1930s
The 1930s contain 75 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-11-04 | Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · arms manufacturers · isolationists · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1939-09-06 | Roosevelt Proclamation Consolidates All Domestic Intelligence Under FBI, Creating Peacetime Intelligence Monopoly
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Naval Intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1939-08-02 | Hatch Act Restricts Federal Workers' Political Activity After Allegations of WPA Election Interference
3 src Carl Hatch · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Works Progress Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1939-04-03 | Reorganization Act of 1939: FDR Creates Executive Office of the President, Permanent Staff Infrastructure of Modern Presidency
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Louis Brownlow · Charles Merriam · Luther Gulick · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1939-02-27 | Supreme Court Rules in NLRB v. Fansteel That Sit-Down Strikers Can Be Lawfully Fired Despite Employer Violations
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · National Labor Relations Board · Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation · organized labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1938-07-30 | Henry Ford Receives Nazi Grand Cross of the German Eagle on 75th Birthday, Hitler's Highest Honor for Foreigners
3 src Henry Ford · Adolf Hitler · Ford Motor Company · Nazi Germany | confirmed | |
| 1938-06-25 | Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1938-06-16 | Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph O'Mahoney · Thurman Arnold · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1938-05-26 | Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration
3 src Martin Dies Jr. · John Garner · U.S. House of Representatives · Franklin D. Roosevelt | confirmed | |
| 1938-04-29 | FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · concentrated corporate interests | confirmed | |
| 1938-01-01 | FHA Underwriting Manual Formalizes Racial Covenants, Physical Segregation
3 src Federal Housing Administration · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | confirmed | |
| 1937-07-22 | Senate Defeats FDR Court-Packing Plan 70-22, Handing Roosevelt His Greatest Legislative Defeat
3 src U.S. Senate · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Senate Judiciary Committee · Joseph Robinson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation
3 src Republic Steel · Tom Girdler · Bethlehem Steel · Youngstown Sheet and Tube · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1937-06-01 | IBM's Thomas Watson Receives Nazi Merit Cross of the German Eagle as IBM Profits from Punch Card Technology
3 src Thomas J. Watson · Adolf Hitler · IBM · Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH (Dehomag) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-30 | Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago Police Kill Ten Strikers and Wound 90 at Republic Steel Using Corporate-Supplied Weapons
4 src Chicago Police Department · Republic Steel Corporation · Steel Workers Organizing Committee · striking workers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-26 | Battle of the Overpass - Ford Motor Company Thugs Brutally Attack UAW Organizers in Planned Assault at River Rouge
3 src Ford Motor Company · Harry Bennett · Ford Service Department · United Auto Workers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-01 | Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau Jr. · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-04-12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Owen Roberts · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-03-29 | West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Owen Roberts · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory
3 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Alfred Sloan Jr. · William Knudsen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Supreme Court of the United States · John Nance Garner · Hatton Sumners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · Burton Wheeler · Henry Ashurst · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-01-11 | Battle of the Running Bulls - Flint Police and GM Security Forces Attack Sit-Down Strikers with Tear Gas and Gunfire
3 src United Auto Workers · Flint Police Department · General Motors security forces · Fisher Body Plant 2 strikers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants
4 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Fisher Body workers · Bob Travis · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-09-01 | Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act
3 src Remington Rand · James Rand Jr. · National Association of Manufacturers · La Follette Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-08-24 | Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Cordell Hull · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power
4 src U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage
3 src Robert La Follette Jr. · U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-25 | Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner
3 src Al Smith · American Liberty League · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Jouett Shouse · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network
2 src La Follette Committee · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · Corporations Service Bureau · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-06 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Owen J. Roberts · Harlan Fiske Stone · William M. Butler · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-01 | Harlon Carter Joins U.S. Border Patrol Beginning Rise to Chief of Border Control | ||
| 1935-11-09 | Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism
3 src John L. Lewis · United Mine Workers of America · Sidney Hillman · David Dubinsky · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-09-08 | Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation
