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 ).

Attlee opposed the 1926 General Strike, believing that strike action should not be used as a political weapon.

The ruling PNH nominated General Carías while the PLH, united again following the death of Policarpo Bonilla in 1926, nominated Vicente Mejía Colindres.

In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

During the Northern Expedition, in 1926 in Guangxi, Muslim General Bai Chongxi led his troops in destroying Buddhist temples and smashing idols, turning the temples into schools and Kuomintang party headquarters.

They wrote the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists which was written in 1926 by Dielo Truda (" Workers ' Cause ").

Strikers gathering in Tyldesley in the 1926 General Strike in the U. K.

* 1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

In 1926 King advised the Governor General, Lord Byng, to dissolve Parliament and call another election, but Byng refused, the only time in Canadian history that the Governor General has exercised such a power.

In the ensuing Canadian federal election, 1926, King appealed for public support of the constitutional principle that the Governor General must accept the advice of his ministers, though this principle was at most only customary.

** UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends ( the strike began on May 3 ).

The IWW was present to varying extents in many of the struggles in the early decades of the 20th century, including the UK General Strike of 1926, and the dockers ' strike of 1947.

* Hale, A. R., " These Cults ": An Analysis of the Foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbein's " Medical Follies " and an Indictment of Medical Practice in General, with a Non-Partisan Presentation of the Case for the Drugless Schools of Healing, Comprising Essays on Homeopathy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, The Abrams Method, Vivisection, Physical Culture, Christian Science, Medical Publicity, The Cost of Hospitalization and State Medicine, National Health Foundation, ( New York ), 1926.

* 1926 – General Electric Company introduced the first hermetic compressor refrigerator

< p > With full responsibility for my words, I am now compelled to say that the cruel massacre of the Chinese proletariat and the Chinese Revolution at its three most important turning points, the strengthening of the position of the trade union agents of British imperialism after the General Strike of 1926, and, finally, the general weakening of the position of the Communist International and the Soviet Union, the party owes principally and above all to Stalin.

* General Baucheron de Boissoudy ( 1926 )

* General Gerard ( 1926 )

* General Ruffey 1926

Other defunct statewide elected offices that no longer exist include the Comptroller ( which became Controller in 1862 ), the Surveyor General ( 1849 – 1926 ), and the Clerk of the Supreme Court.

* The General ( 1926 film ), a Buster Keaton film

John Aloysius Costello (; 20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976 ), a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 – 1932 and Taoiseach from 1948 – 1951 and 1954 – 1957.

* So Disdained ( 1928 ), written soon after the General Strike of 1926, reflected the debate in British Society about socialism and considered whether Italian fascism was an effective antidote.

The British General Strike lasted nine days ( May 3 to 12, 1926 ) and resulted in a defeat for the unions.

* 1926 – UK General Strike of 1926

Lloyd George succeeded him as chairman of the Liberal Members of Parliament, but Asquith remained overall head of the party until 1926, when Lloyd George, who had quarrelled with Asquith once again over whether or not to support the General Strike ( Asquith supported the government ), succeeded him in that position as well.

Walthamstow saw lively involvement in the General Strike of 1926, with Winston Churchill's coach reportedly being overturned on Walthamstow High Street.

Taylor himself was recruited into the Communist Party of Great Britain by a friend of the family, military historian Tom Wintringham, while at Oriel ; a member from 1924 to 1926, he broke with the Party over what he considered to be its ineffective stand during the 1926 General Strike.

At one stage, during the General Strike of 1926, the salvage operation was about to grind to a halt due to a lack of coal to feed the boilers for the water pumps, until Cox ordered that the abundant fuel bunkers of the sunken battlecruiser Seydlitz be broken into to extract the coal with mechanical grabs, allowing work to continue.

His serious interest in politics came about as a result of the General Strike of 1926, and he lectured in economics for the Workers ' Educational Association to miners in Nottinghamshire.

The country went through successive crises after the war: the 1922 – 1926 General Strike ; the Great Depression of 1929 – 32 ; the rise of communist Bolshevism after 1917 and Fascism after 1922 ; the Spanish Civil War 1936 onwards ; the invasion of Abyssinia 1936 ; the League of Nations Crisis which followed ; and the re-armament and resurgence of Germany from 1933, leading into another World War.

