Among his legislation is the Pittman – Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 which set up a formula for federal sharing of ammunition tax revenue for establishing state wildlife areas.

Several pieces of legislation bore his name, including the Pittman Act of 1918 and the Pittman – Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937.

* 1937 – Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and musician

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

* 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Igor Volk, Soviet astronaut

* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.

* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

* 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress

* 1845 – André Bessette, Canadian pastor and saint ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.

* 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

* 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player

* 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, composer, and producer ( The Band )

* 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution " Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH " to the constitutive congress of KPH ( Croatian Communist Party ) in woods near Samobor.

* 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Al D ' Amato, American politician

* 1937 – Steven Berkoff, English actor

* 1937 – Roland Burris, American politician

* 1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer

* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica ( or Gernika in Basque ), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

The Poynting-Robertson effect ( Robertson, 1937 ; ;

* 1869 – David Robertson, Scottish golfer ( d. 1937 )

* Several film versions of " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " have been made, including one in 1937 with Preston Foster and another in 1952 with Dale Robertson.

With Red Dutton running the team for the 1937 – 38 season, the Americans signed veterans Ching Johnson and Hap Day and acquired goalie Earl Robertson.

In 1937 Robertson described the effect in terms of general relativity.

" Robertson, Sir Johnston Forbes ( 1853 – 1937 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

It has been filmed at least five times: one in 1937 with Preston Foster and another in 1957 with Dale Robertson.

* Dr. Samuel Napier Robertson served as professor 1869 – 1901 and took over as principal of PWC following Anderson's move into the provincial civil service, serving until 1937.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1937.

* Sidney Robertson Cowell's recordings of folk songs, conducted during the summer of 1937, sponsored by the RA's Special Skills Division, and now stored at the University of Wisconsin.

He also led the WANFL's goalkicking, for the first time since 1937, which marked the sixth time he had filled this role, a record not equalled until 1954, by Bernie Naylor, and not broken until 1971, by Austin Robertson, Jr., who led the league's goalkicking a total of eight times.

He began his interest in politics by assisting in Percy Spender's successful campaign for Askin's local seat of Warringah as an Independent candidate at the 1937 Federal election.

The US economic contraction in 1937, the last gasp of the Great Depression, is blamed on tightening of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve resulting in a higher cost of capital and weaker securities markets, a reduced net government contribution to income, the undistributed profits tax, and higher labor costs.

Federal Writers ' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts ( 1937 ).

After graduating in 1937 he worked for the Federal Housing Administration and in 1939 he was a partner with Hunter Moss at a mortgage banking firm called the Moss-Rouse Company, which would eventually become the Rouse Company.

In the 1930s, some U. S. states adopted price controls, and Federal Milk Marketing Orders started under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and continue in the 2000s.

Poster for a 1937 Federal Theater Project production of The Emperor Jones.

The law is codified in Article 116 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, which provides access to German citizenship for anyone " who has been admitted to the territory of the German Reich within the boundaries of December 31, 1937 as a refugee or expellee of German ethnic origin or as the spouse or descendant of such person ".

Federal legislation in 1937 also authorized a second Powerhouse, although the need was not then immediate.

Landis served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission ( 1933 – 1934 ), as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission ( 1934 – 1937 ), and as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ( 1935 – 1937 ).

In the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a supporter of collective bargaining rights for employees in the private sector, indicated his opposition to such agreements for government or public employee unions in a 1937 letter to the National Federation of Federal Employees:

That same year, 1937, after detaching themselves from the Federal Theatre Project, Houseman and Welles did The Cradle Will Rock as a full, independent production on Broadway.

** Federal Court of India, existed from 1937 to 1950

A notorious December 1937 radio appearance by Mae West, condemned as " vulgar and indecent " by the Federal Communications Commission, featured an Adam and Eve sketch in which Eve ( played by West ) asks the Snake in the Garden of Eden to fetch her some forbidden fruit: " Now, get me a big one -- I feel like doin ' a Big Apple!

In 1937 and 1938, Cahill was a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Czaja voted-along with several conservative politicians-against the recognition of the Oder-Neisse line as the Polish-German definitive border in 1990, and claimed the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany with the territory of the former German Democratic Republic was not a complete reunification according to the German constitution, as it did not include the eastern provinces of Nazi Germany as they existed on December 31, 1937.

In 1937, the Federal Council of Churches ( now known as the National Council of Churches ) recommended that the entire part of the Christian calendar between Pentecost and Advent be named Kingdomtide ; however, two years later the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted the term only for the second half of this time period.

Once Vargas was deposed, the military summoned his legal deputy, José Linhares, the President of the Supreme Federal Court ( Brazil's chief justice ), to assume the Presidency ( the office of Vice-President had been abolished, and no legislature had been elected under the 1937 Constitution, so that the President of the Supreme Court was the firt person in the line of succession ).

Anslinger received, as head of The Federal Bureau of Narcotics ( FBN ) ( from his point of view ), an alarming increase of reports about smoking of marijuana in 1936 that continued to spread at an accelerated pace in 1937.

Poster for Festival of American Dance, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project, WPA, 1937.

* Martin's role in the Constitution struggle may be traced in Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 ( 4 vols., 1911 – 1937 ; rev.

This same year, he was admitted to the Faculty of Law at the University of Rio de Janeiro-nowadays the National School of Law of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ( UFRJ )-which until 1937 was located at a mansion in downtown Rio ( Casarão do Catete ).

A poster from the Federal Theatre Project production of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, 1937

Some examples of this are the addition and subsequent destruction of Rivera's Man at the Crossroads in the RCA Building ( 1933 – 34 ), the Italian invasion of Ethiopia ( 1935 ), labor strikes against Little Steel ( 1937 ) and the Dies Committee ’ s assault on the Federal Theatre Project ( 1938 ) ( Weales 2000 ).