General Motors purchased a majority stake in 1925 and changed its name to the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company.

Historically, the President of Weimar Germany was popularly elected in 1925 and 1932 by a two-round system that in the second round allowed any candidate to run and did not require an absolute majority.

King called an election in 1925, in which the Conservatives won the most seats, but not a majority in the House of Commons.

By 1925, Stewart-Warner odometers and trip meters were standard equipment on the vast majority of automobiles and motorcycles manufactured in the United States.

In 1925, coins in denominations of 1, 5, 10 centavos, ¼, ½ and 1 quetzal were introduced, although the majority of the 1 quetzal coins were withdrawn from circulation and melted.

A majority of the university's 250 buildings, most of which were built between 1925 and 1940, occupy a 650-acre ( 2. 6 km² ) plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River.

In any case, despite his resignations, the intergovernmental boundary deal was approved by a Dáil vote of 71 – 20 on 10 December 1925, and MacNeill is listed as voting with the majority in favour.

As a result of Kettering's close relationship with both GM and Flxible, many GM parts were used in the production of Flxible vehicles, particularly prior to GM's 1943 purchase of Yellow Coach ( a competing bus manufacturer, of which GM had been a majority owner since 1925 ).

In 1922 Grotewohl with the majority of the USPD members joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and from 1925 was a member of the Reichstag parliament.

* June 2-Saskatchewan general election, 1925: Charles Dunning's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority

In 1925 the Comintern, through its representative Sergei Gusev, ordered the majority Foster faction to surrender control to Ruthenberg's faction ; Foster complied.

In a reversal of the events of 1925, a Comintern delegation sent to the United States demanded that Lovestone resign as party secretary, in favor of his archrival Foster, despite the fact that Lovestone enjoyed the support of the vast majority of the American party's membership.

Because no candidate did obtain an absolute majority, the election required a further vote by the National Congress of Chile in which Allende was overwhelmingly confirmed as the winner, in which the Christian Democrats voted in favor of Allende, and thus he assumed the presidency accordance with the Chilean Constitution of 1925.

* Seats short of a majority 1925: 23.

Forming an alliance with a smaller faction led by James P. Cannon, Foster was able to control the majority of the party's leadership in 1923 and again in 1925.

* Canada: United Church of Canada, the 1925 union of Congregationalist, Methodist, and a majority of Presbyterian churches ( including Bermuda )

* March 29, 1925 First round of presidential elections: no candidate receives absolute majority.

* Ignazio Panzavecchia ( 1855 – 1925 ), priest and politician who declined the position of Prime Minister of Malta in 1921 after his party won a majority.

The State of Aleppo ( 1920 – 1925 ) ( French: État d ' Alep ) ( Arabic: دولة حلب ‎) included a majority of Sunni Muslims.

This was changed in 1925 to a majority of the Legislature, drastically curtailing the number of recalls ; still, only 25 ( about 10 percent ) petition-signers are required to force a motion to be voted on by the floor.

Clear assented to the majority report of the Commission, which favoured easing the ( widely disregarded ) restrictions on opening hours of public houses introduced in 1925, although the Catholic hierarchy subsequently opposed the resulting Act.

After the majority of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany joined the Communist Party of Germany at the end of 1920, the Independents ' Socialist Workers Youth group followed suit and merged with the Communist Party's youth organization and then in 1925, became known as the Young Communists League.

The company issued stock in 1898, and a majority of the shares were acquired by Schering in 1925.

( Victoria University Archives ) With the pro-union support of the majority of Presbyterian congregations now guaranteed, The United Church of Canada was inaugurated at a large worship service at Toronto's Mutual Street Arena on June 10, 1925.

Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.

It remained in force for ten years and has been renewed at five-year intervals since 1925.

* 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.

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.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

In 1925, the school established a department of geology and hired William Bennett Munro, then chairman of the division of History, Government, and Economics at Harvard University, to create a division of humanities and social sciences at Caltech.

He became a professor at the University of Rome in 1925.

" On Conner's recommendation, in 1925 – 26 he attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he graduated first in a class of 245 officers.

In October 1925, Thomas enrolled at Swansea Grammar School for boys, in Mount Pleasant, where his father taught English.

From January 1925 to the autumn of 1926, he stayed at the University of Florence.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

In the 1920s, Wray landed a major role in the silent film The Coast Patrol ( 1925 ), as well as uncredited bit parts at the Hal Roach Studios.

The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.

Young George H. W. Bush taking his first steps at his grandfather's house in Kennebunkport, Maine | Kennebunkport, Maine, c. 1925

But in 1925 when Thalberg hesitated to follow through on his promise, Hawks broke his contract at MGM.

In October 1925 Sol Wurtzel, William Fox's studio superintendent at the Fox Film Corporation, invited Hawks to join his company with the promise of letting Hawks direct.

The government of the United States set up the National Helium Reserve in 1925 at Amarillo, Texas, with the goal of supplying military airships in time of war and commercial airships in peacetime.

He was habilitated at Kiel in 1920, and in 1925 became Extraordinarius of psychiatry and neurology.

Notable stagings in London and New York include Barrymore's 1925 production at the Haymarket ; it influenced subsequent performances by John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier.

On finishing school in 1925, Georges worked at the Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siècle under editor and Catholic priest, Norbert Wallez.

In 1925 Edgerton received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he became a member of Acacia Fraternity.