Edith Bolling Wilson has been referred to as " The Secret President " and " The First Woman President " because she was seen as assuming many governmental duties after President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke in 1919.

* 1919 – Secret Service, Paramount Pictures, directed by Hugh Ford with Robert Warwick in Gillette's role of Captain Thorne and Shirley Mason as the female lead.

* The Secret Shame of the Kaiser ( 1919 )

# The Island of Thirty Coffins aka The Secret of Sarek ( L ’ Île aux trente cercueils, 1919 ) ( AKA: The Secret of Sarek )

The Councillors involved, Dennis Thomas and George Knight, were prosecuted under the Secret Commissions Prohibition Act 1919 ( NSW ) for receiving bribes from a development company to influence planning and development decisions, and both received gaol sentences.

Soviet actor Mikheil Gelovani depicted Joseph Stalin in 12 films made during the leader's lifetime-among them The Great Dawn ( 1938 ), Lenin in 1918 ( 1939 ), The Vow ( 1946 ), The Fall of Berlin ( 1950 ) and The Unforgettable Year 1919 ( 1952 )-which reflected his cult of personality ; those films were either banned or had the scenes featuring Stalin removed after the 1956 Secret Speech.

He drew on this experience for The Dark Forest ( 1916 ) and The Secret City ( 1919 ).

The Secret City, 1919 ;

His many translations include A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems ( 1918 ), Japanese Poetry: The Uta ( 1919 ), The No Plays of Japan ( 1921 ), The Tale of Genji ( published in 6 volumes from 1921-33 ), The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon ( 1928 ), The Kutune Shirka ( 1951 ), Monkey ( 1942, an abridged version of Journey to the West ), The Poetry and Career of Li Po ( 1959 ) and The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces ( 1964 ).

Between 1919 and 1921, he was Director of British Naval Intelligence, and helped to set up the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS, commonly MI6 ) before the Second World War.

* The Black Secret ( 1919 )

* The Black Secret ( 1919 )

He was seconded to the Foreign Office in 1919 where he was head of the Secret Intelligence Service's Section V, dealing with counter-Bolshevism in the mid 1920s, and was Head of the Industrial Intelligence Centre of the Committee of Imperial Defence from 1929 to 1939, responsible for providing intelligence on the plans and capabilities for manufacturing munitions in other countries.

* The Secret Garden ( 1919 )

** The Secret Garden ( 1919 film ) a movie directed by Gustav von Seyffertitz and starring Lila Lee, Spottiswoode Aitken and Paul Willis

* Distinguished Service Medal ( United States ) 16 September 1919.

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

Wall plaque marking the site in 1919, where the Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army was founded.

* March 13 – Jane Delano, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service ( d. 1919 )

* Council for International Service ( 1919 – 1927 ), an organization of Quakers based in Britain

The United States Military Aircraft Designation System was first designed in 1919 when the US Army's Aeronautical Division became the United States Army Air Service.

Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is the oldest international relations faculty in the United States, founded in 1919.

As a result, in 1919, the Mounted Service School as it was known since 1907 and which had ceased to function during the war, was redesignated as the United States Army Cavalry School.

A new 2d Aero Squadron returned in December 1919, and a permanent military aviation presence was established with the organization on 20 March 1920 of the 1st Observation Group of the United States Army's Air Service at Fort Stotsenburg, consisting of the 2nd Squadron on Corregidor and the 3rd Squadron at Fort Stotsenburg.

Eddie Rickenbacker, United States Army Air Service, c. 1919

Returning to the United States in January 1919, it had been widely expected throughout the Air Service that Mitchell would receive the post-war assignment of Director of Air Service.

Mitchell received appointment on February 28, 1919, as Director of Military Aeronautics, to head the flying component of the Air Service, but that office was in name only as it was a wartime agency that would expire six months after the signing of a peace treaty.

Menoher instituted a reorganization of the Air Service based on the divisional system of the AEF, eliminating the DMA as an organization, and Mitchell was assigned as Third Assistant Executive, in charge of the Training and Operations Group, Office of Director of Air Service ( ODAS ), in April 1919.

