* Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau ( 1908 ), the first comparative law journal in the U. S

" Focusing upon Adair v. U. S. ( 1908 ), which invalidated another law regulating labor contracts, he berated the Court for not recognizing the " practical conditions of inequality.

The short experiment in imperialism ended by 1908, as the U. S. turned its attention to the Panama Canal and the stabilization of regions to its south, including Mexico.

In a 1908 interview with U. S. journalist James Creelman published in Pearson's Magazine, Porfirio Díaz said that Mexico was ready for a democracy and that the 1910 presidential election would be a free election.

In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U. S .- based General Motors ( GM ) automotive group in 1931.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

* 1999 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Harry Blackmun, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1999 )

* 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician ( d. 1963 )

By 1907, REO had gross sales of $ 4. 5 million and the company was one of the four wealthiest automobile manufacturers in the U. S. After 1908 however, despite the introduction of improved cars designed by Olds, REO's share of the automobile market decreased due in part to competition from emerging companies like Ford and General Motors.

In 1908, the chlorination of drinking water was a significant step in the control of typhoid fever in the U. S. The first permanent disinfection of drinking water in the U. S. occurred on the Jersey City, New Jersey water supply.

In 1908, Oregon passed the first law that based the selection of U. S. senators on a popular vote.

* July 4 – Henry ( Hank ) Sylvern, U. S. radio personality ( b. 1908 )

* May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, U. S. Senator ( b. 1908 )

Roosevelt added adjacent national forest lands and redesignated the preserve a U. S. National Monument on January 11, 1908.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

* John H. McCarthy ( 1850 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from New York

* Charles Pelham ( congressman ) ( 1835 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from Alabama

In 1908 U. S. inventor, businessman and engine builder Glenn Curtiss flew an aileron-controlled aircraft, with wingtip ailerons of a similar form to what the contemporaty Bleriot VIII used, and the famous 1911-vintage Curtiss Model D pusher biplane had interplane ailerons of a similar nature to those on the final form of the Santos = Dumont 14-bis.

One of the first U. S. motor roads, the Long Island Motor Parkway ( which opened on October 10, 1908 ) was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Governor Broward ran for the U. S. Senate in 1908 but lost.

* John E. Horne ( 1908 – 1985 )-Administrator of the U. S. Small Business Administration

Founded in 1908, the town was named after Ely Parker, the first Native American commissioner for the U. S. government.

* William T. Nelson ( 1908 – 1994 ), U. S. Navy rear admiral

U ' Ren also helped in the passage of an amendment in 1908 that gave voters power to recall elected officials, and would go on to establish, at the state level, popular election of U. S. Senators and the first presidential primary in the United States.

" If It's Good Enough for Washington It's Good Enough for Me " with words by Ren Shields, from 1908, was a song about a homeless man sleeping on a bench in a public square with statues of Washington, Jefferson, McKinley, Grant and Lee.

By 1908 public and diplomatic pressure led Leopold II to the annex the Congo as the Belgian Congo colony.

The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major organizations-Cines, based in Rome ; and the Turin-based companies ' Ambrosio ' and ' Itala Film '.

Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.

The early beginnings of the national Mau movement began in 1908 with the ' Mau a Pule ' resistance on Savai ' i, led by orator chief Lauaki Namulau ' ulu Mamoe.

The Democratic Party, led by William Jennings Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894, and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.

In 1908 a group led by Daniel DeLeon argued that political action through DeLeon's Socialist Labor Party ( SLP ) was the best way to attain the IWW's goals.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The Democratic Party's continued enchantment with the populist William Jennings Bryan led Hill to support Republican presidential candidates William McKinley ( 1896 and 1900 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1904 ), William Howard Taft ( 1908 and 1912 ).

Mocquereau's editorial team only lasted a year: owing to editorial disagreements with Mocquereau, Pothier ended up in charge of the editing which, amongst other things, led to the production of a revised Graduale Romanum in 1908.

In 1908 a large race riot erupted in the city which culminated in the lynching of two African American residents and led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

During 1907 and 1908, he led the development of a new Entente cordiale with England, France had a successful role in European politics.

Amalgamation under the Earl of Dysart led to The British-Israel Association in 1886, which mutated into the Imperial British-Israel Association in 1908 and finally the British-Israel-World Federation in 1919.

The German Baptist Brethren suffered a major division in the early 1880s, creating three wings: traditionalists such as the Old German Baptist Brethren, progressives led by The Brethren Church, and the conservatives, who adopted the name Church of the Brethren in 1908.

Worrall led the club to its first three VFL premierships, won consecutively, in 1906, 1907 and 1908.

A Methodist Episcopal meeting in the Clapp family home in 1908 eventually led to the present Beech Grove United Methodist Church.

In 1908, the IWW launched a campaign led by James H. Walsh with the slogan " Don't Buy Jobs " in the streets around the Spokane employment agencies.

In 1908, Gustav Mahler led the orchestra in the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7.

The Populist Party, led by William Jennings Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894, and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.

His great-grandfather Philip E. Layton was a blind activist who founded the Montreal Association for the Blind in 1908 and led a campaign for disability pensions in the 1930s.

That led to the founding of the American Iron and Steel Institute in 1908, with Elbert H. Gary as its first chief executive.

By 1908, public pressure and diplomatic manoeuvres led to the end of Leopold II's rule and to the annexation of the Congo as a colony of Belgium, known as the Belgian Congo.

The introduction of dedicated ski lifts in 1908 led to an evolution of skiing as a sport.

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.