Clues:
Amelia Earhart disappears; FDR’s Supreme Court packing scheme is voted down; Fats Waller’s “Smarty” is a chart-topper; Vanessa Redgrave & Rudy Marloth are born; John D. Rockefeller & Bessie Smith die; Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the UK; USSR executes 31 people accused of Trotskyism; and the first issue of Look magazine is published.
