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The USS Panay incident was a Japanese bombing attack on the U.S. Navy river gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River near the Chinese capital of Nanjing on December 12, 1937. Japan and the United States were not at war at the time.
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York); Vice President: John Nance Garner (D-Texas); Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes (); Speaker of the House of Representatives: William B. Bankhead (D-Alabama)
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage is a 1937 newsreel of the strike at Republic Steel on Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, which escalated into a massacre when Chicago police fired on protestors (1937 Memorial Day massacre). Ten protesters were killed by the police and thirty others suffered gunshot wounds.
The UAW's strike has punctuated a year of labor unrest in a moment that hearkens to 1937 when workers emulated the autoworkers' sit-down strikes.
In the wake of the massacre, newsreel footage of the event was suppressed for fear of creating, in the words of an official at Paramount News agency, "mass hysteria." ." Initial news coverage of the event instead framed the crowd as a violent threat to social order, arguing that police merely acted in self
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. This article is about the year 1937. For the 2005 EP by Soul-Junk, see 1937 (EP). 1937 January February March April May June July August September October November December Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1910s 1920s ...
The London School, a large structure of steel and concrete, was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $1 million (roughly $22.3 million today [3]). Its football team, the London Wildcats (a play on the term " wildcatter ", for an oil prospector), played in one of the first stadiums in the state to have electric lights.
The following events occurred in June 1937: June 1, 1937 ... Ford C. Frick for referring to Frick and umpire George Barr as "the two biggest crooks in baseball today