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1921 and encouraged
President Harding convened the Conference of Unemployment in 1921, headed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, that proactively advocated stimulating the economy with local public work projects and encouraged businesses to apply shared work programs.
In 1921, the Historical Committee of the Wenham Village Improvement Society encouraged the society to buy the 17th-century Claflin-Richards house at the center of town.
At the 1920 and 1921 meetings of the Association of American Law Schools, proposals which Lewis encouraged urged the creation of an " institute of law " to elucidate the progress of the common law.
In March 1921, he was sent to Germany to advise the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) and encouraged the KPD to follow the " Theory of the Offensive " as supported by Zinoviev and other Kunerists.
From 1921 onwards he was in charge of the bird department of the Berlin Zoological Museum, and encouraged a number of young German scientists, including Ernst Mayr and Bernhard Rensch.
The Roerichs were a Russian couple who visited Santa Fe in 1921 and encouraged the five painters to band together to support their artistic expressions.
A guide to the City Churches published in 1917 reverted to the view that St Magnus was dedicated to a martyr of the third century, but the discovery of St Magnus of Orkney's relics in 1919 renewed interest in a Scandinavian patron and this connection was encouraged by the Rector who arrived in 1921.

1921 and planned
Long planned and built a complete city in 1921 that could support a population of up to 50, 000 and provide labor for the mills as well as attracting other industries.
In 1921, it was planned to become a Special Administrative Region ( 瓊崖特別行政區 ); in 1944, it became Hainan Special Administrative Region with 16 counties containing the South China Sea Islands.
Wilson attended a special conference ( 29 December ) along with Macready, Tudor and John Anderson ( Head of the Civil Service in Dublin ) at which they all advised that no truce should be allowed for elections to the planned Dublin Parliament, and that at least four months ( Wilson thought six ) months of martial law would be required to restore order – the date for the elections was therefore set for May 1921.
Although attempts to settle the area were made as early as 1921, the city was founded only in November 1962 as one of the last two development towns to be established, and the first planned city in Israel.
His followers planned to resign from the Iraq Levies ( a formidable and highly capable force, under the command of the British, that had served British interests putting down Kurdish and Arab rebellions against Britain since 1921 ), and to re-group as a militia and concentrate in the north, creating a de facto Assyrian enclave, although this never happened as it was prevented by the British.
A founding convention was planned to be held in Moscow in July 1921 and an American delegation was gathered, including members of the American Communist Parties and the Industrial Workers of the World.
* Aero Car ( 1921 automobile ), a planned American automobile
Noted Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott was the architect for both buildings which were part of the original Temple Terrace Estates, one of the first Mediterranean Revival golf course planned communities in the United States ( 1921 ).
Hooper became a national figure in labor-management arbitration when he worked to halt a railroad strike planned for October 30, 1921.
The batteries were planned in World War I but only commissioned in 1921, and after a change of heart scrapped in 1926.
In 1921 the tower was purchased for $ 14, 500 by the Union Oil Company, which planned to tear it down and put a gas station in its place.
Tudor attended a special conference ( 29 December ) along with Wilson, Macready and John Anderson ( Head of the Civil Service in Dublin ) at which they all advised that no truce should be allowed for elections to the planned Dublin Parliament, and that at least four months months of martial law would be required to restore order – the date for the elections was therefore set for May 1921.

