1924: Davis defeats Coolidge

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I do solemly swear I'll faithully update this timeline today

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May 10, 1934: Although basically successfull during his first year in office, President Hoover suffered from him well-known problems with working inside Washington specific political world. On that date he formally asked veteran Progressive Harold L. Ickes of Chicago to serve as his gatekeeper or, in other words, "Chief of Staff". Ickes, who despite a lot of speculations, did not join Hoover cabinet back in 1933, but acted as a trusted, albeit informal advisor, helping in crafting many "Recovery and Security" initiatives.

May 29, 1934: The United States and Cuba sign a treaty releasing Cuba from the Platt Amendment, effectively releasing the island country from a U.S. protectorate status.

June 1, 1934: In his radio message, President Hoover announced he's intending to ask Congress to consider passing a congressional amendment which would enable President to nominate a new Vice President, in a case of vacancy in the office, who would be a subject of Senate confirmation. We cannot allow a situation when President, who is mortal like everyone else, don't have a clear, well-known, prepeared replacement. Hoover had no idea how propethic his words will turn in future.

June 12, 1934: Congress passed both Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act, allowing the President to cut tariffs by as much as 50 percent, and Securities Exchange Act, creating the Securities Exchange Commission.

June 13, 1934: President Hoover signs both acts into a law.

June 20, 1934: TIME Magazine runs an analysis of Hoover policies.

The President is acting like a model Progressive. His actions to fight the great depression are, as of now, successfull, leading to recovery, even if this is slow process and we are still experiencing serious problems. Yet, no one can deny the situation is much better than a year ago.

His accomplishments so far includes stopping bank system from collapsing, passing a conservation act, something Teddy Roosevelt would love to see in his lifetime, which reduced unemployment, helping homeowners and farmers by energetic acts and interventions, curbing a wild stock exchange. Still, he rejected many radical projects, such like George Norris's pet Tennessee River Energy project, or is not as friendly to the unions, as many his supporters would like to see.

Whatever we may think one is beyond discussion: Hoover gave people a hope and without hope recovery is impossible. Now the President indicate, while keeping active government role, he would focus on fighting the waste of resources, which are not use properly.

July 3, 1934: The eve of Independence Day turned into a nightmare for the American people. President Hoover was visiting Orlando, Florida, and participated in an open meeting with mayor and Florida Governor, David Scholtz. While he was giving a remarks, gunshot was heard and Hoover collapsed, bleeding. Attempts to save his live failed.

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Presidents:

29th: Warren G. Harding (R-OH), March 4, 1921 – August 5, 1923
30th: J. Calvin Coolidge (R-MA), August 5, 1923 – March 4, 1925
31st: John W. Davis (D-WV), March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1933
32nd: Herbert C. Hoover (P-CA), March 4, 1933 - July 3, 1934
33rd: Joseph C. Grew (P-MA), July 3, 1934 - present

Vice Presidents:

29th: J. Calvin Coolidge (R-MA), March 4, 1921 – August 5, 1923
Vacant, August 5, 1923 – March 4, 1925
30th: Charles W. Bryan (D-NE), March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929
31st: Nellie Ross Taylor (D-WY), March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933   
32nd: Albert E. Ottinger (P-NY), March 4, 1933 - March 2, 1934
Vacant, March 2, 1934 - present

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The Presidency of Joseph C. Grew

Joseph Clark Grew (P-MA), 33rd President of the United States
July 3, 1934 - ...

July 3, 1934: Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew was appearing before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when the news about President Hoover death reached D.C. Within half of an hour he was sworn-in the hearing room by called ad hoc federal judge.

A 54-year old model and career diplomat, Massachusetts intellectual and blueblood, educated at Gorton and Harvard, and avid traveler who wrote Theodore Roosevelt favourite book, Grew served in Republican, Democratic and Progressive administrations, certainly was a public servant, but not a politician. He only recently formally registered as a Progressive.

A man without political base and experience became suddenly President in a mids of the worst national crisis.

July 4, 1934: Normally President would address the Nation of joyful occasion of Country birthday, but President Grew first Radio speech centred on his sudden accession and equally stunning death of the predecessor. The first person ever to succeed the highest office of the land without being a Vice President, fully acknowledged the situation.

