Year of record

1936

10 verified events recorded in 1936.

10 events From Jan 1, 1936 To Dec 30, 1936 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
1936-12-30UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants 4 src
United Auto Workers · General Motors · Walter Reuther · Frank Murphy
confirmed
1936-12-21United 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 · John Marshall
 confirmed
1936-09-01Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act 3 src
National Association of Manufacturers
 confirmed
1936-08-24Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
1936-06-19Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power 4 src
U.S. Congress · Federal Trade Commission
 confirmed
1936-06-06La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage 3 src
U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +1
 confirmed
1936-01-25Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Du Pont family
confirmed
1936-01-15La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network 2 src
Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · U.S. Steel
 confirmed
1936-01-06Supreme 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 · Harlan Fiske Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Agriculture
confirmed
1936-01-01Harlon Carter Joins U.S. Border Patrol Beginning Rise to Chief of Border Control