The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In 1936, he married Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw, widow of a wealthy industrialist, George Tuttle Brokaw.

On August 12, 1936, the temperature at Seymour reached, the highest temperature ever recorded in the state of Texas.

From 1936 to 1939, he was in Spain, photographing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, along with Gerda Taro, his companion and professional photography partner, and David Seymour.

She was married twice, firstly to Wills Conner, which ended in divorce and secondly to Seymour Berkson in 1936, which ended with his death in 1959.

* 1935 – 1936: George Seymour

* 1936: George Seymour

* 1936 – 1940: George Seymour

Established in 1936, the park is in a mountain wilderness setting and several mountain peaks lie within its boundaries, including Mount Bishop, Mount Elsay, Runner Peak, and Mount Seymour.

The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

* NARA film: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1936

* 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.

He helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purge of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed, after two and a half months of interrogation, at the Trial of the Seventeen ( 1937, also called the Second Moscow Trial ).

The anti – Trotsky campaign culminated in the executions ( official and unofficial ) of the Moscow Trials ( 1936 – 38 ), which were part of the Great Purge of Old Bolsheviks ( who had led the Revolution ).

Stalin unleashed the Great Terror campaign against alleged " socially dangerous " and " counterrevolutionary " persons that resulted in the Great Purge of 1936 – 1938 during which 1. 5 million people were arrested from 1937 – 1938 and 681, 692 of those were executed.

He was a member of the Politburo ( 1924 – 1929 ) and Central Committee ( 1917 – 1937 ), chairman of the Communist International ( Comintern, 1926 – 1929 ), and the editor in chief of Pravda ( 1918 – 1929 ), the journal Bolshevik ( 1924 – 1929 ), Izvestia ( 1934 – 1936 ), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1936 of a 12-ounce bottle.

The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ) is a musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

He was the chief defendant in a 1936 show trial, the Trial of the Sixteen that marked the start of the so-called Great Terror in the USSR and resulted in his execution the day after his conviction in August 1936.

Nikitchenko presided over some of the most notorious of Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purges of 1936 to 1938, where he among other things sentenced Kamenev and Zinoviev.

Wellsian dream of World Brain was first expressed in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, November 20th, 1936.

During the middle of the Great Depression, the Elizabethton, Tennessee city government utilized labor and resources provided by WPA to complete a newly established, nine-hole municipal golf course on seventy acres of land that was deeded in 1936 to the city for $ 1. 00 by local golfers.

From 1936 to 1938, Tadeusz Brzeziński was posted to the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

A. Milchakov, Berg's connection to the invention of the gas van ( already used in 1936 ) has never been conclusively proven, and Berg himself was summarily executed during the Great Purge in 1939.

Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's " The Gold Diggers ' Song ( We're in the Money )" from Gold Diggers of 1933 ( 1933 ), " Music Makes Me " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Irving Berlin's " Let Yourself Go " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), the Gershwins ' " Embraceable You " from Girl Crazy and " They All Laughed ( at Christopher Columbus )" from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

In " The Whisperer in Darkness " Nyarlathotep's name is spoken frequently by the Mi-Go in a reverential or ritual sense, indicating that they worship or honor the entity, and in " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ), the " hideous secret of Nyarlathotep " is revealed to the protagonist during his period spent in pre-cambrian earth by Khephnes, another prisoner of the Great Race.

In addition, he claimed the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1936 – 41 ) and King of the Albanians ( 1939 – 43 ), which were unrecognised by the Great Powers.

* The Defense of the Great Wall ( 1933 ) of Rehe ( province ) and subsequent Actions in Inner Mongolia ( 1933 – 1936 )

The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled agricultural farming led to the Dust Bowl.

He was commissioned to produce a sequence of seven bas-relief panels for the facade of The People's Palace, now the Great Hall of Queen Mary College University of London, opened in 1936.

* 1936 – Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.

He first presented Jerome Kern's " The Way You Look Tonight " in Swing Time ( 1936 ); the Gershwins ' " They Can't Take That Away From Me " in Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), " A Foggy Day " and " Nice Work if You Can Get it " in A Damsel in Distress ( 1937 ); Johnny Mercer's " One for My Baby " from The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ) and " Something's Gotta Give " from Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ); and Harry Warren and Arthur Freed's " This Heart of Mine " from Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

* The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 )

She made four films in close succession with William Powell: Libeled Lady ( 1936 ), which also starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which she played Billie Burke opposite Powell's Florenz Ziegfeld, the second " Thin Man " film, After the Thin Man with Powell and James Stewart, and the romantic comedy Double Wedding ( 1937 ).

Introduced by Fanny Brice in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1936.

Thalberg went against consensus and took another risk with The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), costarring Luise Rainer.

His best-known film appearance prior to The Wizard of Oz was The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which he portrayed himself.

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1936

They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.

After Ziegfeld's death, his widow Billie Burke authorized use of his name for Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and 1936 to Jake Shubert, who then produced the Follies.

The 1936 Best Picture winner was The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell as the master showman and co-starring Myrna Loy ( as Ziegfeld's second wife Billie Burke ), Luise Rainer ( as Anna Held, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress ), and Frank Morgan.

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 at the Winter Garden Theatre

She appeared as part of a brief walk-on in the 1935 film Becky Sharp, as well as the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld.

Minnelli later worked on The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Hooray for What !, Very Warm for May, and The Show is On.

In 1936, MGM filmed a sanitized biopic of Florenz Ziegfeld ( The Great Ziegfeld ), a film that won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actress ( Luise Rainer as Ziegfeld's common-law wife, Anna Held ).

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 – 1936

William Powell as Ziegfeld in The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 )