis
Securities and Exchange Commission
la Guardia
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
Expeor Enery
Brady
Brussels
John E Miler
Arkansas
Joseph
Robinson Nathan Straus
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
M . Taylor
United States Eel
Federal Reserve Board
World Events Preview From Early 20th Century Ledger
A compendium of political shifts and notable milestones from 1930s and 1940s histories. Key figures include Chang, Chiang Kai-shek, Hirota, and De Valera, with events spanning coups, constitutional changes, and major international alignments across Japan Germany Britain and the Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Chang
Chiang Kai-shek
Juliana
Netherlands
Bernhard zu_Lippe-Buesterfeld
George Bonnet
United States
Guelph
Ontario
Hirota
Japan
Arl Radek
Moscow
Stalin
Germany
Hamburg
Luebeck
Karl Radek
Senjuro Hayashi
Mexico
Schuschnigg
Austria
Hapsburg Dynasty
Valencia
Mar Contrabrico
Mangukuo
China
India
Burma
Aden
Belgium
Francisco Franco
Poland
de Valera
Irish Free State
London
George VI
Elizabeth
Great Britain
Caballero
Juan Negrin
Paris
Wallis Warfield
Monts
France
Russia
Bilbao
Blum
Camille Chautemps
Soviet Far East
Martin Niemoeller
Covadonga
Spain
Marta Rocafort
Havana
Pope Pius
Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Eamon de Valera
Republic of Liberia
Farouk I
Montfaucon
Syria
Sanander
Ecree
Paraguay
Hjalmar Schacht
Italy
Pacz
Ecuador
Alberto Enriquez
van Zeeland
Barcelona
Vargas
Brazil
Grand Duke
George of Hesse
Duke of Windsor
Duc de Guise
Soviet
Pius
Long list of notable deaths in early 20th century obituary column
A chronological necrology lists numerous prominent figures from finance, politics, science, the arts, and military service. Names include Albert Grleaves, Clarence Eddy, Julius Steiglitz, Martin Johnson, Elihu Root, John D Rockefeller Sr., George Gershwin, Guglielmo Marconi, Edith Wharton, Lord Rutherford, Felix Warburg, Ramsay MacDonald, and J O McKinsey among others with dates from January through December.
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E. V. R. Thayer
New York
D. W MacCormack
Albert Grleaves
Charles Hayden
Clarence Eddy
Chicago
Julius Steiglitz
Martin Johnson
R. D Cary
United States
Wyoming
Clarence A. Barbour
Brown University
M. J. Gallagher
Deroit
H. G. Lloyd
Philadelphia
Eugene M. Stevens
Sir Percival Phillips
W. W. Durbin
Register of United States Treasury
Elihu Root
W. T. Hornaday
Stamford
Conn
Mary L. Requa
California
H. W. Butner
Panama Canal Zone
Elihu Thompson
Richmond P. Z Tobson
Austen Chamberlain
B. B. Moeur
Arizona
Harry Vardon
Edwin S. Stuart
Pennsylvania
Frederick MacMonnies
John Drinkwater
Frank Mande
J. B Frazier
Tennessee
William A. Butler
Boston
Earnet
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincoln
Talcott Powell
Albert Bigelow Paine
Ralph Incelm
England
Everett Brown
Lars Anderson
W Forbes Morgan
Democratic National Committee
Gus Hill
N. L. Bachman
W. F. McDowell
Washington
John G Pollard
Veterans’ Administration Board of Appeals
Virginia
William Gillette
Norman Hapgood
C G Billings
Harry S. New
Indiana
Feneral
Paul Chabas
Louis F Swift
John L. Clem
Chickamauga
San Antonio
John Burke
Minnesota
C. H Haskins
Harvard
Viscount Snowden
Percy Gassoway
Oklahoma
Henry Roraback
Connecticut
John D Rockefeller
Ormond Beach
Manuel Teltez
Edward F. Dunne
Illinois
J_ V_ Chase
Edward Albright
Costa Rica
Frederick E Ives
George F Baker
Jean Harlow
Robert Borden
Charles L. Pack
American Tree Association
W. F P. Connery
Massachusetts
Gaston Doumergue
France
James M. Barrie
Franklin W. Fort
New Jersey
Demarest Lloyd
Colin Clive
Frank A. Vanderlip
George Gershwin
Jack Curley
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Gabriel Pierne
Guglielmo Marconi
Rome
G . Parker
Janesville
A. S Pratt
Federal Communications Commission
J J. Dooling
Tenany
Henry Clews
Admiral Wington
Lady Maude Tree
Frederick Strauss
N E Erwin
Edith Wharton
Heaton
Runciman
Aga
Andrew W. Mellon
John R. Pope
Frederick Opper
Charles F. Thwing
G. H. Simmons
Henry Hadley
Thomas G. Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Ellis Parker Butler
Lott R. Herrick
Ilinois Supreme
William Loeb
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles A. Knorr
Americas
Edward A. Filene
E. T. Emmet
Ambase Savor
Austria
J.N. B. Hewitt
Felix Warburg
George Horace Lorimer
Saturday Evening Post
