Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

His governments were accused of being corrupt even before he even took power in 1928.

Many prominent figures testified in that trial, including members of the parliamentary committee investigating the reasons for the defeat, so some of its results were made public long before the publication of the committee report in 1928.

The psychologist Edward B. Titchener in his book 1928 A Textbook of Psychology, explained déjà vu as caused by a person having a brief glimpse of an object or situation, before the brain has completed " constructing " a full conscious perception of the experience.

The relationship between England and FIFA became strained and this resulted in their departure from FIFA in 1928, before rejoining in 1946.

Other early synthesizers included Thaddeus Cahill's Dynamophone or Telharmononium ( before 1907 ), Jorg Mager's Spherophone ( 1924 ) and Partiturophone, the Theremin ( 1927 ), which was marketed by RCA, Taubmann's similar Electronde ( 1933 ), the Ondes Martenot ( 1928 ), Trautwein's Trautonium ( 1930 ).

* 1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.

A talented student, Friedman graduated from Rahway High School in 1928, just before his 16th birthday.

He had been in charge of American relief efforts in Europe after World War I before his election as President of the United States in 1928.

Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.

An earlier military Enigma machine had been captured by Polish Intelligence in 1928 ; Polish intelligence broke the Enigma code in 1932 and gave their findings to Britain and France in 1939, just before the German invasion of Poland.

Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomer Edward W. Maunder ( 1851 – 1928 ) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.

Hoover and Smith had been widely known as potential presidential candidates long before the campaign of 1928, and both were generally regarded as of outstanding leadership quite apart from the office of president.

In 1935, decades before the introduction of the Compact Cassette, AEG released the first reel-to-reel tape recorder ( in German: Tonbandgerät ), with the commercial name " Magnetophon ", based on the invention of the magnetic tape ( 1928 ) by Fritz Pfleumer, which used similar technology but with open reels ( for which the tape was manufactured by BASF ).

On June 14, 1928, the summer before the start of his senior year, LeMay accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery Reserve of the United States Army.

He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922, and after some hesitation over his employment, he stayed for six years, working as a car mechanic before returning home to start his own auto repair business in 1928 at the age of 22.

Chaplin's feature The Circus, released in 1928, was his last film before the motion picture industry embraced sound recording and brought the silent movie era to a close.

After achieving second place in a 1928 cartoon contest, the 23-year-old Gottfredson moved to Southern California with his wife and family, just before Christmas.

On the day of the 1928 Grand National, before the race had begun, Tipperary Tim's jockey William Dutton heard a friend call out to him: " Billy boy, you'll only win if all the others fall down!

There was once a ditch before the fence but this was filled in after a mêlée in the 1928 race.

The North African Party broke from the PCF in 1928, before being dissolved in 1929 at Paris's demand.

Originally set in Ula, the county seat moved to Rosita in 1878, and to Silver Cliff in 1886 before settling in Westcliffe in 1928.

In 1928, just before the onset of the Great Depression, Illinois State Highway 74 ( later Illinois Route 26 ) was rerouted through the eastern part of Orangeville, bypassing the downtown business district.

The company was renamed Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation in April 1928, shortly before Gordon Taylor died in a airplane crash on April 24, 1928.

In 1928, the sport dropped the ' one hand ' exercises altogether leaving only the three remaining exercises: the clean and press, the snatch and the clean and jerk.

Wilhelm, Duke of Urach ( 1864 – 1928 ), had the distinction of being under consideration for five thrones at different times: that of King of Wurttemberg in the 1890s, as the senior agnate by primogeniture when it became likely that King William II would die without male descendants, leaving as heir Duke Albrecht of Wurttemberg, a more distantly related, albeit dynastic, royal kinsman ; Prince of Albania in 1913 ; Prince of Monaco as the next heir by proximity of blood following the Hereditary Prince Louis during a succession crisis resolved in July 1918 ; Grand Duke of Alsace-Lorraine in 1917, and his election by the Taryba as King of Lithuania in July 1918.

After leaving school in 1926, Crisp studied journalism at King's College London, but failed to graduate in 1928, going on to take art classes at the Regent Street Polytechnic.

The first Astor Bridge was built in 1926 ; by 1928, Astor's hotel had burned down and the railroad was abandoned, leaving Astor without telephone or telegraph service for the next few decades.

The phrase also appears in the January 13, 1928, issue of Variety, " Mickeyfinning isn't describable, but it's easily worked, leaving its victims miserable.

After her father's death, her mother moved to Cleveland, Ohio, leaving her to be reared by foster parents, Emma ( 1866 – 1951 ) and Richard D. Fulks ( 1862 – 1928 ), the chief of detectives in Saint Joseph.

After leaving Walt Disney in the spring of 1928, Harman and Ising went to work for Charles Mintz on Universal's second-season Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons.

In January 1928, the high school moved to North 23 and B street, leaving the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades to make up the junior high.

Although Abdullah established a legislative council in 1928 its role remained advisory leaving him to rule as an autocrat.

In 1928 the Main-Taunus district was formed when the cities of Wiesbaden and Frankfurt annexed adjoining areas, leaving the remaining unincorporated areas in the former districts of Wiesbaden and Höchst too small to survive on their own.

At his death his estate was estimated to be $ 100 million ( USD ), ($ today ) divided equally among his three living children: second son Rodman Wanamaker, who was made sole inheritor of the store businesses ( Rodman died in 1928 leaving the businesses with a documented worth of $ 35 million

Just before leaving for Europe in 1928, Tate described himself to John Gould Fletcher as " an enforced atheist ".

In 1928, Kennan considered leaving the Foreign Service to go back to school when he was selected for a linguist training program that would give him three years of graduate level study without having to leave the service.

After leaving office he continued to be the dominant leader from 1928 – 1935, a period known as the maximato.

On leaving Oriel, Sellar worked as a schoolmaster at his old school Fettes, leaving in 1928 when he moved to Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire in the hope of becoming a full-time writer.

He attended the Horace Mann School ( Riverdale, Bronx, New York ), graduating in 1926, and then went to Cornell University from 1927 to 1928 and New York University from 1928 to 1930, leaving without receiving a degree.

After leaving Marburg in 1928, Fraenkel taught at the University of Kiel for a year.

Isshiki regained its town status on October 1, 1923, followed by Yoshida and Hirasaku in 1924, Hazu in 1928, Terazu in 1929, leaving the district with 6 towns and 6 villages by 1932.

The village of Iwatsu became a town on September 1, 1928 and later the same year, three neighboring villages were annexed by Okazaki, leaving the district with two towna and 11villages.

However once more fate took a hand and in 1928 the club folded leaving the Town with no senior club.

On 11 October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights, leaving Friedrichshafen, Germany, at 07: 54 on 11 October 1928, and arriving at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 15 October.