Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

In this 1926 photo, William P. McCracken, assistant secretary of commerce for civil aviation, is shown with Secretary Hoover ( center ) and assistant secretary of commerce Walter Drake.

In the work of diverse theorists such as William James ( 1842 – 1910 ), Michel Foucault ( 1926 – 1984 ) and Hayden White, important critiques of hierarchical epistemology are advanced.

Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001 ) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the 10th Prime Minister of Canada ( 1921 – 1926 ; 1926 – 1930 ; 1935 – 1948 )

A reorganization during 1926 led to the retention of the rolling stock group: Metropolitan Carriage wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited, British Lighting and Ignition Company, the Plywood department at Crayford Creek, Canadian Vickers, William Beardmore and Co, and Wolseley Motors

* The Canadian ( 1926 ) directed by William Beaudine.

* August 26 – Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth ( d. 1926 )

It was called Cubs Park between 1920 and 1926 before being renamed for then Cubs team owner and chewing gum magnate, William Wrigley, Jr ..

* Van Wyck, William, Savonarola: A Biography in Dramatic Episodes ( 1926 )

In 1926 Dr. William M. Watts ( pictured left ) opened a 22-bed hospital facility to provide in-patient care to Oakland's citizens of African descent who were not welcome at other health care institutions.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

The theatre burned down in 1926, with the then artistic director, William Bridges-Adams, moving all productions to the local cinema.

Extracts were also broadcast in 1925 as part of Shakespeare: Scene and Story, with William Charles Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner, and in 1926 as part of Shakespeare's Heroines, with Edmund Willard and Madge Titheradge.

* William Sanders Scarborough ( 1852 – 1926 ), American classics scholar

* 1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.

Roger William Corman ( born April 5, 1926 ) is an Academy Award winning American film producer, director and actor.

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 ): " The Metamorphosis " ( 1915 ), The Trial ( 1925 ), The Castle ( 1926 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ); Alfred Döblin ( 1857-1957 ): Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ); Djuna Barnes ( 1892-1982 ): Nightwood ( 1936 ); Malcolm Lowry ( 1909-57 ): Under the Volcano ( 1947 ); Ernest Hemingway ; William Faulkner ; James Hanley ( 1897-1985 ); James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ): " The Nighttown " section of Ulysses ( 1922 ); Patrick White ( 1912-90 ); D. H. Lawrence ; Sheila Watson: Double Hook ; Elias Canetti: Auto de Fe ; Thomas Pynchon.

Originally named Fulford in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the United States Coast Guard, the city was incorporated in 1927 as Fulford, but was renamed North Miami Beach in 1931.

Joe A. Pullig ( 1849 – 1926 ) operated a general store, later in partnership with William McCain.

Nyarlathotep subsequently appears as a major character in " The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath " ( 1926 / 27 ), in which he again manifests in the form of an Egyptian Pharaoh when he confronts protagonist Randolph Carter.

* Out of the Inkwell # ( 1919 – 1926 ; earlier entries produced by John Randolph Bray from 1918 to 1921 )

In 1926, he unseated in the primary the one-term incumbent Tom Jefferson Terral and then defeated in the general election the Republican attorney Milton Drew Bowers ( 1886 – 1985 ), originally from Pocahontas in Randolph County, in northeastern Arkansas in the general election.

In Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ( 1926 ), Randolph Carter has a fateful encounter with the High Priest Not to Be Described.

Owner William Randolph Hearst with architect Julia Morgan in 1926.

The idea for Randolph began soon after passage in the United States Congress of the Air Corps Act of 1926, which changed the name of the Army Air Service to the Army Air Corps, created two new brigadier general positions and provided a five-year expansion program for the under-strength Air Corps.

Negri then met Rudolph Valentino at a costume party held by Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst at the San Simeon estate, and was Valentino's lover until his death in 1926.

The power system was changed from 6600 volts AC to 1500 volts DC on July 28, 1926, allowing CSS & SB trains to operate directly to the Illinois Central's Randolph Street Terminal without an engine change.

Randolph in 1925 and published in 1926.

On January 12, 2012, Walgreens's opened a flagship location at Randolph Street, where it had previously existed from 1926 to 2005, when construction of Joffrey Tower necessitated its demolition.

The following commuter rail services operated through the station ( electrified after 1926 ) en route to Randolph Street Terminal ( now Millennium Station ) approximately 1. 5 miles to the north:

Archie Randolph Ammons ( February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001 ) was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.

* Robert Randolph Bruce ( 1861 – 1942 ), Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, 1926 – 1931

Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, more commonly known as Fianna Fáil () is a centrist to centre-right Irish republican and conservative political party in Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926.

Schools include Granville Boys High School which was founded in 1926, Granville Public School, Granville East Public School, Blaxcell Street Public School and Holy Family Catholic School.

The International African Institute ( IAI ) was founded ( as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures ) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages.

The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.

* 1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision

The oldest, and arguably most famous, head race is the Head of the River Race, founded by Steve Fairbairn in 1926 which takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom.

20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001 ) was an Israeli general, politician, and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer.

* 1926 – Joe Kubert, American writer and illustrator, founded The Kubert School ( d. 2012 )

Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation ( ITTF ), founded in 1926.

In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in Britain, and the International Table Tennis Federation followed in 1926.

The city hosts Ca ' Foscari University of Venice founded in 1868, Iuav University of Venice founded in 1926 and Venice International University an international research center founded in 1995 located on the island of San Servolo.

Bauhaus Dessau, built from 1925 to 1926 to a design by Walter Gropius founded modern architecture.

From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party ( which was founded in 1918 ) was minimal.

In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.

In 1926, a separate Vereniging tot Kolonisatie van Nieuw-Guinea ( Association for the Settlement of New Guinea ) was founded.

The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry.

Daimler-Benz AG () was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines ; founded in 1926.

Tex Rickard founded the Rangers in 1926.

* Broń Radom-men's football team, founded in 1926, currently in 3rd league.

In 1926, he founded the Étoile Nord-Africaine ( North African Star ) party, to which Messali Hadj, also a member of the PCF and of its affiliated trade union, the Confédération générale du travail unitaire ( CGTU ), joined the following year.

The organisation was decimated then, and further disintigration occurred in 1926 when Fianna Fáil was founded.

By 1926, management of the club had passed on to a new generation of members, and it was through their efforts that Odd were finally admitted into the regional series in 1927, ten years after the club was founded.

In 1926, Monsanto founded and incorporated a company town named Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois.