By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

By 1930, Hollywood was in upheaval over the coming of " talkies " and many careers ( both actors and directors ) were ruined.

By 1930 Honduras had become the world's leading producer of the fruit, accounting for one-third of the world's supply of bananas.

By 1930 Himmler had persuaded Hitler to run the SS as a separate organisation, although it was still subordinate to the SA.

By 1930 Batavia had more than 500, 000 inhabitants, including 37, 067 Europeans.

By 1930, Pickford's career as an actress had greatly faded.

By late 1930, audiences had been oversaturated with musicals and studios were forced to cut the music from films that were then being released.

By 1930, modernism had won a place in the establishment, including the political and artistic establishment, although by this time modernism itself had changed.

By 1930, Modernism had entered popular culture.

By 1930 The New Yorker magazine began publishing new and modern ideas by young writers and humorists like Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, E. B.

By the beginning of 1930, Tombaugh's search had reached the constellation of Gemini.

By 1930, quantum mechanics had been further unified and formalized by the work of Paul Dirac and John von Neumann, with a greater emphasis placed on measurement in quantum mechanics, the statistical nature of our knowledge of reality, and philosophical speculation about the role of the observer.

By defeating William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1930 federal election, he had the misfortune of taking office during the Great Depression.

By 4 December 1930, Eisenstein was en route to Mexico by train, accompanied by Aleksandrov and Tisse.

By the time Powell had left King Edward's School in 1930, he had confirmed his instinctive belief that the Armistice was merely temporary and that Britain would be at war with Germany again.

By 1930, rotary flowmeters were accepted as indirect substitutes.

The original Looney Tunes theatrical series ran from 1930 to 1969 ( the last short being Bugged By A Bee, by Robert McKimson ).

By 1930, Tyrone Guthrie had written plays for the BBC like Matrimonial News ( which consists entirely of the thoughts of a shopgirl awaiting a blind date ) and The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick ( which takes place inside the mind of a drowning man ).

By 1930, the Communist Red Army had established the Chinese Soviet Republic in the provinces of Jiangxi and Fujian around the city of Ruijin, including industrial facilities.

By 1930, Maranzano ’ s chief aides were Bonanno ( as underboss and chief of staff ), Tommy Lucchese and Joseph Magliocco.

" By Sophie Wenzel Ellis in Astounding Stories of Super Science, February 1930 it was referred to as ; " Yet, for all his experience with hero worshippers to put an adamantine crust on his sensibilities, he grew warm-eared under the gaze of these two strangers "

By then, Astaire's tap dancing was recognized as among the best, as Robert Benchley wrote in 1930, " I don't think that I will plunge the nation into war by stating that Fred is the greatest tap-dancer in the world.

By the end of 1930, the Phonofilm business would be liquidated.

By 1964, membership had risen to 80, 000, and the ACLU was directly involved in a major expansion of civil liberties.

By 1933, the party had approximately 3. 5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1. 9 million by 1939.

By contrast, Unitarian membership more than tripled in the same fifteen years.

By the mid 1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with membership rising to over a hundred and including every class of Victorian society.

By 1905 membership had dwindled to just three members and the Society was dissolved.

By 1890, however, the Society was in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy with a depleted and aged membership.

By the end of the 1980s, membership had fallen to just over 6, 000, 000 — little more than half the level of a decade earlier — and it also counted against the Labour Party's hopes of regaining power, as its relationship with the trade unions had traditionally been seen as a strength but after the Winter of Discontent it was seen as a liability.

By 1987, 31 % of the executive positions in the Sandinista government, 27 % of the leadership positions of the FSLN, and 25 % of the FSLN's active membership were women.

By the opening of the 2008 General Conference, total UMC membership was estimated at 11. 4 million, with about 7. 9 million in the U. S. and 3. 5 million overseas.

By the end of the year, due to dwindling active membership and limited remaining development capacity, the XFree86 Core Team voted to disband itself.

By the mid-1920s membership was already declining due to government repression and it decreased again substantially during a contentious organizational schism in 1924 when the organization split between the " Westerners " and the " Easterners " over a number of issues, including the role of the General Administration ( often oversimplified as a struggle between " centralists " and " decentralists ") and attempts by the Communist Party to dominate the organization.

By 1925, the Klan was a powerful political force in the state, as urban politicians such as J. Thomas Heflin, David Bibb Graves, and Hugo Black manipulated the KKK membership against the power of the " Big Mule " industrialists and especially the Black Belt planters who had long dominated the state.

By the mid-1960s, the percentage of ethnic Estonian membership stabilized near 50 %.

By 2001, the membership had increased to approximately 2, 100 men in 25 provinces, 700 enclosed nuns in 70 monasteries, and 13 affiliated Congregations and Institutes.

By contrast, fuzzy set theory permits the gradual assessment of the membership of elements in a set ; this is described with the aid of a membership function valued in the real unit interval.

By 2005, tribal membership grew to 785.

By this time, the union ’ s membership consisted of Craft journeymen, and sympathetic small Master Artisans were excluded because of their status.

By the late 1980s membership had reached 200, 000, increasing to 260, 000 in 1995, and over 500, 000 by 2004.

By 1969 membership had increased to 600, and volunteers completed around 6000 workdays a year.

By this time the original ten-member lineup of Parliament-Funkadelic had begun to splinter, but many others joined for various album releases by either band, leading to a collective with a fluid and rapidly expanding membership.

By 1912, membership had grown to 1, 200 and a third building was dedicated on the same site in 1917.

By 1914, Whitten was proud of its church membership of 170, its schools, three general stores, a blacksmith shop, restaurant, bank, produce house, implement store, and two doctors.

By then, four congregations existed with a confessing membership of 800.