1921 and expedition
In 1913, Alfred Tremblay, a French-Canadian prospector with Captain Joseph Bernier ’ s expedition to Pond Inlet, extended his mineral exploration overland to Igloolik, and in 1921 a member of Knud Rasmussen's Fifth Thule Expedition visited the island.
Breashears has retraced the steps of Mallory's 1921 expedition, revealing a significant loss of ice mass across the West, Main and East Rongbuk Glaciers.
At 1919 – 1921 there was Aunus expedition where a group of Finnish volunteers occupied parts of East Karelia ( Aunus in Finnish, Olonets Karelia in Russian ).
The Johnsons ' first Africa expedition, from 1921 to 1922, resulted in their feature film Trailing Wild African Animals ( 1923 ).
Sverdrup's fourth and last expedition in Arctic Siberian waters was in 1921, when, from the bridge of the Soviet Icebreaker Lenin, he commanded a convoy of five cargo ships on an experimental run through the Kara Sea to the mouths of the Ob and Yenisei.
In 1921, eager to learn about gorillas to determine if killing them for museum dioramas was justified, Akeley led an expedition to Mt.
One of the members of his 1921 expedition was six-year-old Alice Hastings Bradley, who later wrote science fiction under the name James Tiptree, Jr ..
The American sponsors agreed to withdraw, subject to an NGS condition that the Society could reclaim its rights to the expedition if Stefansson failed to depart by June 1913 — a narrow deadline which led to hurried preparations for the journey north, although Stefansson maintained in his 1921 account that " forethought appeared to have anticipated every eventuality ".
In 1921 he was a part of Ernest Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition.
The Republic of the Rif led by the guerrilla leader Abd El-Krim was a breakaway state that existed in the Rif region from 1921 to 1926, when it was dissolved by joint expedition of the Spanish Army of Africa and French forces during the Rif War.
In 1921, while still an undergraduate, he was assistant to Julian Huxley on an expedition to Spitsbergen.
Landon was private secretary to the Governor of New South Wales 1900 ; in 1903 he was special correspondent of the Daily Mail at the Delhi Durbar, in China, in Japan and in Siberia ; in 1903 – 1904 he was special correspondent of The Times on the British military expedition to Lhasa, Tibet ; in 1905 – 1906 he was special correspondent of The Times for the Prince of Wales ' visit to India ; and after that he was in Persia, India, and Nepal, 1908 ; Russian Turkestan 1909 ; Egypt and Sudan 1910 ; on the North Eastern Frontier of India and at the Delhi Durbar, 1911 ; in Mesopotamia and Syria, 1912 ; in Scandinavia and behind the British and French lines in 1914-1915 ; behind the Italian lines and to the Vatican in 1917 ( the war and Vatican visits with Kipling ); at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; in Constantinople, 1920 ; in India, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine 1921 ; on the Prince of Wales ' tour of India and Japan, 1921-1922 ; in China and North America 1922 ; at the Peace Conference in Lausanne, 1923 ; in China, Nepal and Egypt 1924 ; and in China in 1925 ( source except where noted: Who Was Who ).
Harkin ’ s personal archival papers say little about his involvement with the national parks ; they focus almost entirely on his notes and correspondence on Vilhjalmur Stefansson ’ s expedition to the Arctic in 1921.
A follow-up expedition starting in June 1921 and led by J. H. G.

1921 and for
When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??
Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
The crash of his ambitious Lawson L-4 " Midnight Liner " during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921, ended his best chance for commercial aviation success.
The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division ( North ); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965.
In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.
This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.
“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.
Following its September 1921 release, Chaplin chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade.
Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).
There is no economic activity ( except for a significant but as yet unquantified charter fishing and diving industry ), and only a staff of three or four people to run the meteorological station on Willis Island ( South Islet ), established in 1921.
The first industrial station for the transformation of urban organic materials into compost was set up in Wels / Austria in the year 1921.
In 1921 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic ( a branch of the Cheka ) numbered 200, 000.
In 1921, Johnson broke Young's career record for strikeouts.
While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.
The censuses covered only the southern part of the country except for the 1952 census which was country wide, and the censuses before 1921 were based on administrative estimates rather than on an actual enumeration.
During the 10th Party Congress ( March 1921 ) Lenin condemned the Workers Opposition, a faction within the Communist Party, for deviating from communism and accused Trotsky of factionalism.
Renamed the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1921, it remains the oldest extant women's peace organization.
By 1921, most of the original players moved to Paris where Dada experienced its last major incarnation ( see Neo-Dada for later activity ).
In 1919, Vertov compiled newsreel footage for his documentary Anniversary of the Revolution ; in 1921 he compiled History of the Civil War.
Particularly important for establishing him in the field was his seminal book Language ( 1921 ), which was a layman's introduction to the discipline of linguistics as Sapir envisioned it.
Three International Eugenics Conferences presented a global venue for eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York.

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