E. R. Jones
Madison
Wis
Alpert B. Insley
Sir Ae Isherwood
W. Gordon
Ralph Connor
Winet Peg
Francis J. Heney
Santa Monica
Henry M. Robinson
Pasadena
Jack McAuliffe
Johnston Forbes-Roberston
F. P. Garvan
Frederick Ganaghey
Ramsay MacDonald
Pyer
Aliee Pomerene
Leslie Carter
Actoss
John McDowell
Howard Coffin
Sea Island
R Kingsbury
Standard Oil of
Jagadas Chandra Bose
Hinedu NASA
A. S. Burleson
Austin
Texas
Theodore Walters
Interior
J. O. McKinsey
Marshall Field & Co
Jilha Panchen Lama
Pec
Harry G. Leslie
Diana Cr
J. Harrahan
Kate Buckingham
Art Paron
Disasters and Aviation Milestones of 1930s Through 1939
A compiled list of maritime, railway, aviation, and natural disaster events with dates and outcomes. Notable items include the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, Amelia Earhart world flight attempts and milestones, multiple catastrophic fires and floods, and early air races and records credited to pilots and aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orkney Islands
China
Ohio River Valley
Ohio Valley
Everglades Canal
Miami
Fla
Mississippi
Antung
Manchukuo
Wyoming
London Consolidated School
East Texas
Pittsburgh
Lakehurst
N. J
Hongkong
Himalayas
North Western
Evanston
Sullivan
Indy
Atlantic City
Paris
Pan American Grace
Panama
Manila
Scotland
Hoover
Formosa
Western Air Express
Burbank
Calif
United States Army
San Diego
Hawaii
United Air Lines
San Francisco Bay
Amelia Earhart
Oakland
Honolulu
T W. A. Uner
San Francisco
Auckland
New Zealand
Tokyo
London
Dick Merrill
JS. Lambie
New York
Merrill
Lambie
Croydon
North Pole
Ice O
Karachi
India
Moscow
Vancouver
Howland Island
New Guinea
Trece
San Jacinto
Navy
Frank Fuller
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Jean Batten
Australia
Fingland
Rudy Kling
Frank Hayes
Wright Brothers
Western Newspaper Union
Roosevelt demands apologies and guarantees after outrages
President Roosevelt urged apologies and indemnifications and guarantees against repetition of outrages. The article notes that on ec. 15 France and Germany concluded a frontier treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
France
Germany
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sanford Bates
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Ostmaster
Farley
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Plains
Charles Seymour
Yale
United Mine Workers
Green
A. PF
Paul V. McNutt
In- Giena
Philppines
J. G. Wynant
Social Security Board
A. J. Altmeyer
M. W. Latimer
Eugene Vidal
Federal Air Commerce Bureau
C. I. O. Committee
Permanent Maritime Commission
J. P Kennedy
Gulfey
F. E Townsend
United Automobile Workers
Remington Rand
Labor Relations Board
Do. A Dykstra
Cincinnati
Chrysler
Ponce
Puerto Rico
John L. Lewis
Appalachian Fields
S. S. Kresge
Kresge Foundation
Florence Harriman
Norway
A. J. Drexel Bidale
Billon
Gulf of Mexico
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Florence Jaffray Harriman
District of Columbia
Robert Granville Caldwell
Bolivia
War Department
George L Berry
Jones Co & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Agricultute Department
New England
Rand, Jr
P. K. Berghoff
War Woodring
Lindbergh
United
Janopee
League of Nations
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Bulgaria
Hitler
Department of State of
Geneva
International Sea Patrol
Jugoslavia
Hans Dieckhoff
Almeria
Mussolini
Peipin
Peiping
Tanghu
Shanghai
Sharia
Nanking
Portugal
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Amercan
Little Entente
Mediterranean
Canton
Nan Pe
World
Nine-Power Co
Norman H. Davis
Apan
Shania
Far East
Viscount Cecil of
Chelwood
Chahar
Suiyuan
Johnson
Fred J. Perry
Ellsworth Vines
Joe Louis
Bob Pastor
Janae Schaerer
Hoppe
Freddie Steele
Babe Risko
Ilinois
University
Chicago Golden Glove
Oxford
Cambridge
Horton Smith
Atlanta
Detroit Red Wings
Byron Nelson
Augusta
Max Baer
Tommy Parks
Nearbe Shempion
Aorth
Ralph Greenleaf
Ambers
Canzoneri
War Admiral
Sid Richardson
Northwestern
Ane
Europe
Bob Sweeney
Shute
Wilburshaw
Indianapolis
Ralph Gulaahl
Supohanekes
Braddock
Uly N D Budge
Ranger
Wightman
Gar Wood, Jr
Johnny Goodman
Tommy Farr
von Cramm
Henkel
New York Giants
Estelle Page
New York Yankees
Giants
Samuel E. Hoyt
George Eyston
Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
National Baseball League
Washington Redskins
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