My fellow Americans, I wish I could give you a hope in this tragic moment, but I can't. I have no experience in this work, no preparations and I’m just as shocked as you are. Knowing my limits, I shall serve as a caretaker, doing whatever I can to maintain a course set by our geniuely Progressive leader, before we will find together a man, who can carry on this great work.

In the speech, Grew pledged to keep all Hoover programs and people in the government, as well as pushing vice presidential replacement amendment. He did not ruled an option to appoint "the man" to Secretary of State and them resign, if process take too long.

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July 22, 1934: John Dillinger, dubbed as a "Public Enemy Number One" was captured by FBI agents outside theatre in Chicago. He was soon charged with multiple murder and robbery, facing death penalty.

July 24, 1934: Progressive Congressional leadership together with delegates from Progressive National Committee meet with President Grew to discuss "a replacement". As both sides agreed that it will took a time to craft and pass Vice President Replacement Amendment, Progressive lawmakers and delegates from state parties will held a talk to determine a person, whom Grew would appoint to the Secretary of State, thus putting first in line, and then resign, returning to his own old post.

August 2, 1934: Senators Royal Coopeland (D-NY) and Robert M. La Follette Jr. (P-WI) introduced a project of the constitutional amendment.

October 10, 1934: At the dramating meeting of state and national party leaders with Progressive congresspersons, 39-year old Senator La Follette, a scion of the Wisconsin progressive dynasty, has been chosen as a replacement. La Follette represents a longtime progressive forces in contrast to his key opponent in the "special convention", Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey, formerly a Liberal Democrat and one of many of them, who joined Progressives and builds their strength in Northeast.

October 14, 1934: President Grew officially nominated Senator La Follette for Secretary of State, clearly stating his intentions.

November 6, 1934: Due to visible economic improvement and a sorrow following Hoover's death, Progressives enlarged their congressional majority in a midterm elections.

December 9, 1934: Despite attempts to filibuster "a unconstitutional deal" by Southern Democrats, La Follette is confirmed as Secretary of State.

December 11, 1934: President Grew officially resigns, allowing La Follette to take the office of President.

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Hmm...I don't think President Grew although not particulary interested in Politics...I would think he would atleast serve out til the end of Hoover's term. I imagine, him mainly focusing on foriegn policy, while giving the Progressive controlled Congress a free reign when it came to Domestic Policy. Three years as POTUS really isn't that long lol

Yes, but I just wanted to make a quick transition precedent in 1930s.

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The Presidency of Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

Robert Marion La Follette, Jr., 34th President of the United States
December 11, 1934 - ...

December 11, 1934: Secretary of State La Follette took the oath of office as the next President of the United States at special joint session of Congress. Inaugurated at age of 39, he become the youngest President in history, thus surpassing a record set by Theodore Roosevelt.

In his speech, La Follette thanked his predecessor for his understatement of situation and setting a good precedent for future. He also pledged to continue work of Herbert Hoover.

December 13, 1934: John Dillinger received three straight death sentences from court in Chicago. Even is he was one of the most notorious criminal of the troubled 1930s era, the sentence was somewhat overshadowed with coming to the next President.

December 19, 1934: Former President Grew is confirmed again to be Secretary of State.

January 4, 1934: In his first State of the Union Address, President La Follette promised a second phase of Recovery and Stabilization agenda. This was more "radical" than Hoover's. Project includes for example expanding social security programs and made them more permanent, as well as public housing and more farm aid. Also, La Follette indicated much more friendly stance toward Union problems than Hoover.

March 4, 1935: The new, 74th, Congress convenes with enlarged Progressive majority.

House of Representatives:

Progressive Party: 306
Democratic Party: 191
Republican Party: 9

Speaker of the House: Franck R. Havenner (P-CA)
Majority Leader: George J. Schneider (P-WI)
Majority Whip: Fiorello H. LaGuardia (P-NY)
Minority Leader: William B. Bankhead (D-AL)
Minority Whip: Edward T. Taylor (D-CO)

Senate:

Progressive Party: 62
Democratic Party: 32
Republican Party: 2

President pro tempore: William E. Borah (P-ID)
Majority Leader: Burton K. Wheeler (P-MN)
Majority Whip: Robert F. Wagner (P-NY)
Minority Leader: Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-AR)
Minority Whip: Thomas P. Gore (D-OK)

March 20, 1935: Congress passes Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. The bill authorizes nearly $5 billion for new programs.

April 1, 1935: John Dillinger was put to death in Cook County jail electric chair. His death became one of the most publicized events of the decade.

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Wow, I totally forgot about that old story, and rediscovered it's accidentally.

Maybe I'll continue as a cure for writer's bloc

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OK, It's back.


April 4, 1935: After a long and controversial negotiations, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Estonia signed a "Permanent Alliance", during a ceremony in the Belweder Palace in Warsaw. Although France was very welcoming and encouraging to the formation of, so-called, "Little Entente" among their Eastern allies, some neighbours were worried. Lithuania, Latvia and the USSR denounced the pact as a "Polish Imperialism". The United Kingdom traditionally thought it would ruin "a balance of power" in the Continent. German society was focused on recovery, but President Marx was privately very concerned. There was no interest in the United States, focused on the economy as well, being led by the staunchly isolationist President.

April 8, 1935: Congress passes the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. The bill authorizes nearly $5 billion to establish federal programs in line with La Follette much more far reaching, than his predecessor, goals.

Aprill 13, 1935: President Marx appointed former Minister President of Prussia Otto Braun (SDP) as a Chancellor of the new SDP-Centrum grand coalition. While Centrum had more cabinet seats than the Social Democrats, Braun has been chosen due to his influence in the largest country, Prussia, "a key to the Reich".

April 27, 1935: Congress establishes the Soil Conservation Service within the Department of Agriculture to promote better use of farmlands and to prevent a recurrence of the "Dust Bowl" of the previous spring.

May 6, 1935: With funds from the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, President La Follette  issues an executive order establishing the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority, a pet project of Senator Norris, that has been blocked previously by President Hoover.

May 11, 1935: Rural Electrification Administration established.

May 12, 1935: Marshal Józef Piłsudski died in a Warsaw Belweder Palace just a month after achieving his greatest success in foreign policy: establishing of Polish-dominated Central European, for now Defense, alliance, he viewed as an important step toward his conception of a "Intermarum" Federation.

May 15, 1935: A second "May Coup" in Poland. President Ignacy Mościcki, widely viewed as a Piłsudski's puppet since the Marshal became a de facto dictator in 1926, without his own base and political skills, and who was unexpectedly left in charge with a new constitution, drafted with a thought of Piłdudski formally becoming President, has been ousted by a rapid action of the part of military that supported General Kazimierz Sosnkowski. Sosnkowski was a longtime Piłsudski key may and although they briefly broke up during the first May Coup, thus leading to a distrusts among many Sanacja figures, he still retained a position and "Commandant" confidence, now being able to use it to take a power.

May 22, 1935: Sejm formally elects General Sosnowski as the 4th President of the Republic of Poland. Mościcki returns quietly to the chemistry professorship at the University of Lvov.

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Right... first people are bitching about lack of "serious" TLs, and when I resume one, I'm still a spacegot.

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Yeah, I'll try to revive this one more time...

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The worst problem is format I decided to go with. Wiriting date-by-date stuff if really difficult

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Love this timeline. I hope it can be continued in any format!

Thanks. Hopefully, I'll be able to make a new entry tomorrow.

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June 29, 1935: Staff talks between Great Britain and Germany began.

July 4, 1935: On the day of national holiday the tragedy struck one of the most powerful families in Massachusetts. Democratic Governor Joseph P. Kennedy (elected in 1931) and his two sons, Joseph Jr. and John, are killed when private aircraft crashed onto a sea near Martha's Vineyard. The remains are never found and the three are legally declared dead in September.

July 5, 1935: Unionized workers hopes about La Follette administration are fulfilled, when the Presidents signs the National Labor Relations Act into a law. The act created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which ensures the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively.

July 10, 1935: General Kurt von Schleicher, now Reichswehr Chief of Staff, arrives to London to discuss potential British-German military cooperation. France and Poland are very concerned.

