1937
12 verified events recorded in 1937.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-22 | Senate Defeats FDR Court-Packing Plan 70-22, Handing Roosevelt His Greatest Legislative Defeat 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 United Auto Workers · Flint Police Department · General Motors security forces · Fisher Body Plant 2 strikers · +3 | confirmed |