At the height of his popularity as a director, Whale directed The Road Back, a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1937.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

In 1937 he was hospitalised with pneumonia, and while recovering he stated that he had a profound spiritual experience that transformed his world view and led him to doubt the practices of modern " Western " agricultural science.

Four churches, St. John's Episcopal Church ( 1882 ), First Baptist ( 1914 ), First Presbyterian ( 1923 ), and St. Matthews Lutheran ( 1935 ); two former hotels, the Eagle Hotel, which survived the 1894 fire, and the Hotel Marianna ( 1910 ); a bank on Main Street built in 1903 ; the McDowell County Courthouse, which was constructed in 1928 ; the Marion Depot ( 1860s ), which is the oldest surviving depot on the Western Rail Line ; the Public Library ( 1937 ), which was originally built as a post office ; and the Marion Community Building, built in 1937.

In 1937 Morris presided over the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, and was Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Western Electric model 302 Telephone, found almost universally in the United States from 1937 until the introduction of touch-tone dialing.

In the Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Money-Making Western Stars poll Autry was listed every year from 1936 to 1942 and 1946 to 1954 ( he was serving in the US Army Air Corps 1943 – 45 ), holding first place 1937 to 1942, and second place ( after Roy Rogers ) 1947 to 1954.

Western Standard Time, which was used in Taiwan and some parts of Okinawa, was abolished by ordinance 529 in 1937.

In 1937, Hugh McClelland introduced his wild Western comic strip Beelzebub Jones in the Daily Mirror.

: Western Division championships: 19 — 1933, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1984

The first senior Soviet bioweaponeer to defect to the West was Vladimir Pasechnik ( 1937 – 2001 ) who alerted Western intelligence in 1989 to the vast scope of Moscow's clandestine program.

Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller ( see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) In the early 1920s African American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself.

( See the sound file above with Duncan singing Rodger's " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) Bob Wills is considered by music authorities to be the co-founder of Western Swing.

* Western Division ( 1 ): 1937

He joined the CSIR-later to become the CSIRO-in 1937 as a temporary research officer for Western Australia.

On April 9, 1937 the Kamikaze, a Mitsubishi aircraft sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun company and flown by Masaaki Iinuma, arrived in London, to the astonishment of the Western world.

Other Broadway roles included Van van Dorn in High Tor ( 1937 ), Liliom in Liliom ( 1940 ), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World ( 1946 ), and Adolphus Cusins Major Barbara ( 1957 ).

Meanwhile, the islands, as well as Taiwan, used Western Standard Time ( UTC + 8 ) until 1937, 1 hour behind the Central Standard Time of Japan ( UTC + 9 ).

This Baldwin 2-8-0 Consolidation-type locomotive was built for the Oneida & Western Railroad in 1916, and was operated from 1937 to 1953 on the Rahway Valley Railroad's New Jersey short line.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Murrah to the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Northern District of Oklahoma, and Eastern District of Oklahoma, on February 8, 1937.

The Western League continued on until 1937, maintaining a close relationship with the American Association, trading franchises back and forth on occasion, and playing post-season series from time to time.

Since 1937, it has followed a distinctive curriculum, the Great Books Program, based on discussion of works from the Western canon of philosophical, religious, historical, mathematical, scientific, and literary works ; it is probably for this program that the school is best known.

On September 27, 1937 the Central Executive Committee decided to abolish the Western Krai, dividing it into Smolensk and Oryol Oblasts.

* September 24, 1937: Toledo, Ohio 12-year-old Robert Snyder shot and wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington public school when she declined his request to call a classmate.

Stoke slipped down the league in an extremely tight 1937 – 38 season, and, annoyed by rumours circulating the city of resentment in the dressing room against him for his England success, Matthews requested a transfer in February ; his request was denied.

* Jungle Ballet ( 1937 ) written at the request of Dmitri Tiomkin

Born as Carl Andrew Spatz, he added the second " a " in 1937 at the request of his wife and daughters to clarify the pronunciation of the name, as many pronounced it " spats ".

In November 1937 he resigned as Minister of Economics and General Plenipotentiary at Göring's request.

In 1937, he first tried to have the project moved to Newark, and when that request was turned down, split his time between the project and his institute in Newark.

Despite misgivings about the methods, he sympathized with the goals underlying the president's Supreme Court " packing " plan, and at Roosevelt's request Clarke made a radio broadcast in March 1937 in which he defended the constitutionality of the proposal.

The SCR-268 was not really suited to this need, and after its demonstration in May they again received a request for a long-range unit, this time from " Hap " Arnold who wrote to them June 3, 1937.

For example, in September 1937, the Dagestan obkom requested the increase of the First Category from 600 to 1, 200 ; the request was granted the next day.

In March 1937, as the King attempted to suppress the influence of the fascist movement known as the Iron Guard, Cristea responded to the request sent by the Tătărescu government on limiting the relationship between the clergy and the Iron Guard.

He shifted to Bombay at the request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and became President of the Bombay Provincial Muslim League in 1937.

At the request of Pope Pius XII, he also served as the first President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences ( 1937 ).

In 1937, the ruler of the princely state of Jodhpur granted the request of the Mali community of Rajputana to be recorded as " Saini " or " Sainik Kshatriya " in official records.

On the request of his tenants, Tagore visited Patisar in 1937 for the last time on the occasion of Punya.

As a result of his family's interest in art, from 1937 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen.

Wilding had four wives, Kay Young ( married 1937, divorced 1951 ), actress Elizabeth Taylor ( married 1952, divorced 1957 ), Susan Nell ( married 1958, divorced 1962 ), and actress Margaret Leighton ( married 1964 until her death in 1976 ).

* Introduction to Mathematics ( with Irvin W. Kay ), Houghton Mifflin, 1937

Great Universal acquired Kay & Company Ltd in 1937, and continued to run its catalogue, Kays, as a separate title.

Kay Janet Denman ( born 22 July 1937 ), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania from 1993 to 2005, representing the Australian Labor Party.

In The New York Times Book Review for September 26, 1937, Kay Irvin said " Agatha Christie can be depended upon to tell a good tale.

Kay Thompson and Her Rhythm Singers joined André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra for the hit series The Chesterfield Radio Program ( CBS, 1936 ), followed by It's Chesterfield Time ( CBS, 1937 ) for which Kay and her large choir were teamed with Hal Kemp and His Orchestra.

For her motion picture debut, Kay and her choir performed two songs in the Republic Pictures musical Manhattan Merry-Go-Round ( 1937 ).