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

The last provincial election had been held in June 1917, and four years was the normal life of a legislature in Canada.

Since the 1917 election was held in the throes of the First World War, it was unlikely to be an election as usual — indeed, the Conservatives favoured prolonging the legislature until the end of the war.

In 1917, the Texas legislature passed a bill creating a branch of Texas A & M to be located in Abilene.

* the legislature of Puerto Rico between 1900 and 1917

Threats from the increasingly Bolshevistic deserting soldiers of the former Caucasus army, ethnic clashes and anarchy in the region forced the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani politicians to create a unified regional authority known as the Transcaucasian Commissariat ( November 14, 1917 ) and later a legislature, the Sejm ( January 23, 1918 ).

The first African-American elected to the legislature was Edward A. Johnson, a Republican, in 1917.

In 1917, Rowell, a supporter of conscription during World War I left the Ontario legislature and broke with Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party of Canada to join the national Unionist government of Sir Robert Borden as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and was appointed to Borden's government as President of the Privy Council of Canada in October 1917 and was also made vice-chairman of the government's War Committee giving him primary responsibility for organizing the war effort and enforcing conscription.

In 1917, he was chosen leader of the Liberal Party and, as such, became Leader of the Opposition in the legislature.

Completed in 1917, the building is the fifth to serve as the Wisconsin capitol since the first territorial legislature convened during 1836 and the third building since Wisconsin was granted statehood during 1848.

" On February 27, 1917, the legislature passed the bill to adopt this flag as the official Arizona State Flag despite dissenting votes and Governor Campbell ’ s refusal to affix his signature to the bill.

Murray was first elected to the legislature in 1908 and served as Minister of Agriculture before becoming Premier in 1917 only to have his government defeated in the general election weeks later.

He was elected to the provincial legislature in 1917 and served as Speaker from 1921 to 1925 and served briefly as Minister of Lands and Mines in 1925 until the defeat of the Liberal government.

Also during his 1917 tenure, the flag of Arizona was adopted by the legislature without Campbell's consent.

Created in 1900 as the House of Delegates under the Foraker Act, the lower body of the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly was the only elected body until the Senate was created in 1917 under the Jones-Shafroth Act, creating a bicameral legislature.

He resigned from the Saskatchewan legislature shortly after his re-election in the 1917 election in order to accept an appointment to the Canadian Senate by Sir Robert Borden.

The English-language state song of New Mexico is " O Fair New Mexico ", adopted by the state legislature in 1917.

They formed what still stands as the largest opposition caucus in Alberta history with the exception of 1917, when the government majority was smaller but there were far fewer seats in the legislature.

The new legislature met for the first time on March 1, 1917.

It was adopted as the state song by an act of the New Mexico legislature, approved on March 14, 1917, as signed by Governor Washington E. Lindsey.

Boivin, a Franco-Manitoban, was first elected to the Manitoba legislature for the constituency of Iberville in a by-election held on November 1, 1917.

An active member of the Republican Party, he was elected by the state legislature as a U. S. Senator from Delaware, serving most of two terms ( June 13, 1906 to March 4, 1917 ).

Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

Jefferson likely moved to Deep Ellum in a more permanent fashion by 1917, where he met Aaron Thibeaux Walker, also known as T-Bone Walker.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

The pair also formed a romantic relationship that lasted into 1917.

His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).

For seven years he also published the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona, New York City, Zurich, and Paris from 1917 through 1924.

Maurice Tourneur was also highly ranked for the pictorial beauties of his films, together with the subtlety of his handling of fantasy, while at the same time he was capable of getting greater naturalism from his actors at appropriate moments, as in A Girl's Folly ( 1917 ).

By 1917 Chaplin was also introducing more dramatic plot into his films, and mixing the comedy with sentiment.

In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.

It was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who read it a few years before it was published in 1917.

Chernyi was also Secretary of the Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups, which was formed in March 1917.

She was also granted a knighthood in 1917, when the Order of the British Empire was created ( it was the first order explicitly open to women ).

The German Navy's U-boats were also instrumental in the sinking of the civilian passenger liner the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, which was one of the main events that led to the USA joining the war two years later in 1917.

In spring 1917, he was also elected to command the students ' volunteer army, set up to defend the school from potential attack after two warlords began fighting one another in Hunan.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

* USS New England ( ID-1222 ), also SP-1222, a tug in commission from 1917 to 1919

The October Revolution (), also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (), Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power leading to a political revolution, It was a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 ( and similar, albeit less successful, revolutions in many other European countries ) brought communism-and in particular the political theory of Leninism, but also on a smaller level Luxemburgism ( gradually )-on the world stage.

The Gregorian Calendar was instituted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Romania accepted it in 1919 under king Ferdinand of Romania ( 1 November 1919 became 14 November 1919 ), Turkey in 1923 under Ataturk, and the last Orthodox country to accept the calendar was Greece also in 1923.

* 1916 to 1927 in Norway ( fortified wine and beer also prohibited from 1917 to 1923 )

In 1916, Norway prohibited distilled beverages, and in 1917 the prohibition was extended to also include fortified wine and beer.

For example, during the Aceh War the Acehnese Klewangs, a sword similar to the machete, proved very effective in close quarters combat with Dutch troops, leading the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to adopt a heavy cutlass, also called klewang ( very similar in appearance to the US Navy Model 1917 Cutlass ) to counter it.

* Critics of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.

Many compositions were created and sung in improvisation, where the samba Pelo Telefone ( from Donga and Mauro de Almeida ), samba for which there were also many other versions, but to come to the history of samba, Pelo Telefon was the first person to record Samba in 1917