He received the party's Blood Order in 1934 and was still occasionally used as a propaganda tool until about 1937, but he was never again allowed any real power.

Back in London, in September 1937, Gardner applied for and received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Meta Collegiate Extension of the National Electronic Institute, an organisation based in Nevada that was widely recognised by academic institutions as offering invalid academic degrees via post for a fee.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

In 1937, Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Gone with the Wind and the second annual National Book Award from the American Booksellers Association.

With the help of lawyers in August 1937 he was successful in claiming a pension ; he received a cash settlement for his house, which had been taken over by the city of Cologne ; his unpaid mortgage, penalties and taxes were waived.

Some sources have claimed that despite their scientific contributions, neither was given the award because of their animosity toward each other ; that each sought to minimize the other's achievements and right to win the award ; that both refused ever to accept the award if the other received it first ; and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it ( although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915, and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 in 1937 ).

In particular, critics point to the coveted Order of the German Eagle medal that Watson received at the Berlin ICC meeting in 1937, as evidence that he was being honored for the help that IBM's German subsidiary Dehomag ( Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft mbH ) and its punch card machines provided the Nazi regime, particularly in the tabulation of census data.

However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love ( 1937 ) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.

The pro Soviet leader Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang received NKVD assistance in conducting a purge to coincide with Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.

In 1937, Keitel received a promotion to general.

Director Leo McCarey received an Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth, though McCarey himself regarded Make Way for Tomorrow, which he also directed in 1937, as the more deserving film.

Four days after Earhart's last verified radio transmission, on July 6, 1937, the captain of the battleship Colorado received orders from the Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District to take over all naval and coast guard units to coordinate search efforts.

Though a poor student, Kovacs was influenced deeply by his Trenton Central High School drama teacher, Harold Van Kirk, and received an acting scholarship at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1937 with Mr. Van Kirk's help.

At Oberlin, he was captain of the basketball team, and he also took part in varsity baseball, football, and track ; he received his bachelor's degree in English in 1935 and a master's degree in psychology in 1937.

On 9 September 1937, at a time when Shochiku was unhappy about Ozu's lack of box-office success ( despite the praise and awards he received from critics ), the thirty-four-year-old Ozu was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army.

In 1937 Kung and two other Chinese KMT officials visited Germany and were received by Adolf Hitler in June 13.

The Anglo-Welsh writers of the 1930s had to look to London for publication and the possibility of literary success ; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially Wales, published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960.

Extravagant offers lured Dietrich away from Paramount to make The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ) for independent producer David O. Selznick ( she received $ 200, 000 ) and to England for Alexander Korda's production, Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ) ( at a salary of $ 450, 000 ).

Nonetheless, in February in 1937, Schmeling received the bad news that the champion had indeed signed to defend his championship against Louis.

Bax received a knighthood in 1937 ( Knight Bachelor ), but he was not entirely prepared to enjoy this honour.

He graduated in July 1937 and received a license to practice as an electrical engineer.

He received his BS in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1937.

His film career began in 1937 ; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox ( 1982 ) and The Straight Story ( 1999 ), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

* Légion d ' honneur, Officer's Cross ( France 1937 )

In 1937 he received a British Civil list pension and in 1938 he was created a chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur by the French government.

* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

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