Hayakawa had created his own production company in 1918.

This typecasting was the reason Hayakawa set up his own production company in 1918 around the height of his US fame.

* Congo-Brazzaville ( variously named, often Middle Congo ) had a single High commissioner, a bit after it was granted on 28 November 1958 autonomy ( as Republic of Congo ), 7 January 1959 – 15 August 1960: Guy Noël Georgy ( b. 1918 – d. 2003 ) after many Lieutenant governors since 11 December 1888 ( under the governor-general of AEF, except the several cases when he governed the French Congo personally ); afterwards it was an independent republic

On 31 October 1918, the council of state agreed upon the colours of the republic ( red-white-red ) as well as the new coat of arms composed personally by chancellor Karl Renner.

In 1918, William C. Durant, a founder of General Motors, personally invested in the company and in 1919, it adopted the name Frigidaire.

On 23 March 1918 west of St. Quentin's Canal and north of Tergnier, France, Lieutenant Colonel Bushell personally led C Company of his battalion, who were cooperating with an Allied regiment in a counterattack.

In 1918 while being the Narkom of the People's Education, he personally by Lenin was offered a position of a representative of the Soviet Ukrainian People's Republic in Russian SFSR.

In October 1918, Romania joined the war again and by the end of the war, the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires had disintegrated ; governing bodies created by the Romanians of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina chose union with the Kingdom of Romania, resulting in Greater Romania.

Also in 1916, the Fageol Motor Company chose East Oakland for their first factory, manufacturing farming tractors from 1918 to 1923.

When, in January 1919, Irish republican MPs elected in the 1918 General Election assembled to form the First Dáil and issue a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, they chose not to seek to use the old Parliament House on College Green.

In 1918 after the First World War a referendum was held in Büsingen in which 96 % of voters chose to become part of Switzerland.

In October 1930 Haitians chose a national assembly for the first time since 1918.

Britain's Royal Flying Corps chose Omega watches in 1917 as its official timekeepers for its combat units, as did the American army in 1918.

In May 1918, Georgia – newly independent from Russia – chose the equestrian depiction of Tetri Giorgi as a centerpiece of its coat of arms.

Adolf Hitler deliberately chose Compiègne Forest as the site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany that signaled the end of World War I with Germany's surrender.

There was a prisoner of war camp here in World War I and World War II, a notable prisoner held from 1918 to 1919 was then U-boat captain Karl Dönitz, whom Hitler later chose as his successor to the position of Führer, a position which Dönitz fulfilled in the last days of the Second World War.

Although she passed the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford, in 1917, she chose to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ( WAAC ) in early 1918, but soon after arriving to serve in France, the First World War came to an end and she returned home.

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

" It took four months to produce, eventually released in October 1918 at 45 minutes long, and was highly successful.

He was a highly decorated soldier and was briefly taken prisoner by the Italians as a prisoner of war in 1918.

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

For example, the flags of Venezuela, of Colombia, and of Ecuador all use variants of the flag of Great Colombia, the country they composed upon their independence from Spain, created by the Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda ; and the flags of Egypt, of Iraq, of Syria, and of Yemen are all highly similar variants of the flag of the Arab revolt of 1916 – 1918.

Gerwarth argues that the constructed memory of Bismarck played a central role as an anti-democratic myth in the highly ideological battle over the past which raged between 1918 and 1933.

At the time of Richthofen's death the front was in a highly fluid state, following the initial success of the German offensive of March – April 1918.

The first volume was highly praised by reviewers, and received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.

In the meantime, Piłsudski had correctly predicted that the war would ruin all three of the partitioners, a conclusion most people thought highly unlikely before 1918.

After the fall of the Habsburg Empire, the years 1918 to 1920 were highly turbulent, and several hard-to-trace minor changes took place.

In 1918, however, he helped to establish the New Plymouth branch of the modern New Zealand Labour Party and he became highly active.

His factories mass production in 1918 of the revolutionary and highly effective Renault FT-17 tank, which he had personnally designed with Rodolphe Ernst-Metzmaier, was perhaps Renault's most significant contribution during that period.

The work was highly praised by figures such as Bertolt Brecht, and critic Gabriele Sander has described November 1918 as representing the culmination of Döblin's work in the genre of the historical novel.

He was highly regarded by the men he commanded and was only replaced in 1918 when politics dictated that all Australian Imperial Force divisions should be commanded by Australians.

* July – November 1918: 1st Samara Infantry Division, transformed into 24th Rifle Division that took over Simbirsk ( Ulyanovsk ) and was later known as " Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron Division " ( Georgy Zhukov served under his command and highly praised him later in his memoirs ).

