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In 1919, after a series of unattributed bombings and attempted assassinations of government officials, and judges ( later traced to militant Galleanist adherents of radical anarchist Luigi Galleani ), the US Department of Justice headed by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, acting under the Sedition Act of 1918, began arresting thousands of foreign-born party members, many of whom the government deported.
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He met Mira Edgerly, a painter of portraits on ivory, shortly after the Armistice, and married her in January, 1919.
The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.
Bacterial genus Escherichia ( for example, Escherichia coli ) was named after him in 1919, eight years after his death.
In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.
Ruth originally entered the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder.
The lycée André-Honnorat de Barcelonnette, originally the collège Saint-Maurice and renamed after the politician André Honnorat in 1919, is located in the town ; Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Carole Merle both studied there.
The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.
Nationalists staged large-scale demonstrations in Cairo in 1919, five years after Egypt had been declared a British protectorate.
Eisenhower, far right, with three unidentified friends, in 1919 four years after graduating from West Point.
The Constitution was rewritten on March 1, 2000 after first being adopted on July 17, 1919.
In 1919, the government of Spain raised the Spanish Foreign Legion and modeled it after the French Foreign Legion.
However, after 1919 titles of nobility were banned by law in Austria, and the " von Hayek " family became simply the Hayek family.
Hence, after 1919, Hayek's legal name became " Friedrich Hayek ", not " Friedrich von Hayek ".
His first wife was, from 1919, confined in the Vienna mental hospital Am Steinhof, and three years after his death was murdered under the Nazi euthanasia laws.
In 1918, he started his own furniture factory, and changed the chair's colors after becoming influenced by the ' De Stijl ' movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect.
In 1919, following a return to activity after a four year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona.
* 1919 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
* 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
In 1919, after the Third Anglo-Afghan War, Amanullah announced Afghanistan's independence from foreign affairs at Eidgah Mosque.
Cultural sites include: the National Museum of Afghanistan, notably displaying an impressive statue of Surya excavated at Khair Khana, the ruined Darul Aman Palace, the tomb of Mughal Emperor Babur at Bagh-e Babur, and Chehlstoon Park, the Minar-i-Istiqlal ( Column of Independence ) built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War, the mausoleum of Timur Shah Durrani, and the imposing Id Gah Mosque ( founded 1893 ).
Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.
By the end of 1919 he'd become famous, after his first one-man exhibition at Der Sturm gallery, June 1919, and the publication that August of the poem An Anna Blume ( usually translated as ' To Anna Flower ', or ' To Eve Blossom '), a dadaist non-sensical love poem.
Radek was arrested after the Spartacist uprising on 12 February 1919 and held in Moabit prison until his release in January 1920.
1919 and series
(« Неужели средневековый застенок ?»); February 22, 1919 Pravda # 12 publishes details of the Vladimir Cheka's tortures, September 21, 1922 Socialist Herald publishes details of series of tortures conducted by the Stavropol Cheka ( hot basement, cold basement, scull measuring etc.
At 9 pm on November 7, 1919, a date chosen because it was the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, agents of the Bureau of Investigation, together with local police, executed a series of well-publicized and violent raids against the Russian Workers in 12 cities.
Reinhart supported Stravinsky further when he funded a series of concerts of his chamber music in 1919: included was a suite from Histoire du soldat arranged for violin, piano and clarinet, which was first performed on 8 November 1919, in Lausanne.
After a series of clashes the monarchists were definitively chased from Oporto on 13 February 1919.
Percy Scholes's Listener's Guide to Music ( originally published in 1919 ) was similarly brought into the new department as the first of a series of books on music appreciation for the listening public.
From 1919 to 1922, MacArthur served as Superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where he attempted a series of reforms.
Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.
In 1919, the Spanish influenza epidemic forced the Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans to cancel their series, marking the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded.
In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the " One Big Union ", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
Yet in the series, younger Erin graduated high school in 1937 and was born in 1919 (" The Career Girl ", 1977 ).
In Britain, a series of race riots broke out in several cities in 1919 between whites and black sailors.
Carter reappeared in subsequent volumes of the series, most prominently in the second ( The Gods of Mars, 1918 ), the third ( The Warlord of Mars, 1919 ), the eighth ( Swords of Mars, 1936 ), the tenth ( Llana of Gathol, 1948 ), and the eleventh and final installment ( John Carter of Mars, published posthumously in 1964 ).
He also edited a series of Health Readers for Schools in 1919.
In 1919, Emanuel became co-owner and editor of Appeal to Reason and began printing in Girard the first of the small paperback books which soon became the foundation for his Little Blue Books series.
He died at the age of 70, on December 29, 1919 in Oxford, during the Spanish influenza epidemic ; his wife, Grace, lived another nine years but succumbed to a series of strokes.
In 1919, he arranged incidental music from Elizabethan sources for As You Like It at Stratford-on-Avon, and conducted a series of Sunday concerts at Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, where he also conducted Pergolesi's opera La serva padrona.
Cendrars ' relationship with painters like Chagall and Léger led him to write a series of revolutionary abstract short poems published in 1919 under the title Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques ( Nineteen elastic poems ), some being tributes to his fellow artists.
Using this device, the Fleischer brothers got a contract with Bray Studio in 1919 to produce their own series called Out of the Inkwell, which featured their first characters, the as yet unnamed Koko the Clown, and Fitz the Dog, who would evolve into Bimbo in 1930.
The Hearst newsreel series Hearst Metrotone News ( 1914 – 1967 ) was released as International Newsreel from January 1919 to July 1929.
Extensive use of this technique was made in Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series for the first five years of the series, which started in 1919 and starred Koko the Clown and Fitz the dog.
A series in 1916 depicted Franz Josef, the Austrian crown, and the coat of arms, and between 1917 and 1919 Emperor Charles I briefly made an appearance on stamps before the republic was established.
From 1919 to 1928, the Memorial Cup Final was a two-game total goals affair between a champion from Eastern Canada and a champion from Western Canada, both of which were determined through a series of playdowns under the auspices of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.
The year 1919 saw the debut of a series of 12-inch Emerson discs, mostly of Classical music, retailing for US $ 1. 25.
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