Nikitchenko presided over some of the most notorious of Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purges of 1936 to 1938, where he among other things sentenced Kamenev and Zinoviev.

This was manifested, among other things, by international recognitions granted to its professors, such as the Fields medal received by the mathematician Lars Ahlfors ( 1936 ), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry granted to Professor A. I.

In his 1936 essay, " The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action ", Merton uncovered the wide field of human activity where things do not go as planned, and paradoxes and strange outcomes are seen.

By mid-1937 Loos had decided not to renew her contract with MGM ; since Thalberg's death in Sept 1936 things had not been going well at the studio and every film felt like a struggle.

Following a visit to Germany in 1936, Lindbergh wrote: " While I still have my reservations, I have come away with great admiration for the German people ... Hitler must have far more vision and character than I thought … With all the things we criticize he is undoubtedly a great man …" Although America First avoided any appearance of antisemitism and voted to drop Henry Ford as a member for this reason, Ford continued his good friendship with Lindbergh, who visited him in the summer of 1941.

Additional competition from the Lincoln-Zephyr, introduced in 1936, did not help things either.

Norvo recorded 8 modern swing sides for Columbia in 1934 – 1935, and 15 sides of Decca and their short-lived Champion label series in 1936 ( strangely enough, Jack Kapp ran Decca, so they must've patched things up by then ).

Allen turned things around in Cleveland, going 20-10 with a 3. 44 ERA in 1936 and following that up by winning his first fifteen decisions of, one short of the record held by Walter Johnson.

It seemed things were back on track and the fans started to flock back to Old Trafford as United finished 5th, and they announced their return to the top flight with a shout as they won the Second Division title in 1936 after being unbeaten in the last 19 games of the season.

Ribbentrop arrived to take up his position in October 1936.

* Hearts of Iron III-( Paradox Interactive, 2009 )-a complex and realistic grand strategy wargame that allows the player to take control of almost any nation that existed or even plausibly could have existed during the period of 1936 – 1948, guiding it through World War II.

Today, use Interstate 80 to connect from University Avenue down to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ( opened in 1936 ) to cross the bay into San Francisco, then take the Embarcadero from the Bay Bridge northwestward along the waterfront to connect to the Hyde Street Pier in Fisherman's Wharf.

* On 9 December 1936 ( 1936 KLM Croydon accident ), A KLM Douglas DC-2 crashed on take off at Croydon Airport on a flight to Amsterdam.

Lynch sat his Leaving Certificate in 1936, after which he moved to Dublin and worked with the Dublin District Milk Board, before returning to Cork to take up a position in the Circuit Court Office.

" When I really learn to act, I may take what I have learned back to Hollywood and display it on the screen ", she said in an interview in October 1936 ( when she was doing Stage Door on Broadway between movies ).

The Duke of Gloucester left the army to take on more public duties following the abdication of King Edward VIII in December 1936.

Hailing from Skjeberg, he was first elected to the Parliament of Norway representing Oslo in 1936, but did not take a seat in the Parliament until 1948.

* Time on October 12, 1936: " When Jesus Christ first appeared to His assembled disciples after His resurrection, He told them that believers ' shall speak with new tongues ; they shall take up serpents ' ( Mark: 16: 17, 18 ).

But Morris and Lord fell out, and after 15 years Lord left in 1936 – threatening to " take Cowley apart brick by brick ".

In 1927 he returned to the University to take up a position as Regius Professor of Modern History, where the single student whose doctorate he agreed to supervise was J. H. Plumb ( 1936 ).

E. R. Punshon reviewed the novel in the February 6, 1936 issue of The Guardian when he said, " Some readers are drawn to the detective novel by the sheer interest of watching and perhaps anticipating the logical development of a given theme, others take their pleasure in following the swift succession of events in an exciting story, and yet others find themselves chiefly interested in the psychological reactions caused by crime impinging upon the routine of ordinary life.

* The 2007 docu / drama film The Beckoning Silence features mountaineer Joe Simpson, of Touching the Void fame, recounting — with filmed reconstructions — the ill-fated 1936 expedition up the north face of the Eiger and how Heinrich Harrer's book The White Spider inspired him to take up climbing.

After making A Modern Hero ( 1934 ) in the U. S. and Mademoiselle Docteur ( 1936 ) in France, Pabst returned to Austria and Germany in 1938 — to take care of family business, he later claimed.

John Boettiger was hired by William Randolph Hearst to take over as publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer following a bitter labor dispute with its employees in 1936.

The activists in the Regiment decided to take direct action in the early morning on February 26, 1936, before they were to depart for Manchuria.

In November 1936, Richthofen left the staff to take a field command in the Condor Legion, a Luftwaffe contingent sent to support General Francisco Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

However, these changes threatened Brezhnev, and Brezhnev would later order Konstantin Chernenko to take a look at the 1936 Soviet Constitution to find a way to weaken Podgorny's position.

