However, in what became known as " the switch in time that saved nine ", shortly after the " court packing " plan was proposed, Justice Owen Roberts joined the 1937 5-4 majority opinion in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.

The switch in time that saved nine together with the retirement of Van Devanter in June 1937 and his replacement by Hugo Black ended the Four Horsemen's domination of the Court.

In 1937, the Court ( in what was called the " switch in time that saved nine ") had loosened its rules for deciding whether Congress could regulate certain commercial activities.

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Siebert was named an all-star three times after the switch and won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player in 1937 as a member of the Canadiens.

The " switch " came in the case West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, when the Court announced its opinion in March 1937.

The " switch ", together with the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter at the end of the 1937 spring term, is often viewed as having contributed to the demise of Roosevelt's court reform bill by undermining the necessity of its passage.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

In 1937 Wollheim founded the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, whose first mailing ( July 1937 ) included this statement from Wollheim: " There are many fans desiring to put out a voice who dare not, for fear of being obliged to keep it up, and for the worry and time taken by subscriptions and advertising.

In 1937, he received the Légion d ' honneur, and his pride at the honor is reflected in his self-portrait of the time, in which one can see his Legion pin on his lapel.

Since Miyagi's time, many composers such as Tadao Sawai ( 1937 – 1997 ) have written and performed works that continue to advance the instrument.

In 1937, Schreyer had advised Zuse to use vacuum tubes as switching elements ; Zuse at this time considered it a crazy idea (" Schnapsidee " in his own words ).

His Soviet controller at the time, Theodore Maly, reported in April 1937 to the NKVD that he had personally briefed Philby on the need " to discover the system of guarding Franco and his entourage.

During Kesselring's time as CS, 1936 – 1937, a power struggle developed between the two as Udet attempted to extend his own power within the Luftwaffe.

Although disputed by some, the ledger books of Takeda clearly show that Ueshiba spent a great deal of time training in Daitō-ryū between 1915 and 1937.

During this time the Giants won three pennants, defeating the Senators in the 1933 World Series and losing to the Yankees in 1936 and 1937.

Kekkonen successfully stood for parliament a second time in 1936 whereupon he became Justice Minister, serving from 1936 to 1937.

Murrow was glad to " leave the hothouse atmosphere of the New York office behind " when he was dispatched to London as CBS's European Director in 1937, a time when the growing Hitler menace underscored the need for a robust European Bureau.

The famed zeppelin Hindenburg that was destroyed by fire in 1937 was named in his honor, as was the Hindenburgdamm, a causeway joining the island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein that was built during his time in office.

The feature " Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue " comprised two tunes that had been in the band's book since 1937 but largely forgotten until Ellington, who had abruptly ended the band's scheduled set because of the late arrival of four key players, called the two tunes as the time was approaching midnight.

However, Messings time in Germany was cut short in 1937 when Hitler put out a 200, 000-mark reward to anyone who could kill the performer.

Italian Professor of neuropsychiatry Ugo Cerletti, who had been using electric shocks to produce seizures in animal experiments, and his colleague Lucio Bini developed the idea of using electricity as a substitute for metrazol in convulsive therapy and, in 1937, experimented for the first time on a person.

In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born.

Later in 1937 she dropped out of the top ten for the first time.

" However, from time to time his inspiration returned, as it did on a trip to Jamaica in 1937.

The Neutrality Act of 1937, passed in May, included the provisions of the earlier acts, this time without expiration date, and extended them to cover civil wars as well.

* 1937: Orson Welles ' famous production at the Mercury Theatre drew fervoured comment as the director dressed his protagonists in uniforms reminiscent of those common at the time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, as well as drawing a specific analogy between Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

Although he had been trying to write about his wartime experiences for some time, it was not until 1937 that Jones published his first literary effort.

In 1937, Max Theiler managed to grow the yellow fever virus in chicken eggs and produced a vaccine from an attenuated virus strain ; this vaccine saved millions of lives and is still being used today.

The visibly aging man who was also reversing and redefining his statements and teachings to accommodate himself and his work to the changed circumstances of post WW2 times was not the still youthful at 60 Father Divine who had saved him back in 1937 and bestowed on him the ' holy name ' of ' Jesus Emmanuel '.

In Canada, the official destruction of Edward VIII stamp dies and proofs happened on 25 and 27 January 1937 ; some essays were kept in the archives and the two plaster casts were saved by coin engraver Emmanuel Hahn and a postal officer.

Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).

His father was elected mayor of Gretz in 1919, when Papon was nine years old, and held that office until 1937.

Between 1937 and 1957 he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles.

From September 1936 to September 1937, Le Mesurier was employed by the Croydon Repertory Theatre, appearing in some nine of their productions, including Peace In Our Time in September 1936, Dusty Ermine and The Apple Cart in October 1936, Bees on the Boat Deck, Ah, Wilderness!

A number of premium services were offered, culminating in 1937 with the launch of the Coronation Scot, which featured streamlined locomotives hauling a nine coach train of specially constructed stock between London Euston and Glasgow Central in six and a half hours.

It opened in 1937 and added its second nine in 1970 ; the back tees are at, with a course rating of 72. 4 and a slope rating of 135.

In September 1937, nine hakhams, two of whom were Ashkenazi, were arrested in Tskhinvali ( Staliniri at the time ), and sent to prison without trial and murdered.

Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the " Magick Lantern Cycle ", and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history.

Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London ; it was not published in the United States.

They are usually modeled on Kraft Dinner which was introduced in 1937 with the slogan " make a meal for four in nine minutes.

However, just nine years later, the 1937 standardized seal once again featured a widened gap of Golden Gate proportions, although it did keep Rowe's snow-capped Sierra Nevada that had replaced the barren foothills of previous editions of the seal.

In 1937, she married her third husband, accompanist and arranger Robert Dale Butts ; they divorced nine years later.

Among the many famous ships made by the companies were the world's first steel ship, the Ma Roberts, built in 1858 for Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition, CSS Alabama that was built in 1862 for the Confederate States of America, HMS Caroline ( 1914 ) that holds the record fastest build time of any significant warship ( nine months from her keel being laid till her launch ), the first all-welded ship, the Fullagar built in 1920, Cunard's second Mauretania of 1939, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ( 1937 ) and the largest vessel to have been built for the Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal ( 1950 ).

* Page of Honour ( one of nine ) to King George VI at his Coronation ( 12 May 1937 )

Beginning in 1937, the Grays won nine consecutive Negro National League championships.

With the near-collapse of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Josh Gibson returned to the Grays in 1937, combining with slugger Buck Leonard to power the Grays to nine consecutive ( and a total of ten ) Negro National League Championships and three Negro League World Series titles.

Shemp costarred in the first seven shorts, released during 1936 and 1937 ; nine were produced all together, with the last two done after Shemp left Vitaphone to move to greener pastures on the West Coast.

A new definitive set depicting Greek landscapes including the Meteora monasteries and Aspropotamos River, intended to replace the 1937 " Historical issue ", was released in two batches of nine.

Dr. Prange was a Professor of History at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years ( 1942 – 1951 ) of military service overseas, and in the postwar era of military occupation of Japan, when he was the Chief Historian in General Douglas MacArthur's staff.

The Games were successfully organised for the next nine terms, but in September 1937, Japan invaded China after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and started the Second Sino-Japanese War ( which later became part of the World War II ), thus the originally planned Games of 1938 in Osaka was cancelled and the Far Eastern Games were discontinued thereafter.

Reagan and Hopper appeared in nine films together between 1937 and 1942.

By the end of 1937 People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov, in his order # 00362 had change the departments number from nine to twelve.