The fourth Brătianu cabinet adopted the constitution of 1923, a document which confirmed universal suffrage and minority rights as first defined by the laws of 1918 ; because of the highly centralised model it favored, it drew suspicion from the Transylvanian politicians that it served the goal of a National Liberal-dominated Old Kingdom ( especially after the constitution was approved of through a simple vote in Parliament ).

Paul Marvin Rudolph ( October 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky – August 8, 1997 in New York, New York ) was an American architect and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture for six years, known for use of concrete and highly complex floor plans.

Roosevelt was popular enough to seriously contest the 1920 Republican nomination, but his health was broken by 1918, because of the lingering malaria.

Waves of popular violence accompanied liberation in November and December 1918 and the government responded through the judiciary punishment of collaboration with the enemy conducted between 1919 and 1921, mainly by military and civil tribunals.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

The book was a popular success, selling just over 17, 000 copies — though this was somewhat lower than the total for the previous book, The Emerald City of Oz, and marked the start of a trend in declining sales for the Oz books that would not reverse until The Tin Woodman of Oz in 1918.

Also popular was Zaner-Bloser Script, introduced by Charles Paxton Zaner ( 15 February 1864 – 1 December 1918 ) and Elmer Ward Bloser ( 6 November 1865 – 1929 ) of the Zanerian Business College.

After a start as a classical violinist and violist, he led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became popular locally in San Francisco, California in 1918.

In 1971 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( January 12, 1918 – February 5, 2008 ) introduced Transcendental Meditation ( also known as TM ) at a former popular resort called Hobergs.

Following the railroad, sheep ranching became more popular, reaching its peak in 1918, when Cokeville was informally called the " Sheep Capital of the World ".

During the early twentieth century they were popular in Russia with re-enactments of the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) ( 1906 ), the Battle of Borodino ( 1812 ) in St Petersburg and the Taking of Azov ( 1696 ) in Voronezh in 1918.

Her photograph appeared on an edition of the sheet music for the popular number " Ev ' rybody Shimmies Now " in 1918.

* Geoffrey O ' Hara-early 20th century composer, singer and music professor who was the writer of such popular songs as the 1918 hit K-K-K-Katy

Isobel, Lady Barnett ( 30 June 1918 – 20 October 1980 ) popularly known as Lady Isobel Barnett, was a British radio and television personality, popular during the 1950s and 1960s.

Joe Williams ( born Joseph Goreed ; December 12, 1918 – March 29, 1999 ) was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.

These expeditions formed the basis for a large quantity of writing for both popular and academic audiences, including an account of his pheasant expedition titled A Monograph of the Pheasants and published in four volumes from 1918 to 1922.

In a related note, many popular sources quote some more or less random date between October 1918 and March 1919 as the beginning of Seitz ' tenure.

Only after the writer's death in 1918 did his publisher reveal Adams's authorship although, upon publication, the novel had immediately become popular.

The most popular modern singers of maqam are Rachid Al-Qundarchi ( 1887 – 1945 ), Youssouf Omar ( 1918 – 1987 ), Nazem Al-Ghazali ( 1920 – 1963 ), Salim Shibbeth ( born 1908 ), Hassan Chewke ( 1912 – 1962 ), Najim Al-Sheikhli ( 1893 – 1938 ), Mohammed Al-Qubanchi ( 1900 – 1989 ), Hamid Al Saadi ( 1959 -) and Farida Mohammad Ali ( 1963-).

Many years later, in 1918, the composer and trovador Sindo Garay, from Santiago de Cuba, composed a song that he called Mujer Bayamesa ; popular usage shortened the title to La Bayamesa.

In 1918 Granberg had completed the skvader and it has since then been a very popular exhibition item at the museum, which also has the painting on display.

In 1918, he joined the largest piano roll company, QRS, and rapidly became one of their most popular artists-his distinctive yet always fresh performances constantly topping their best-selling lists and are still in production as of 2003-over 80 years since they were produced.

This was due to the perceived failure to have Home Rule implemented when the IPP resisted the partition of Ireland demanded by Ulster Unionists in 1914, 1916 and 1917, but also popular antagonism towards the British authorities created by the execution of most of the leaders of the 1916 rebels and by their botched attempt to introduce Home Rule linked with military conscription in Ireland ( see Conscription Crisis of 1918 ).

Hindustan is the title of a 1918 popular song written by Oliver Wallace & Harold Weeks.

Less wide-ranging were Haskins ' earlier studies of the Normans, Norman Institutions ( 1918 ), which still forms the basis of our understanding of how medieval Normandy functioned, and the more popular book The Normans in European History ( 1915 ).

Felix Arndt ( May 20, 1889October 16, 1918 ) was an American pianist and composer of popular music.

Borah was reelected by the Idaho Legislature in 1912, and four more times by popular vote ( 1918, 1924, 1930 and 1936 ) after an amendment changed the way senators were selected.