August 14, 1935 The Progressives scored their most far-reaching goal, when President La Follette signed the Social Security Act (that, among other things, guaranteed pensions to Americans over the age of 65, establishes a system of unemployment insurance, and assists states in aiding dependent) into a law.

August 30, 1935: The Revenue Act is passed. Progressive congressional leaders and President La Follette, happy with their recent political victories, are already thinking about some more projects.

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Great update! I think it will be very interesting to see who will take the Kennedy mantle (probaly Robert), and what will happen to the declining Republicans.

Thanks for noticing I'm not planning Kennedy Clan dissapearance. It just will be muuch diffrent

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September 1, 1935: It seems, New York-based TIME magazine was predicting, that despite all hopes following the Great War, Europe is once again starting to split on two camps, bitterly opposing each other. We know how it was before 1914 and how it ended (...) France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Estonia are firmly forming, what is called, a "New Entente", while British are visibly favoring allowing Germany to rebuild their military, in order to "restore balance of power on continent. With Italy and the Soviet Union still an enigma, all could happen"

September 8, 1935: Senator Huey P. Long, a Democrat of Louisiana who has been supporting a lot of Progressive meassures (although, as he said half-jockingly, Hoover and La Follette weren't "progressive" enough for his taste) and thus is at frequent odds with his own party, survived an assassination attempt in state capital Baton Rogue. While Long is unharmed, a bystander was killed.

September 9, 1935: In response to failed Long assassination attempt, Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama committed one of the most costly gaffes in recent U.S. political history. This man (the failed assassin) ought to be hung, but only because he missed and that monster is still alive. Journalist are predicting it's only a matter of time before Long will break up with the party, which can have disastrous consequences for the Democrats in a heart of the Solid South.

November 9, 1935: AFL is formed with John Lewis as it's President.

December 13, 1935: Before Christmas recess, House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment (already approved by the Senate) that would allow the President to nominate with Senate approval the new Vice President, shall the office fell vacant during a term.

January 24, 1936: Congress passed Adjusted Compensation Act, which was quickly signed by President La Follette into a law. Despite some serious concerns about it's effect on the still recovering budget, the President praised the act as "giving a long-deserved justice to our veterans".

May 9, 1936: Italy completes it's conquest of Abyssinia.

June 13, 1936: The Republican National Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, nominated former Senator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin for President and media owner Frank Gannett of New York for Vice President.

July 17, 1936: Spanish Army in Morocco mutiny against Republican Government in Madrid started Spanish Civil War.

July 20, 1936: The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, that allows filling the Vice Presidency in case of vacancy, is ratified by enough number of states to became a law. With general election near, President La Follette decided not to use it now.

July 27, 1936: After four deadlocked ballots, the Democratic National Convention, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nominated, once again, House Minority Leader John N. Garner for President, and Senator James A. Reed of Missouri for Vice President. Garner's main opponent turned out to be Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, whose chances were diminished by his outspoken internationalist positions.

August 3, 1936: Progressive National Convention, held in New York City, nominated President La Follette without an opposition. His choice for Vice President, a Democratic-turned-Progressive Governor Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island, is likewise nominated easily.

August-October 1936: Although 80% of the newspapers endorsed either Garner or Blaine and La Follette's progressive agenda is under a severe attack by conservatives, few doubted a solid Progressive victory. The nation already had it worst behind, signs of an advanced recovery were visible and optimism about the near future dominated popular feelings.

October 17, 1936: Senator Huey P. Long endorsed President La Follette for reelection.

October 23, 1936: In a campaign stop in Detroit, President La Follette made one of his most famous promises. The security for all American people will never be complete if we won't create a nationwide health service.

November 3, 1936: President Robert M. La Follette, Jr. is comfortably reelected over House Minority Leader John N. Garner in a historic elections that removed the Republican Party from an electoral map. Due to Long's influence, Louisiana, even while barely, voted for the Progressive ticket, making a first break within the Solid South.

Beside gains in Louisiana, Progressives also elected their first statewide officeholder in remaining former Confederacy. A 36-year old former Democratic state legislator Claude Denson Pepper won a special election for the Senate.

President Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin/Governor Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island (Progressive): 439 electoral votes, 57% of the popular vote
House Minority Leader John N. Garner of Texas/Senator James A. Reed of Missouri (Democratic): 92 electoral votes, 31% of the popular vote
Senator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin/Frank E. Gannett of New York (Republican): 10% of the popular vote
Others: 2% of the popular vote

(Credit for map shades goes to Dallasfan65 )

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January 3, 1937: The 75th Congress convenes, with Progressives being just short to the supermajority in the Senate, while enjoying it in the House.

Senate:

Progressives: 63
Democrats: 29
Republicans: 4

House of Representatives:

Progressive: 331
Democratic: 113
Republicans: 11

Leadership:

Senate:

President of the Senate: Theodore F. Green (P-RI), as Vice President-elect
President pro tempore: William E. Borah (P-ID)
Majority Leader: Burton K. Wheeler (P-MT)
Majority Whip: George W. Norris (P-NE)
Minority Leader: Alben W. Barkley (D-KY)
Minority Whip: Carl T. Hayden (D-AZ)
Republican Leader: None

House of Representatives:

Speaker of the House: William F. Lemke (P-ND)
Majority Leader: Knud Wefald (P-MN)
Majority Whip: Jennings Randolph (P-WV)
Minority Leader: William B. Bankhead (D-AL)
Minority Whip: Samuel T. Rayburn (D-TX)
Republican Leader: Charles W. Tobey (R-NH)

January 5, 1937: Senator Long formally defects from the Democratic Party, followed by many of his supporters in Louisiana. Ostentatibly independent, yet caucused with Progressives, he's a reason to concern for President La Follette, who sees him as a possible radical inside rival in next months.

January 20, 1937: For the first time in January, as required by the 20th Amendment, ratified back in 1933, the President and Vice President are inaugurated in January. Onlookers noted a deep satisfaction with which President La Follette was reciting an oath that day, and, to be honest, he had a lot of reasons to feel that way. He couldn't see a dark clouds coming yet...

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Presidents:

29th: Warren G. Harding (R-OH), March 4, 1921 – August 5, 1923
30th: J. Calvin Coolidge (R-MA), August 5, 1923 – March 4, 1925
31st: John W. Davis (D-WV), March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1933
32nd: Herbert C. Hoover (P-CA), March 4, 1933 - July 3, 1934
33rd: Joseph C. Grew (P-MA), July 3, 1934 - December 11, 1934
34th: Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (P-WI), December 11, 1934 - present

Vice Presidents:

29th: J. Calvin Coolidge (R-MA), March 4, 1921 – August 5, 1923
Vacant, August 5, 1923 – March 4, 1925
30th: Charles W. Bryan (D-NE), March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929
31st: Nellie Ross Taylor (D-WY), March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933  
32nd: Albert E. Ottinger (P-NY), March 4, 1933 - March 2, 1934
Vacant, March 2, 1934 - January 20, 1937
33rd: Theodore F. Green (P-RI), January 20, 1937 - present

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Second term of Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

January 22, 1937: Two days after President La Follette began his second, and the first full, term, TIME magazine wrote: It's incredible how, in just little more than a decade, the Progressives became a major party, completely burying the Republicans. It's also interesting to look on it's historical makeup.

After all, the party was primarily organized by the progressive, mostly Western, Republicans who were opposing dominance of the conservative wing, represented by Coolidge and his infamous cabinet purge. Unlike in 1912, when there was a deadly rift between Teddy Roosevelt's and William Borah's Progressives, the two forces united. Soon they were joined by such elements like western Progressive Democrats (Burton Wheeler), much more moderate pro-reform Republicans, who were rejected by Coolidge and his wing (Herbert Hoover). The 1928 saw joining of the East Coast-based liberal Democrats, under Al Smith. While Smith lost an election badly, he can be credited with bringing urban, blue-collar, and Catholic voters to the new party. Now we can see Populist of Huey Long's mode coming under the tent

At the same time, the once primarily Southern Democratic party is expanding their gains among former conservative Republican. The big realignment, we shall say.

