1937
William H. Hastie is confirmed Judge of the Federal District Court in the Virgin Islands, thereby becoming the first black to serve as a federal judge in the history of the United States.
1937
A new law in Pennsylvania denies many state services to unions discriminating against blacks.
1937
Richard Wright becomes editor of Challenge Magazine, changes the title to New Challenge, and urges blacks to write with greater "social realism."
1937
Between 60 to 80 of the 3,200 Americans who fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War are black. Oliver Law, a black from Chicago, commands the Lincoln Battalion.
1937
Otto Rahn's second book Luzifers Hofgesind. Eine Reise zu Europas guten Geisten (Lucifer's Court in Europe) is published in Leipzig.
1937
After four months service with the SS-Death's Head Division Oberbayern at Dachau, Otto Rahn is given leave to devote himself fully to writing until his resignation from the SS in February 1939. (Roots)
1937
John D. Rockefeller appoints William S. Farish president and CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey.
1937
Nikolai Bukharin is arrested by the Soviet secret police..
1937
Joseph Kennedy, Sr., is named U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His sons, Joe Jr. and John, both work as international reporters for their father.
1937
Leon Trotsky publishes The Revolution Betrayed, an expose of Joseph Stalin and his regime.
1937 January
Hitler formally abrogates the Treaty of Versailles.
1937 January 1
Ralph Wigram, one of Churchill's closest allies in the British government commits suicide on New Year's Eve. Churchill spent January at Chartwell, working on volume IV of Marlborough, and painting.
1937 January 1
The Polish law prohibiting Jewish ritual slaughter (Shechita)
goes into effect.
1937 January 1
All Jewish-owned employment agencies in Germany are ordered closed.
1937 January 6
The Zionist Organization in Poland votes to support the Polish Socialist parties in all future elections. (Edelheit)
1937 January 7
Heiress to the Dutch (Netherlands, Holland) throne, Princess Juliana,
marries Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
1937 January 10
The Polish government dissolves the Warsaw Jewish
kehilla.
1937 January 12
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem testifies before the
Peel Commission in Palestine.
1937 January 13
The U.S. State Department in Washington warns citizens against
serving in Spain.
1937 January 15
The Schuschnigg government proclaims amnesty for
Austrian Nazis.
1937 January 16
The Gestapo orders all Jewish youth organization in
Germany dissolved.
1937 January 17
Germany prohibits foreign warships from free passage
through the Kiel Canal.
1937 January 19
Opening of the trials against "Trotskyists" in Moscow.
Karl Radek and 16 others are condemned to death in the first trials.
1937 January 20
President Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second
term.
1937 January 22
German citizens are asked not to patronize Jewish
doctors.
