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Quotes About 1936

In 1936 the New York Jesuits opened Xavier Labor School in Chelsea—the West Side's preeminent waterfront neighborhood—designed to combat the infiltration of local unions by communists, the ultimate outsiders.
~ James T. Fisher
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
~ J. Michael Bishop
My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
~ George Stigler
This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.
~ Alan Furst
My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.
~ William Shockley
Himmler encouraged Gestapo and Kripo to do their bit, and in 1936 a new 'Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion' was created to register all homosexuals investigated by police.
~ Robert Gellately
After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.
~ Luis Federico Leloir
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
~ George Stigler
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.
~ Matt Bomer
I tried finding out all I could about Mary Astor. My curiosity was obviously prurient in nature, whetted by those 1936 tabloids. They had given me an itch to find out all I could about the scandal.
~ Edward Sorel
In 1936, the federal court struck down all federal restrictions against birth control, in a case memorably named U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries.
~ Gail Collins
Hitler and Mussolini independently but simultaneously decided to intervene on the same side in Spain. This in turn led to a formal meeting between Hitler and Foreign Minister Ciano in October 1936, after which the formation of a "Rome-Berlin Axis" was announced.
~ Stanley G. Payne
In 1936, money had no important role. Interest rates were one-eighth of one-eighth of one per cent. I did some research, and I found that the interest on one million dollars of ninety-day Treasuries was $37. People didn't even bother to collect it. The Fed wasn't important.
~ Paul Samuelson
Pensando en España, Orwell le dijo en cierta ocasión a Koestler: "la historia se paró en 1936".
~ Juan Pablo Fusi
My mother was a skier who represented Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, and she was very health-conscious.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
~ Wong Kar-wai
The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
Anna Freud's book The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense (1936) was a partial response to this problem. It became a psychoanalytic field marshal's handbook, documenting and illustrating various unconscious defensive strategies of the ego, alerting the clinician to telltale signs of their operation in the patient's psyche. Reorienting
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.
~ Terry Pratchett
God 1936 Jevreji su podsticali donošenje tzv. socijalnih zakona koji su narušili odnose izmedju poslodavaca i zaposlenih i doveli do propasti i nezaposlenosti.
~ Kenizé Mourad
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
In 1936, the Works Progress Administration established a Pack Horse Librarians unit to serve the mountain communities in Kentucky.
~ Susan Orlean
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
~ Bill Alexander
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times are hard. Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy on the run, and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman
~ Christopher Paul Curtis