All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

After retirement, Burns promoted some boxing shows and in 1928 moved to New York City where he ran a speakeasy.

Curtis ran for Vice-President with Herbert Hoover as President in 1928.

In 1928 Curtis ran with Herbert Hoover heading the Republican ticket for president and vice-president.

* A Broadway play by Patrick Kearney opened on 7 August 1928 at the Playhouse Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances.

In 1928 he again ran for governor, campaigning with the slogan, " Every man a king, but no one wears a crown ," a phrase adopted from Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.

* Ignazio Vella ( 1928 – 2011 ) ran the Vella Cheese Company for many years and also served three terms on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.

It ran through central Duncan until 1928, when it was shifted to the south side of the tracks in order to eliminate grade-level crossings between Columbus and Grand Island.

Watson retired in 1928, and Curtin ran again, winning on the second count.

* Blackbirds of 1928 Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on May 9 and ran for 518 performances

Dunn ran the Orioles until his death from a heart attack in 1928.

The original 1928 production ran on Broadway for 318 performances.

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead ( receiving 33. 4 % of the vote ), but won fourteen years later.

Brown ran as a Republican Party for the State Assembly in 1928, but lost ; he joined the Democratic Party in 1932.

He also wrote a number of books which ran into several editions, including Harry Lauder at Home and on Tour ( 1912 ), A Minstrel in France ( 1918 ), Between You and Me ( 1919 ), Roamin ’ in the Gloamin ’ ( 1928 autobiography ), My Best Scotch Stories ( 1929 ), Wee Drappies ( 1931 ) and

Including the London Bridge to East Croydon route electrified in 1928, by the end of 1929 the Southern operated over route miles () of 3rd rail electrified track and in that year ran 17. 8 million electric train miles.

Movietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States, and from 1929 to 1979 in the United Kingdom.

Landes ran for a second term in 1928.

He agreed to support Simmons's favored candidate for Governor in 1924, Angus Wilton McLean, in exchange for Simmons supporting Gardner when he ran for Governor again in 1928.

Several segments of the Evanston Branch itself ran at street level until 1928, when it was elevated onto a concrete embankment between Church Street and the North Shore Channel.

The estate was purchased by the Patrician Brothers, a Roman Catholic teaching order who ran a much-loved school from the estate, and who in 1928 added a wing to the house.

Tolmie was elected leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party in 1926 but continued to sit as a Member of Parliament until the 1928 provincial election, in which he ran and was elected MLA for Saanich.

Andrews ran the Cardiff Road section in 1928, and offered to sell the tramway to Pwllheli Corporation at the end of the season, but they did not take up his offer.

Prior to the Olympiad, she ran the lead leg in the relay in the 1928 Olympic trials.

He owned a logging equipment business here from 1923 to 1928, and later became Northwest district manager for Macwhyte Co..

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

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.

His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.

In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice-president until 1928.

An important period for the journal was 1928 – 1958 with Solomon Lefschetz as editor.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

* Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929 ( 1928 )

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

It became common for Prayer Books to print the 1662 and 1928 forms of service in parallel columns, although the legal basis of the revision remained unclear.

Both differ substantially from the Book of Common Prayer, though the latter includes in the Order Two form of the Holy Communion a very slight revision of the prayer book service, largely along the lines proposed for the 1928 Prayer Book.

When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year.

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.

* Avram Noam Chomsky ( born 1928 ), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at < font color = 0 > MIT, known for early work in < font color = 0 > transformational grammar and < font color = 0 > A. I.

The running track was used for dirt track racing between 1928 and 1932, greyhound racing from 1933 to 1968, and Midget car racing in 1948.

According to " Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by Van Dine in 1928: " The detective story is a kind of intellectual game.

In this book and a series of associated articles between 1925 and 1928, Westermann both identified a large number of roots that form the basis of our understanding of Niger – Congo and set out the evidence for the coherence of many of the families that constitute it.

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.

When Hooper fell into financial difficulties, the Britannica was managed by Sears Roebuck for 18 years ( 1920 – 23, 1928 – 43 ).

In mathematics and computer science, the (, German for ' decision problem ') is a challenge posed by David Hilbert in 1928.

According to Dennis Gabor, the physicist Leó Szilárd tried in 1928 to convince him to build an electron microscope, for which he had filed a patent.