January 28, 1937: La Follette's second cabinet is completed, with a lot of it's officers remaining from the previous term administration.

Vice President: Theodore F. Green (P-RI)
Secretary of State: James P. Grew (P-MA)
Secretary of the Treasury: Alfred M. Landon (P-KS)
Secretary of War: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (P-NY)
Attorney General: William O. Douglas (P-WA)
Postmaster General: Philip F. La Follette (P-WI)
Secretary of the Navy: Ralph Austin Bard (I-OH)
Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (P-IL)
Secretary of Agriculture: Henry A. Wallace (P-IA)
Secretary of Commerce: Frank Knox (P-IL)
Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (P-NY)

February 8, 1937: General Franco's forces are defeated in the Battle of Malaga by the Government forces. Franco's only foreign ally, Italy's Benito Mussolini, busy with occupying Abyssinia, is unable to effectively help the rebels.

February 10, 1937: President Marx hinted a possibility of enlarging Reichswehr due to "complicated international situation", stressing however the purely "defensive" nature of this idea.

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I see a President Pepper on the horizon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8RjPAD2Jk&feature=related

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February 12, 1937: We've ended the first phase of Recovery and Reform, President La Follette exclaimed in his weekly radio address. We overcame the menace of a great depression. Now it's a time for the second phase: to make our gains permanent, so we and our children prosperity and security will be guaranteed.

February 13, 1937: A day after his address, La Follette sent a three major proposals to the Congress. The first, Agriculture Reform Act, Secretary Wallace's brainchild, was the most radical project of agricultural reform. The second, National Transportation Act, was aimed at  futher reducing an unemployment rate as well as improving infrastructure in the Western United States, by building a series of a highways. Finally, recognizing the significance of the urban areas and it's problems, the third bill was establishing new cabinet department: Department of Urban Affairs.

February 16, 1937: Soviet and Japanese forces briefly clashed across the Soviet-Mongolian border.

February 19, 1937: Italian Viceroy of Abyssinia, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, is assassinated by two Eritrean nationalists. The guard returned a fire to the crowd of an onlookers.

February 21, 1937: Proposition to prohibit foreign nationals from fighting in the Spanish Civil War failed narrowly in the League of Nations Non-Intervention Committee.

February 23, 1937: With an approval of France and to annoyance of the British, Poland enlarges it's garrison in Free City of Danzig in a wake of President Wilhelm Marx's declaration about possible Reichswerh enlargement.

February 28, 1927: President La Follette have a very nervous meeting in his office with Senator Al Smith of New York. Smith, so far, was a loyal supporter of two Progressive Presidents agenda, but now felt something dear to his heart is missing. We achieved an historic victory, Bob, he told "Young Bob". We have a great majority in Congress. It's a time to finally give a justice to Negroes and the Natives. We can finally end with an discrimination, which is a true shame for the American spirit! President La Follette seems very reluctant, as he tends to ignore civil rights issues thorough his earlier career and Presidency to not "antagonize some elements we need in our agenda". Al, it's not that simple... Mr. President, it's now or never! When La Follette politely declined to give the issue a priority, furious Smith stormed out the Oval Office.

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Damn, I'm in a very good writing mood today

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March 13, 1937: With a determination of Senate Majority Leader Wheeler and House Speaker Lemke, all three major pieces of legislation are passed, and La Follette signed them into a law two days later. A happy President didn't know, it's going to be his last major achievement.

March 17, 1937: President La Follette is a committed isolationist, who believes the United States should keep itself out of any European affairs, TIME magazine wrote. However, on some scale, his foreign policy is quite active. We're talking, of course, about South America. As President Hoover started a new phase of relations with our Southern neighbours, so-called "Good Neighbour Policy", La Follette is enthusiastically continuing it.

March 19, 1937: The Encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI about communism is published.

March 23, 1937: Senator Al Smith, a Progressive of New York, took a floor to introduce his Civil Rights Act of 1937. My fellow Senators, a "Happy Warrior" began, We can't talk about American Dream, if we're denying the same basic rights, our Founding Fathers fought for and our ancestors come here for, full of hope, to the Negroes and Native Americans.

