Construction of Chickamauga Dam begun. Norris Dam, first Unit of TVA, completed. Coal miners strike at Jamestown. State militia called out. Unemployment compensation law enacted at special session of legislature.
Floods cause much property damage.
Strike closes fabricating plant of Aluminum Company of America at Alcoa. Governor Gordon Browning's unit bill for proportional suffrage among counties passed at special session of Legislature. 1938 County unit bill invalidated by Tennessee Supreme Court. 1939 State legislature overrides Governors veto of act to permit, or forbid at county's option, package sales of alcoholic liquor.