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In 1928, Vanier was appointed to Canada's military delegation for disarmament to the League of Nations and, in 1930, was named secretary to the High Commission of Canada in London, remaining at that post for nearly a decade — approximately half of which he spent serving the man who would eventually immediately precede him as governor general of Canada, Vincent Massey.
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( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C. W.
Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.
A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.
After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.
The Africa Alphabet ( also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet ) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann.
He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.
In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928.
" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.
Their work was published in 1928 after Carnegie's death in Hill's book The Law of Success ( ISBN 0-87980-447-5 ) and in 1937, Think and Grow Rich ( ISBN 1-59330-200-2 ).
In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice-president until 1928.
The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.
In 1928, the club logo was introduced with the head of the Greek hero Ajax.
Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".
James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.
Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.
An important period for the journal was 1928 – 1958 with Solomon Lefschetz as editor.
The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.
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The first such British High Commissioner was appointed to Ottawa in 1928.
Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.
Then he resumed academic work, in 1928 being appointed Associate Professor of statistics and economics at the Oslo University.
In a bidding war with William Fox, Warner Bros. bought more First National shares on September 13, 1928 ; Jack Warner also appointed producer Darryl Zanuck as the studio's manager of First National Pictures.
His father, Lewis G. Stevenson, never held an elected office, but was appointed Secretary of State of Illinois ( 1914 – 1917 ) and was considered a strong contender for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1928.
To stop the bickering and resultant legislative paralysis, in 1928 the Colonial Office announced a new constitution that would make British Guiana a crown colony under tight control of a governor appointed by the Colonial Office.
He studied microchemistry at the University of Graz under Fritz Pregl in 1925, but returned to Copenhagen University, where he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Institute of Biochemistry in 1928, and assistant professor in 1929.
In 1901, he was appointed a school inspector and in 1928 he became a member of the board of education.
In 1928 the Missouri General Assembly authorized the creation of a Department of Forestry to which Fredrick Dunlap was appointed as State forester, and Paul Dunn made a District Forester in for the region including Carter County.
In 1928, Mount Lebanon became the first First Class township in Pennsylvania to adopt the council-manager form of government and has had an appointed manager serving as the chief administrative officer since that time.
He was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1928, retiring in 1950.
In 1928, he was appointed a professor at the University of Budapest, but he could not take the job because he did not hold a passport.
He was active in the Heimwehr, the paramilitary arm of right-wing political forces, and was appointed Heimwehr chief for Lower Austria in 1928.
In January 1928, following an open competition, 29-year-old Elisabeth Scott was unanimously appointed architect for the new theatre which became the first important work erected in the United Kingdom from the designs of a woman architect.
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the First Expeditionary Fleet, sent to the Yangtze River in China in December 1928.
In 1928, Nygaardsvold was appointed minister of agriculture in the short-lived Christopher Hornsrud cabinet.
In June 1928, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
After graduation Powell spent a period as personal assistant to Ottoline Morrell before being appointed to the literary department of The Sunday Times in 1928.
It was in 1928, upon the resignation of the Saadan ministry, that Tawfik al-Sowaidi was appointed premier and called to form his first cabinet.
During 1928 Frank Searle was appointed managing director to supervise recovery.
Martineau never finished his term as governor, for on March 2, 1928, U. S. President Calvin Coolidge appointed Martineau federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
In 1928, he was appointed master commissioner of the Woodford County circuit court.
Following the Balfour Declaration 1926, King appointed Vincent Massey as the first Canadian minister plenipotentiary in Washington ( 1926 ), raised the office in Paris to legation status under Philippe Roy ( 1928 ), and opened a legation in Tokyo with Herbert Marler as envoy ( 1929 ).
Verwoerd returned with his wife to South Africa in 1928 and was appointed to the chair of Applied Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch where, six years later, he became Professor of Sociology and Social Work.
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