1937 Annual History Facts Aviation: In July, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart’s attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. Music: Strange Fruit, one of the first banned protest songs, was written as a poem by Abel Meeropol. Influential Songs include: One […]
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1937 Books & Bestsellers 1937 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 2. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts 3. The Citadel by A.J. Cronin 4. And So-Victoria by Vaughan Wilkins 5. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds 6. The Years by Virginia Woolf 7. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham 8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 9. The Rains Came by Louis
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1936 Annual History Facts Politics: The UK’s Edward VIII abdicated to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Pop Standards include Pennies From Heaven, The Way You Look Tonight, Summertime, and I’ve Got You Under My Skin The Big Movies included Modern Times, San Francisco, and Three Smart Girls Price of 100 yards of yarn in
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1936 Books & Bestsellers 1936 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 2. The Last Puritan by George Santayana 3. Sparkenbroke by Charles Morgan 4. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds 5. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 6. White Banners by Lloyd C. Douglas 7. The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 8. The Thinking Reed by Rebecca
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1935 Annual History Facts Politics: When Social Security set the retirement age at 65 in 1935, the average American only lived 61.7 years The biggest Songs include: Cheek to Cheek by Fred Astaire, Isle of Capri by Ray Noble, and Red Sails in the Sunset by Guy Lombardo The Big Movies included Mutiny on the
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1935 Books & Bestsellers 1935 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas 2. Vein of Iron by Ellen Glasgow 3. Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe 4. Time Out of Mind by Rachel Field 5. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton 6. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel 7. Heaven’s My Destination by Thornton Wilder 8. Lost Horizon by
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1934 Annual History Facts Politics: The United States Gold Reserve Act of 1934 outlawed most private possession of gold, forcing US citizens to sell it to the Treasury. Americans could not freely own and trade gold again until 1975. Influential Songs include: I Get a Kick Out of You by Ethel Merman (and others) and
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1934 Books & Bestsellers 1934 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen 2. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 3. So Red the Rose by Stark Young 4. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton 5. Within This Present by Margaret Ayer Barnes 6. Work of Art by Sinclair Lewis 7. Private Worlds by Phyllis Bottome 8. Mary Peters by Mary Ellen Chase 9. Oil
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1933 Annual History Facts Politics: Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution changes the date a new President, Vice President, and Congress take office, thus shortening the time between Election Day and the beginning of Presidential, Vice Presidential, and Congressional terms. The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and returned the regulation of alcohol to the
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1933 Books & Bestsellers 1933 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen 2. As the Earth Turns by Gladys Hasty Carroll 3. Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis 4. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas 5. One More River by John Galsworthy 6. Forgive Us Our Trespasses by Lloyd C. Douglas 7. The Master of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche 8. Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter
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