This proved to be a mixed blessing in the General Strike of 1926 immediately prior to which much of the central leadership of the CPGB was imprisoned.

The Board of Guardians ( Default ) Act 1926 was passed in response to some Boards of Guardians supporting the Miners during the General Strike.

In 1926 the show was held a week late due to the General Strike.

Gustav Metzger ( born 1926 ) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike.

A militant socialist, he was horrified by the class collaborationism of the Trades Union Congress after the defeat of the 1926 General Strike, and was co-author with the left-wing Miners leader, Arthur Cook, of the Cook-Maxton Manifesto of 1928.

Reparations in the form of free German coal depressed the local industry, precipitating the 1926 General Strike.

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

The fascists banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.

The Fascist government in Italy banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.

" Instead of coaching his 1926 team against Carnegie Tech, Rockne traveled to Chicago for the Army – Navy Game to " write newspaper articles about it, as well as select an All-America football team.

In 1912 the U. S. arranged a 40-year international loan of $ 1. 7 million, against which Liberia had to agree to four Western powers ( America, Britain, France and Germany ) controlling Liberian Government revenues for the next 14 years, until 1926.

Among its successes were its fight against the international trade in opium and sexual slavery, and its work to alleviate the plight of refugees, particularly in Turkey in the period up to 1926.

Australia ’ s highest first class score was posted at the MCG when Victoria made 1107 against New South Wales in 1926 – 27.

The parties further pledged neutrality in the event of an attack against one another with the 1926 Treaty of Berlin.

Following the evacuation of U. S. Marines in 1925, another violent conflict between liberals and conservatives known as the Constitutionalist War took place in 1926, when Liberal soldiers in the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabezas revolted against Conservative President Adolfo Díaz, recently installed as a result of United States pressure following a coup.

In 1926, Stalin allied with Nikolai Bukharin who then led the campaign against " Trotskyism ".

" Yet it is common knowledge, Trotsky argues, that three years later, in 1926, " Bukharin was the chief and indeed the sole theoretician of the entire campaign against ' Trotskyism ', summed up in the struggle against the theory of the permanent revolution.

On 9 August 1926 he wrote an open letter to the American President Calvin Coolidge, arguing against France paying all its war-debts: " France is not for sale, even to her friends ".

In 1926 he attempted an insurrection against the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

Entering the Finals against the New York Islanders, the Canucks were the first team from Western Canada to play for the Stanley Cup in 56 years, when the Victoria Cougars reached the 1926 Stanley Cup Finals.

In 1926, del Valle served with the Gendarmerie of Haiti for three years and, during that time, he also became active in the war against Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua.

The Ryder Cup began following an exhibition match in 1926 between a team comprising American professionals against a similar one drawn from the British PGA on the East Course at Wentworth Club, in Surrey, England.

In retaliation against the French, the German populace of the city has insisted on using the more German spelling of Koblenz since 1926.

Eventually, the inhabitants of Graubünden gave up their resistance against individual motor traffic in 1926, and the 1967 opened San Bernardino road tunnel, built to host tourism traffic, is used also by heavy goods vehicles nowadays although not really suitable for them for its ascent gradients.

In 1926, he played his first Test match against Australia in the second Test of the series, at Lord's.

The Italians compelled Zog to refuse to renew the First Treaty of Tirana ( 1926 ), although Zog still retained British officers in the Gendarmerie as a counterbalance against the Italians, who had pressured Zog to remove them.

Three of his first-class games were internationals against Argentina on the MCC " representative " tour of South America in 1926 – 27.

Although the need for a better airport was acknowledged in 37 studies conducted between 1926 and 1938, there was a statutory prohibition against federal development of airports.

In 1926, miners at Denton Colliery joined the national strike against reduced wages and longer working hours.

By the time he was 12, less than three years after first learning the game, he was already of professional strength, as evidenced by his games against the visiting Japanese player Iwamoto Kaoru, 6p in 1926.