The castle remained in Florida City until about 1936 when Leedskalnin decided to move and take the castle with him to its final location on 28655 South Dixie Highway Miami, FL 33033.

* The infamous 1936 Summer Olympics take place in Berlin

Still ill, he returned to the Netherlands in 1936 to take up residence in a nursing home in Hilversum, where he died on October 5, just after his 38th birthday and one month after the publication of his last collection of verse, Een eerlijk zeemansgraf (" An Honourable Seaman's Grave ").

It lasted from 1925, following recommendations that the RAF take control of homeland air defence, and lasted until 1936 when it became RAF Fighter Command.

In 1936, Hammond left Ireland to take up position as Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney.

Milton Brown's tragic and untimely death in 1936 had cleared the way for the Playboys.

Their work provides a capstone to what some have called the “ Silver Age ” of Spanish Letters, a period that began with the veritable explosion of novel production following the bloodless coup of 1868 and that would come to a tragic end with the outbreak of civil war in July 1936.

" In Cleophas and His Own, written in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1936 and re-printed in Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia, Hartley expresses his immense grief at the tragic drowning of the Mason sons.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Antecedents to the contemporary minivan include the Stout Scarab, which in 1936 featured a removable table and second row seats that turn 180 degrees to face the rear – a feature that Chrysler marketed as Swivel ' n Go.

* Punch gave its name to the Lucknow-based satirical Urdu weekly Awadh Punch ( 1877 – 1936 ), which in turn inspired dozens of other " Punch " periodicals in India.

They will not turn professional until 1936.

Although she made her film debut in 1936, it would be Rutherford's turn as Madame Arcati in David Lean's film of Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) that would actually establish her screen success.

Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.

In an effort to make AVUS the " world's fastest race track ", the 1936 season was skipped and while the track hosted the cycling road race, the marathon and 50 km walk athletic events of the 1936 Summer Olympics, the north curve was turned into a steeply banked turn ( 43 °) made of bricks.

Among the most important literary births during the turn of the 18th to 19th century were those of Margaret Mitchell and Zelda Fitzgerald, the former of which would go on to pen one of the most successful novels of all time, Gone With the Wind, published in 1936.

CNR's radio assets were sold for $ 50, 000 to a new public broadcaster, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which in turn became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1936.

Unemployment began a modest fall in 1934 and fell further in 1935 and 1936, but the rise in employment levels occurred mostly in the south, where lower interest rates had spurred the house building boom, which in turn spurred a recovery in domestic industry.

Republican forces captured Moscardó's 24-year-old son Luis, and on 23 July 1936 informed Moscardó that if he did not turn over the alcázar within ten minutes his son would die.

In 1936, the French arm of Hispano-Suiza was told to stop production of cars and turn solely to aircraft engines once again.

Despite his earlier differences with Dr. Schacht, Goerdeler together with Schacht headed the " free-market " faction in the German government who during the economic crisis of 1936 urged Hitler to reduce military spending, turn away from autarkic and protectionist policies, and reduce statism in the economy.

Thalberg, a " boy genius " until his death at the age of 37 in 1936, was held in high regard inside and outside Hollywood, as he appeared to be able to divine successful films continuously ; knowing in his head how much a certain kind of picture would gross, which, in turn, told him how much could be profitably to spent on its production.

In 1936, Rosenfeld would turn her attention to journalism.

Avery had used a similar gag in his 1941 Merrie Melodies short Tortoise Beats Hare, which in turn was an expansion / exaggeration of the premise of his The Blow Out ( 1936 ).

Simpson went on to become a labour leader and was the vice-president of the Toronto and District Trades and Labour Council at the turn of the century and also served three terms as vice-president of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada between 1904 and 1936.

Behrman, which in turn had been adapted from Marcel Pagnol's trilogy: Marius ( 1929 ) and Fanny ( 1932 ), plays which he adapted to film a year or two later ; and César, the film he wrote and directed for the screen in 1936 ( and later adapted for the stage ).

They also led to the formation of anti-fascism leagues and to the agreement between the SFIO socialist party and the communist party, which in turn led to the 1936 Popular Front.

This paper was in turn terminated after about 18 months when the main section of the WPUS joined the Socialist Party of America en masse in 1936 and was replaced by a new publication Socialist Appeal by Trotskyists in the SPA.

On June 19, 1936 it was renamed Black Warrior National Forest, which in turn was renamed William B. Bankhead National Forest on June 17, 1942.

Her 1936 novel Turn, Magic Wheel, the first work that received both critical acclaim and reasonably good sales, marked a turn to social satire in a New York setting.

The company rented the sign to Nycander & Co who in turn placed the sign on top of their Nycander factory at 627 Victoria Street in 1936.