Early in 1919, Guderian was assigned to serve on the staff of the central command of the Eastern Frontier Guard Service.

For his services, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) in June 1917, made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) in December 1919, was awarded the French Légion d ' honneur in the grade of Chevalier, and was Mentioned in Despatches five times.

Arnold was sent to Rockwell Field on January 10, 1919, as District Supervisor, Western District of the Air Service, to oversee the demobilization of 8, 000 airmen and surplus aircraft.

In Service for the Girls of the World ', Poster, 1919

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) in June 1917, a bar to the DSO in September 1917 and a second bar in January 1919.

Rodd left the Diplomatic Service in 1919 but nonetheless served on the mission to Egypt in 1920 with Lord Milner and was British delegate to the League of Nations from 1921 to 1923.

In 1919, the company expanded beyond Seattle and changed its name to United Parcel Service.

The New Zealand Forest Service was originally established in 1919 as the State Forest Service.

In 1919 – 1952 the Orgburo was also elected in the same manner as the Politburo and the Secretariat by the plenums of the Central Committee.

Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919 that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations and that the United States consumed 470, 000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17, 000 pounds in both France and Germany.

During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as Director of Shell-filling ( 1917 – 1919 ) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee.

In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.

He also became the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern when it was created in March 1919.

He served as a clerk of the Judicial Committee for the 1919 Session of the California State Assembly ( 1919 – 1920 ), and as the deputy city attorney of Oakland ( 1920 – 25 ).

At 11: 00 a. m. on June 26, 1919, the Central Strike Committee officially called off the strike and the strikers returned to work.

In 1919, the Netherlands Olympic Committee abandoned the proposal of Amsterdam in favour of their support of the nomination of Antwerp as host city for the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Starting in September 1919, with the Government, now led by David Lloyd George, committed under all circumstances to implementing Home Rule, the British cabinet's Committee for Ireland, under the chairmanship of former Ulster Unionist Party leader Walter Long, pushed for a radical new idea.

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ( 1919 – 1924 ), Lodge led the successful fight against American participation in the League of Nations, which had been proposed by President Wilson at the close of World War I.

The Indian freedom movement struggle also grew in momentum in Thrissur after a Committee was formed in 1919 of the Indian National Congress.

When Britain's Government Committee on Intelligence decided to slash Kell's budget and staff and subordinate MI5 under a new Home Office Civil Intelligence Directorate led by Special Branch's Sir Basil Thomson in January 1919, the powerful MI5 / Special Branch partnership that admirably managed counterintelligence and subversives during the war was suddenly thrown into disarray.

In 1919, the General Assembly created a Church and Nation Committee, which in 2005 became the Church and Society Council.

Younghusband was elected President of the Royal Geographical Society in 1919, and two years later became Chairman of the Mount Everest Committee which was set up to coordinate the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest.

Fry was its co-editor between 1909 and 1919 ( first with Lionel Cust, then with Cust and More Adey ) but his influence on the Burlington Magazine continued until his death: Fry was in the Consultative Committee of the Burlington since its beginnings and when he left the editorship, following a dispute with Cust and Adey regarding the editorial policy on modern art, he was able to use his influence on the Committee to choose the successor he considered appropriate, Robert Rattray Tatlock.

In September 1919, a grenade attack at a meeting of the Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik Party was used as a pretext for mass arrests of anarchists all over Russia by Bolshevik Red Army forces and the Cheka.

Rutherford served on the Loan Advisory Committee of the Soldier Settlement Board after the war, was President of the Alberta Historical Society ( which had been created by his government ) from 1919 until his death, was elected President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Alberta in 1922, and spent the last years of his life as honorary president of the Canadian Authors Association.

In 1921, he was elected to the Congress Working Committee and served as the General Secretary of the party before making his first major breakthrough as a leader during the 1922 Indian National Congress session at Gaya when he strongly opposed collaboration with the colonial administration and participation in the diarchial legislatures established by the Government of India Act 1919.

While in the Senate, Nelson was involved in the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, the passage of the Nelson Bankruptcy Act in 1898, and serving on the Overman Committee from 1918 to 1919.