In 1927 Fuller resolved to think independently which included a commitment to " the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them ... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more.

Throughout April 1927, more than people were killed in Shanghai.

Hoover fought for more power to control the proliferation of licensed radio stations ( which in 1927, stood at 732 stations ).

In a manner similar to the typographic experimentation by Herbert Bayer at the Bauhaus, and Jan Tschichold's Die neue Typographie, Schwitters experimented with the creation of a new more phonetic alphabet in 1927.

Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin ( manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920 ), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece ; the Army-Navy style with a flat back and top ; and the Vega mando-lute ( more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927 ), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

Biographer Stuart Schram would later comment that during the period between 1925 and 1927, Mao was closer to the Kuomintang than he was to the Communist Party, something he attributed to Mao's belief that the good of China was more important than the cause of socialism.

The Court was mandated to open on 15 June each year, and continue until all cases were finished, with extraordinary sessions if required ; by 1927, there were more extraordinary sessions than ordinary ones.

In 1927 the Court appointed a committee to look at this issue, and it reported that " where there are in fact contending parties, the difference between contentious cases and advisory cases is only nominal ... so the view that advisory opinions are not binding is more theoretical than real ".

After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, " talkies " became more and more commonplace.

By the mid-1920s many American silent films had adopted a more naturalistic acting style, though not all actors and directors accepted naturalistic, low-key acting straight away ; as late as 1927, films featuring expressionistic acting styles, such as Metropolis, were still being released.

In 1927 more entered the market from, Cadillac, Franklin, Hispano-Suiza, Horch, Lagonda, Maybach, Packard, Rolls, Tatra, Voisin, and Walter offering V12 engines.

By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.

It is described as " a sinister tale " that portrays " the corruption and social chaos so much in evidence in Berlin and more generally, according to Lang, in Weimar Germany ". Futurism is another favourite expressionist theme, shown corrupted into a force of oppression in the dystopia in Metropolis ( 1927 ).

Marketed as a slightly more upscale competitor to the ubiquitous Ford Model T, it pioneered or made standard many features later taken for granted: all-steel body construction ( the vast majority of cars worldwide still used wood-framing under steel panels, though Stoneleigh and BSA used steel bodies as early as 1911 ); 12-volt electrical system ( 6-volt systems would remain the norm until the 1950s ); 35 horsepower ( versus the Model T's 20 ), and sliding-gear transmission ( the best-selling Model T would retain an antiquated planetary design until its demise in 1927 ).

Despite all this, Dodge Brothers ’ sales had already dropped to seventh place in the industry by 1927, and Dillon, Read began looking for someone to take over the company on a more permanent basis.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

The subject was discussed in more detail by Dr. John Ball in 1927.

Since 1927, the king cheetah was reported five more times in the wild.

The scheme of contributed essays Foss had originally brought to Milford appeared in 1927 as the Heritage of Music ( two more volumes would appear over the next thirty years ).

During the ' 20s, Peugeot expanded, in 1926 splitting the cycle ( pedal and motor ) business off to form Cycles Peugeot, the consistently profitable cycle division seeking to free itself from the rather more cyclical auto business, and taking over the defunct Bellanger and De Dion companies in 1927.

Seventh Heaven is the 13th highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in more than $ 2. 5 million at the box office in 1927.

Later that year at Sotheby's in London, Peinture ( Etoile Bleue ) ( 1927 ) brought nearly 23. 6 million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The 1927 parliamentary Select Committee on Peerages in Abeyance recommended that no abeyance should be considered which is longer in date than 100 years or where the claimant lays claim to at least one third of the dignity.

The Secret Grimoire of Turiel claims to have been written in the 16th century, but no copy older than 1927 has been produced.

Later, Pope Pius XI on 2 June 1927 decreed the Comma Johanneum was open to dispute and Pope Pius XII on 3 September 1943 decreed the Divino Afflante Spiritu which allowed translations based on other versions than just the Latin Vulgate, notably in English the New American Bible.

When that job ended sooner than expected, in October 1927, Beiderbecke and Trumbauer signed on with Whiteman.

