They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.

Bertrand, who had been his vice president, returned to the presidency and in 1916 won election for a term that lasted until 1920.

López Gutiérrez won easily in a manipulated election, and in October 1920 he assumed the presidency.

In the 1920 elections the Communists won 59 seats in the parliament and became the third strongest party.

A rising sense of Latvian nationalism from the 1850s onwards bore fruit after World War I when, after two years of struggle in the Russian Civil War, Latvia finally won sovereign independence recognised by Russia in 1920 and by the international community in 1921.

Gondra won the presidential election in 1920, but the schaereristas undermined his power and forced him to resign.

The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, the U. S. never joined the League, and the Republicans won a landslide in 1920 by denouncing Wilson's policies.

The Bruins have had at least one competitor in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception ( 1924 ), and UCLA has won a gold medal in every Olympics since 1932 with the exception of 1980 ( boycott ).

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

The navy rowing team won the gold medal at 1920 Summer Olympics Games held in Antwerp, Belgium.

Two endings were written for the play, the original as seen in December 1920 ( and the ending that won Gale the Pulitzer Prize from Drama ; the first woman ever to do so ) has Lulu starting a life on her own and undertaking adventures of her own as we hear in her final lines, " Good-by.

In 1920, Reece won the Republican nomination for Tennessee's 1st Congressional District, based in the Tri-Cities region in the northeastern part of the state.

United States Steel Corporation, which was much larger than Standard Oil, won its antitrust suit in 1920 despite never having delivered the benefits to consumers that Standard Oil did.

In 1920, his quick memory won him a chance to replace the leading man in a stage production, and he scored an immediate hit.

The city's three schools have won a combined 11 state championships in football since 1920.

* Loren Murchison ( 1898 – 1979 ), Olympic athlete who won gold medals in 1920 and 1924 in the 4x100m relay event.

* Charlie Paddock, Olympic sprinter who won gold in 1920

* Robert Montgomery ( sport shooter ) ( 1893 – after 1920 ), Canadian sport shooter who won silver medal for Canada at the 1920 Summer Olympics

She attended Wakefield Girls High School, and won a scholarship and studied at the Leeds School of Art from 1920 ( where she met Moore ).

The 1920 race was won by Gaston Chevrolet in a Frontenac, prepared by his brothers, powered by the first eight-cylinder engine to win the 500.

On 14 November 1920, the monarchists won, and Dimitrios Rallis became prime minister ; Venizelos chose to leave in self-exile.

This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Home Rule Bills, of which two were passed, the Third Home Rule Act won by John Redmond and most notably the Government of Ireland Act 1920 ( which created the home rule parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland -- the latter state did not in reality function and was replaced by the Irish Free State ), which was enacted.

At the 1922 and 1923 elections the Liberals won barely a third of the vote and only a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons, as many radical voters abandoned the divided Liberals and went over to Labour.

LaGuardia, running as a Republican, won a seat in Congress from the Italian stronghold of East Harlem in 1922 and served in the House until March 3, 1933.

Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1 – 0 to Burnley It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923, but did not win another trophy until the 1946 – 47 season, when the club won the First Division for a fifth time.

At the 1922 election, it won enough seats to deny the Nationalists an overall majority, and was the Nationalists ' only realistic coalition partner.

Turkey won the War of Independence in 1922.

) The army of the government of the GNA won the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.

Wabash won the first national intercollegiate championship basketball tournament ever held in 1922.

Blunden's next book of poems, The Shepherd, published in 1922 won the Hawthornden Prize, but his poetry, though well reviewed, did not provide enough to live on, and in 1924 he accepted the post of Professor of English at the University of Tokyo.

Racing continued as well, with Boillot entering the 1919 Targa Florio in a 2. 5-liter ( 150ci ) car designed for an event pre-empted by World War One ; the car had on it, yet Boillot won with an impressive drive ( the best of his career ) Peugeots in his hands were third in the 1925 Targa, first in the 1922 and 1925 Coppa Florios, first in the 1923 and 1925 Touring Car Grands Prix, and first at the 1926 Spa 24 Hours.

The film was directed by Leo McCarey, who won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was written by Viña Delmar, with uncredited assistance from Sidney Buchman and Leo McCarey, from the 1922 play by Arthur Richman.

Odds BK / Odd Grenland won the Norwegian Football Cup in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931 and 2000, more than any other team in Norway.

By his own account, Crisp was effeminate in behaviour from an early age and found himself the object of teasing at Kingswood House School in Epsom, from where he won a scholarship to Denstone College, Uttoxeter, in 1922.

As chairman of the Public Service Commission in 1922, Long won a lawsuit against the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company for unfair rate increases, resulting in cash refunds of $ 440, 000 to 80, 000 overcharged customers.

Gene Sarazen ( Eugenio Saraceni ) won both the Professional Golf Association and U. S. Open Tournaments in 1922.

In 1922 he won the Prix Blumenthal and in 1923 became part of the Ecole d ’ Arcueil.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

* Alice Adams ( 1921 ; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize ; filmed 1923 and 1935 )

Cyclists Firmin Lambot, who won the Tour de France in 1919 and in 1922 and Léon Scieur, who won the Tour in 1921, were born in Florennes.

Jones was one of six Americans who won The Open between the First and Second World Wars, the first of whom had been Walter Hagen in 1922.

The sequel The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle ( 1922 ) won the prestigious Newbery Medal.

Mary Katherine Campbell, Miss Columbus, Ohio, won in both 1922 and 1923, and was also first runner-up in 1924.

She was the second-longest-reigning Miss America: in the early days of the pageant, Mary Katherine Campbell from Ohio won the pageant twice, in 1922 and again in 1923.