3 src Huey Long · Carl Weiss · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Share Our Wealth Society · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Business community · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Electric utility industry · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-23 | Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Marriner Eccles · Carter Glass · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · American Liberty League · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Robert Wagner · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-07-01 | Bureau of Investigation Formally Renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation, Professionalization Era Begins
2 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-27 | "Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Benjamin Cardozo · Harlan Fiske Stone · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · William E. Humphrey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-11 | Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Morris Cooke · private utility companies · farmer cooperatives · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign
6 src National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Lund · Du Pont · General Motors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
3 src Smedley Butler · McCormack-Dickstein Committee · Gerald MacGuire · J.P. Morgan interests · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1934-08-22 | American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal
3 src Irénée du Pont · John Jacob Raskob · Jouett Shouse · Al Smith · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-27 | Federal Housing Administration Created, Institutionalizes Racial Segregation
3 src Federal Housing Administration · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-19 | Communications Act of 1934 Creates FCC and Consolidates Federal Media Regulation Under Public Interest Standard
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Federal Radio Commission | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-19 | Office of Legal Counsel Established in DOJ Reorganization; Becomes Binding Interpreter of Executive Authority
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · U.S. Department of Justice · Office of Legal Counsel | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-16 | Pecora Commission Issues Final Report on Wall Street Corruption
3 src Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Duncan Fletcher | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Ferdinand Pecora · Richard Whitney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
3 src Gerald Nye · U.S. Senate · J.P. Morgan Jr. · Pierre du Pont · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1934-01-30 | Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Wall Street · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
9 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Recovery Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework
3 src Home Owners' Loan Corporation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Real estate appraisers | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Creates "Residential Security" Maps: The Federal Government Invents Redlining
3 src Home Owners' Loan Corporation · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Franklin D. Roosevelt | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Huston Thompson · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-24 | J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed
4 src J.P. Morgan Jr. · J.P. Morgan and Company · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-23 | Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock
3 src Albert H. Wiggin · Chase National Bank · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-18 | Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · George Norris · U.S. Congress · Tennessee Valley Authority · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1933-03-31 | Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Robert Fechner · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-03-09 | Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · William Woodin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-03-09 | FDR Invokes Trading with the Enemy Act in Peacetime for Bank Holiday: Wilson-Era Wartime Statute Becomes Domestic Emergency Instrument
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau · William Woodin · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1933-03-06 | FDR Declares National Bank Holiday, Closing All Banks to Stop Collapse of Financial System
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Banking industry · Federal Reserve · American depositors | confirmed | |
| 1933-02-21 | Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace
4 src Charles E. Mitchell · National City Bank · National City Company · Ferdinand Pecora · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-01-15 | Ferdinand Pecora Appointed Chief Counsel to Senate Banking Investigation
3 src Ferdinand Pecora · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed | |
| 1932-07-28 | MacArthur Uses Tanks and Tear Gas to Violently Suppress Bonus Army of 43,000 Veterans
3 src Douglas MacArthur · Herbert Hoover · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Walter Waters · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1932-03-02 | Senate Banking Committee Launches Investigation into Wall Street Crash
3 src U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher | confirmed | |
| 1931-07-20 | Albert Fall Enters Prison as First Cabinet Member Incarcerated for Felony Crimes
3 src Albert Fall | confirmed | |
| 1931-06-01 | Banking Crisis Accelerates with 2,300 Bank Failures in 1931 as Hoover Resists Federal Intervention
4 src Herbert Hoover · Federal Reserve · American bankers · depositors | confirmed | |
| 1931-03-03 | Harlon Carter Age 17 Shoots and Kills 15-Year-Old Ramón Casiano in Laredo Texas | ||
| 1930-06-17 | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Enacts Corporate Protectionism Despite Economist Warnings
3 src Herbert Hoover · Reed Smoot · Willis C. Hawley · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1930-04-30 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Founded Under Friedman, Institutional Ancestor of NSA
3 src William F. Friedman · U.S. Army Signal Corps · Signal Intelligence Service · War Department | confirmed |