Burton was less than two years old in 1927 when his mother, Edith Maude ( née Thomas ), died at the age of 43 after giving birth to her 13th child.

Swing music began in the 1920s, distinguished by a more supple feel than the more literal 4 / 4 of earlier jazz and a walking bass — Walter Page is often credited with developing this, though isolated earlier examples exist ( e. g., by Wellman Braud on Ellington's Washington Wabble from 1927 ).

Wilhelm retired with the lowest career Earned Run Average of any Major League hurler after 1927 ( Walter Johnson ) who pitched more than 2, 000 innings.

Less than three weeks after the flight the U. S. Post Office Department issued a 10-cent " Lindbergh Air Mail " stamp ( Scott C-10 ) on June 11, 1927 with engraved illustrations of both the Spirit of St. Louis and a map of its route from New York to Paris.

The period after 1927 marked the advent of new measurements of the speed of light using novel electro-optic devices, all substantially lower than Michelson's 1926 value.

By the 1920s, it was in more than forty countries and had more than 766, 000 members paying dues at its peak in 1927.

Many believe that the interest and development by Mr. Stovall contributed to the on-going growth of the town more than any other individual at this time ( Tri-County Advertiser, June 16, 1927.

from: 1925 till: 1927 color: ALP $ left text :" Jack Lang_1925-1927 "

from: 1927 till: 1930 color: NAT $ right text :" 1927-1930_Thomas Bavin "

In 1927, Capone and his gang were pulling in approximately $ 60 million per year-most of it from beer.

A radio-based transatlantic telephone service was started in 1927, charging £ 9 ( about $ 45 USD, or roughly $ 550 in 2010 dollars ) for three minutes and handling around 2000 calls a year.

The film, completed with a budget of $ 2 million, was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture ( then called " Best Picture, Production ") for the film year 1927 / 1928, and won a second Academy Award for Engineering Effects.

His Two on the Aisle ( 1927 ) sold for a personal record $ 1, 500, enabling Hopper to purchase an automobile, which he used to make field trips to remote areas of New England.

* 1927 LINK-valued at US $ 40, 000 and extremely rare

On June 2, 1927 Juan Trippe formed the Aviation Corporation of the Americas ( ACA ) with the backing of powerful and politically connected financiers who included Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and W. Averell Harriman, and raised $ 250, 000 in startup capital from the sale of stock.

The new courthouse was built from 1927 to 1928 at a cost of about $ 250, 000.

The Route 4 interchange with New Jersey Route 17 | Route 17 in Paramus, New Jersey | Paramus that underwent a $ 120 million improvement completed in 1999, as viewed from Route 17 south. Route 4 was originally legislated in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering to run from Cape May north to the George Washington Bridge, running through Pleasantville, Toms River, Freehold, Perth Amboy, Rahway, and Paterson.

In 1927, a new school site was selected, and a new school built for $ 45, 000.

In 1927 – 28, at the end of the silent era, the production cost of an average feature from a major Hollywood studio ranged from $ 190, 000 at Fox to $ 275, 000 at MGM.

In 1927, Firestone Tire Company bought some of the land at $ 7, 000 an acre.

On 9 May 1927, a half-mile wide tornado ripped through Nevada, leaving 27 dead, 75 injured, and property damage exceeding $ 1 million.

This came with a $ 1, 500 stipend for the period from September 1927 to June 1928.

The California state legislature made additional appropriations of $ 10, 000 each in 1917, 1925, 1927 and 1929.

A $ 3, 000, 000 loan for a new Central Library was approved by Baltimore voters by an almost 3-to-1 margin on May 3, 1927.

Harvard ’ s initial offer in 1927 of $ 50, 000 toward the statue was enough for a statue, but inadequate to provide the general with a horse.

The Last purse offered at Monroe Track in 1927 was for $ 31, 000.

Howell Co. of Babylon, NY in 1927 at a cost of $ 26. 500. 00.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation is undertaking a $ 225 million project on the 12th and 14th Street Viaducts, built in 1927 and 1950 respectively.

In early 1927, Hornsby was able to sell his shares at $ 105 each, enabling him to officially become a Giant.