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In 1923 CNR's second president, Sir Henry Thornton who succeeded David Blyth Hanna ( 1919 – 1922 ), created the CNR Radio Department to provide passengers with entertainment radio reception and give the railway a competitive advantage over its rival, CP.
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The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.
The 11th Party Congress would prove to be the last congress chaired by Lenin, he suffered one stroke in May 1922, was paralysed by a second in December later that year, was removed from public life in March 1923 and died on 21 January 1924.
Spanish individualist anarchism during dictatorship and the second republic ( 1923 – 1938 ) by Xavier Diez PDF in Spanish
Three cases were disposed of during the Court's first session, one during an extraordinary sitting between 8 January and 7 February 1923 ( the Tunis-Morocco Nationality Question ), four during the second ordinary sitting between 15 June 1923 and 15 September 1923 ( Eastern Carelia Question, S. S. Wimbledon Case, German Settlers Question, Acquisition of Polish Nationality Question ) and one during a second extraordinary session from 12 November to 6 December 1923 ( Jaworznia Question ).
They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.
During an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Outer Mongolian Gobi Desert, on 11 August 1923 Peter Kaisen recovered the first Velociraptor fossil known to science: a crushed but complete skull, associated with one of the raptorial second toe claws ( AMNH 6515 ).
A second radio conference was called in 1923, and this time Secretary Hoover was successful at obtaining radio regulation power without legislation passed.
In the second decade of the century, the influences of operetta and the English followers of Sullivan such as Lionel Monckton made themselves felt, in works such as Molinos de viento and El asombro de Damasco ( both by Pablo Luna ), before the Spanish tradition was reasserted in Vives's Doña Francisquita ( 1923 ).
A second major railroad, the Dakar-Niger built from 1906 – 1923, linked Dakar to Bamako and consolidated the city's position at the head of France's West African empire.
She came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.
* HIH Princess Fatma Ulviye Sultan ( Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, 11 September 1892 – İzmir, 25 January 1967 and buried at Çengelköy, Üsküdar, Istanbul, first married to HE Damat Ismail Hakki Okday Beyefendi ( Athens, 28 October 1881-Istanbul, 11 October 1977 ) at the Kurucheshme Palace, Constantinople, on 10 August 1916, without issue ; second marriage to HE Damat Ali Haidar Beyefendi ( Göztepe, Istanbul, 20 September 1889 – Istanbul, 5 February 1962 ) at the Nişantaşı Palace, Nişantaşı, Pera ( today Beyoğlu ), on 1 November 1923, also without issue.
It was the second time the Country Party had effectively vetoed its senior partner's choice for the leadership ; in 1923 Earle Page had demanded that the Nationalist Party, one of the forerunners of the Liberals, remove Billy Hughes as leader before he would even consider coalition talks.
However, it was not until 1923 that the second ' T ' ( for ' telephones ') appeared and the department of P & T became PTT.
In 1923, extracts were broadcast on BBC Radio 1, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the second episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night.
1923 and president
* 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
Drexler was thereafter moved to the purely symbolic position of honorary president, and left the Party in 1923.
Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.
In 1923, Famous Players-Lasky president Jesse Lasky was looking for a new Production Editor in the Story department of his studio, and Thalberg suggested the Ivy-League Hawks.
The history of modern Turkey begins with the foundation of the republic on October 29, 1923, with Mustafa Kemal ( Atatürk ) as its first president.
Furthermore, the United States persuaded El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to join in declaring that, under the 1923 treaty provision, no leader of the recent revolution would be recognized as president for the coming term.
Founded in 1897 as Sport Club Juventus by a group of young Torinese students, among them, who was their first president, Eugenio Canfari, and his brother Enrico, author of the company's historical memory ; they are managed by the industrial Agnelli family since 1923, which constitutes the oldest sporting partnership in Italy, thus making Juventus the first professional club in the country.
The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.
* William Birenbaum ( 1923 – 2010 ), college administrator who served as president of Antioch College
Coolidge was vice-president under Warren G. Harding and became president in 1923 when Harding died in office.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (; ; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001 ) was president of South Vietnam from 1965 – 75.
* William Birenbaum ( 1923 – 2010 ), college administrator who served as president of Antioch College
Elihu Thomson later served as acting president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1923.
It was later renamed Snow Academy in honor of LDS president Lorenzo Snow, and finally to Snow College in 1923.
*** Lee Teng-hui 李登辉 ( 1923 -; ancestral Yongding, Fujian ; born in Sanzhi, New Taipei, Taiwan ), President of the Republic of China, 1988 – 2000 ; First freely elected president in Chinese history
In November 1923 he became president of sales for Stedman Products in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
The paper was a significant participant in the activities of the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union ; Benjamin Schlesinger, a former president of the ILGWU, became the General Manager of the paper in 1923, then returned to the Presidency of the union in 1928.
* William Anthony Granville ( 1864 – 1943 ), American mathematician, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923
The assembly was thoroughly discredited when it elected Cao Kun president after being bribed in 1923.
It was created and named in honour of Charles Brownlow, a former Geelong Football Club footballer ( 1880 – 1891 ) and club secretary ( 1885 – 1923 ), and VFL president ( 1918 – 19 ), who had died in January 1924 after an extended illness.
On 1 January 1923 its new stadium was inaugurated, the " Campo del Mercantil " ( Mercantile Stadium ), in the municipal areas of el " Prado de San Sebastián ", whose transfer for being the playing field of the Sevilla FC was achieved by the president of the club from the Town Hall.
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