* 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.

In late 1917 while in charge of training at Ft. Oglethorpe in Georgia, Mamie had their first son.

In November, 1917, one of his outstanding students and later a noted philosophy professor in his own right, Adolf Reinach, was killed in the war while serving in Flanders.

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 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

The result of this hardening of positions was that in late 1917 and early 1918, moderate, peaceful men and women were forced to stand aside while the men with rifles stepped forward to take charge.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

Hubbard's father rejoined in the Navy in April 1917, during World War I, while his mother May worked as a clerk for the state government.

Beria was educated at a technical school in Sukhumi and joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 while a student in the Baku Polytechnicum ( now known as the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy ).

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

As these were independents, the quality of accommodation varied widely from one lodge to another ; while a minority of these properties were inspected or rated by automobile associations ( AAA and CAA, in addition to providing maps to member motorists, have published tour books or directories of restaurants and rooms since 1917 ), no consistent standard stood behind the " sanitized for your protection " banner.

Eventually, Zukor shed most of his early partners ; the Frohman brothers, Hodkinson and Goldwyn were out by 1917 while Lasky hung on until 1932, when, blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the Depression years, he too was tossed out.

The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U. S. military.

The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U. S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed.

Paul IV's 1559 bull, Cum ex apostolatus officio, stipulated that a heretic cannot be elected pope, while Canon 188. 4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law provides that a cleric who publicly defects from the Catholic faith automatically loses any office he had held in the Church.

In 1917, UIU male students joined the armed forces during World War I, while women students organized American Red Cross classes on campus ; the UIU gym became a barracks, and the athletic field was the scene of military drills.

In 1917, Ernest Hartley was transferred to Bangalore, while Gertrude and Vivian stayed in Ootacamund.

King, while writing Industry and Humanity, 1917.

The attack on Aqaba ( one of the more stirring and memorable scenes in the film with a spectacular pan shot of dust rising up from behind the charging Arabs while Turkish cannons are aimed harmlessly out to sea ) was reconstructed in a dried river bed in southern Spain ; it consisted of over 300 buildings and was meticulously based on the town's appearance in 1917.

The population grew only by 10 % from 1917 to 1939, while the population right outside the market town ’ s borders grew significantly.

After their initial recording for Victor, they recorded for Columbia ( after the first Victor session, not before as has sometimes been said ) and Aeolian-Vocalion in 1917, and returned to make more sides for Victor the following year, while enjoying continued popularity in New York.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

The 1917 Code of Canon Law reserved the term " nun " ( Latin: monialis ) for women religious who took solemn vows or who, while being allowed in some places to take simple vows, belonged to institutes whose vows were normally solemn.

In 1917, the British defeated Ottoman Turkish forces and took control of Palestine, while France took control of Syria.

Peck was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917, through his Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe.

* George W. Clarke, governor of Iowa, 1913 – 1917

* Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, ( 1853 – 1937 ) 31 mayor of Chicago ( 1905 – 1907 ); governor of Illinois ( 1913 – 1917 ) was born in Watertown.

* Walter Evans Edge ( 1873 – 1956 ), served as a United States Senator representing New Jersey from 1919 to 1929, and was twice the Governor of New Jersey, from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1944 to 1947, serving as governor during both World War I and World War II.

Hiram Warren Johnson ( September 2, 1866August 6, 1945 ) was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California ; he served as the 23rd governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.

Ferris was elected Governor of Michigan in 1912, becoming the first Democratic governor of that state in twenty years, and served from 1913 – 1917.

From 1917 on, Mackensen was the military governor of the parts of Romania ( mainly Wallachia ) controlled by the Central Powers.

Over the ensuing years he continued to serve the government in both a legal capacity – supreme state court judge in Sonora ; legal advisor to the Ministry of War – and in elective office: he was elected to Congress in 1917, 1921, and 1923, and he served as governor of his native Tamaulipas on two occasions ( 1920 and 1925 ).

A Republican, he was twice the Governor of New Jersey, from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1944 to 1947, serving as governor during both World War I and World War II.

In 1917, he was initially declared the governor of Arizona in a disputed gubernatorial election but the decision was later overturned by the courts, who awarded the election to George W. P.

Hunt filed suit in the Arizona Superior Court on January 25, 1917, and on January 27, the court declared Campbell de facto governor.

Hunt initially refused to leave office, but a January 27, 1917, ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court naming Campbell the de facto governor forced him to surrender his office.

The former governor maintained his fights in the court, and on December 22, 1917, was declared the winner of the 1916 election by a total of 43 votes.

The governor of Utah had appointed Roberts a chaplain in the Utah National Guard ; and in 1917, when the United States declared war on Germany, Roberts volunteered to serve as a U. S. Army chaplain.

Named for former Texas governor, Civil War general Lawrence Sullivan Ross, it was founded in 1917 as Sul Ross Normal College and was made a university in 1969.

Starting in 1917 as a member of the municipal council of Capiz, he became the youngest governor of his province and served in this capacity from 1919 to 1922.

A three-term member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.

Barceló and a group of party delegates traveled to Washington to seek changes in the Jones Act of 1917, by presenting their views that the economic situation in Puerto Rico was a good one and that Puerto Ricans were capable of electing their own governor.

Catts served as governor from January 2, 1917 to January 4, 1921.

Hobby was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1914 and after James Edward Ferguson was removed from office in 1917, he became the youngest governor in the history of the state up to that point.

He was mayor of Lakeland, Florida, from 1899 to 1903, member of the Florida House of Representatives in 1902, state Senator from 1904 to 1908 ( serving as Senate president in 1905 ), Florida Attorney General from 1909 to 1913, and after his term as governor of Florida ( January 7, 1913 to January 2, 1917 ), a United States Senator from March 4, 1917 until his death on May 8, 1936 in Washington, D. C.

Njoya also ordered the building of a palace at Foumban in 1917, which he modeled after that of the German governor.

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace " Ma " Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James E. Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.