March 25, 1937: Former President John W. Davis, who has been enjoying his luxurious private law practice since his 1933 retirement, delivered a speech in his home state of West Virginia, denouncing La Follette's "disastrous economic policy and destroying the very principles of our constitution". Davis, who previously denied any invitations to become politically involved again, now is at the scene again.

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April 2, 1937: Intending to use the recent favorable legislative wave, President La Follette sent a National Health Service Act to "establish, as a part of the Social Security, a legislation to include publicly funded health care programs". During his remarks La Follette reminded a similar proposal made by Theodore Roosevelt during 1912 campaign.

April 3, 1937: Tell the President, I won't support his plan without him supporting the civil rights, Senator Smith told one of La Follette's aides.

April 4, 1937: Despite Smith's warning and his, potentially dangerous to the plan influence, Progressive leaders in Congress gladly accepted La Follette's proposals, as did handful more progressive Democrats.

April 10, 1937: German armed ship was denied entry to the Free City of Danzig port by Polish Navy. Polish side explained German action violated Treaty of Versailles terms, but Berlin Government rejected these claims. Atmosphere in Europe is rising again.

April 11, 1937: Former President Davis denounced La Follette's health service plan as unconstitutional and promised, if it's passed, to take the case to the Supreme Court.

April 13, 1937: American Medical Association condemned the plan as a "compulsory health insurance".

May 1, 1937: Neutrality Act is signed into a law. On the same date, general strike starts in France.

May 4, 1937: Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama started a filibuster against a draft of the Health Service Act, calling it a "shameless socialism"... The filibuster won one Progressive supporter... Al Smith. The New York Senator openly admitted, while he supports a principle of the national health service, he won't support it as long as administration will oppose his civil rights platform. President La Follette is in a deep hole now. If he agrees on Smith demands, he'll surely lose needed Democratic votes. If he continues to ignore it, the bill wouldn't reach the majority due to Smith stance. After just few days, the most ambitious goal was certainly doomed.

May 7, 1937: Hindenburg disaster outside Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing thirty-six.

May 7, 1937: Visibly disappointed Majority Leader Burton K. Wheeler announced, that Health Service Act is withdrawn. President La Follette's position, just month into his first full term, is permanently damaged. Progressive base is angry, because of abandoning their principle. Democrats saw the administration can be defeated and, perhaps for the worst, he lost control over Smith wing. To make the day complete, Senator long denounced "Young Bob" as a "spinless coward".

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May 27, 1937: Neville Chamberlain succeeds Stanley Baldwin at 10 Downing Street. In his first speech in the Commons as Prime Minister, Chamberlain declares that only keeping the balance of power in European continent can guarantee peace.

June 21, 1937: Leon Blum Government survives a motion of no-confidence.

June 25, 1937: Polish General Staff obtained a detailed plan of Reichswehr enlargement thanks to an efforts of it's agent in Berlin, Major Jerzy Sosnowski.

June 28, 1937: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) replaced Emergency Conservation Work program.

July 24, 1937: Alabama retains all charges against "Scottsboro Boys".

July 28, 1937: The tragedy struck Great Britain, as newly-crowned King George VI was killed in IRA bombing in Belfast. He was succeeded by his 11-year old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, now known as Queen Elizabeth II.

July 29, 1937: Prime Minister Chamberlain accused the Irish Free State authorities of being involved in King George's assassination. Prime Minister Eamon De Valera rejected these claims.

August 12, 1937: Attorney General Earl Warren of California is nominated by President La Follette's to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. While La Follette intended to nominate his Attorney General, William O. Douglas, he know he couldn't stomach another dangerous political battle now. Warren is relatively easily confirmed.

August 15, 1937: Mongolia officially becomes a Soviet Republic.

September 5, 1937: Francoist forces are curshed in the battle of Llanes, which effectively marked the end of an rebellion. While fights will continue until mid-1938, Republican Government is in control.

October 3, 1937: With an incredible tensions between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State, the relations between London and Washington, despite President La Follette's wishes to stay away from any European problems, are damaged as well. The large Irish population in the U.S., which is an important part of the Progressive base, openly supports their sisters in brothers in old country.

December 11, 1937: Italy withdraws from the League of Nations.