Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

Third class bulk mail postage rates were established in 1928.

The distinction dates to the 17th century, but its modern application is due to publications by Sun Lutang, dating to the period of 1915 to 1928.

However, the engagement was called off, possibly due to his affair around this time with the journalist Adela Rogers St. John, and in 1928 he married Jessica Stewart Sargent.

In 1927, the naturalist Reginald Innes Pocock declared it a separate species, but reversed this decision in 1939 due to lack of evidence ; but in 1928, a skin purchased by Walter Rothschild was found to be intermediate in pattern between the king cheetah and spotted cheetah and Abel Chapman considered it to be a color form of the spotted cheetah.

In 1927, at 29 years of age, working at an agricultural experiment station in Azerbaijan, he embarked on the research that would lead to his 1928 paper on vernalization, which drew wide attention due to its practical consequences for Soviet agriculture.

The approval of the " pocket battleship " programme by the government in November 1928 was largely due to pressure from the Reichswehr, which formed a " state within the state ", and was a major blow to German democracy in that the military successfully pressured the government into approving something that it had been elected in order to stop ; in effect the military claimed the right on matters of national defence to overrule the elected politicians.

Over the course of 1928, as Warner Bros. began to rake in huge profits due to the popularity of its sound films, the other studios quickened the pace of their conversion to the new technology.

She was the first actress to subtley and convincingly act blind on camera due to her near-sightedness and Cherrill signed a contract on November 1, 1928.

As of 1968, the film is in the public domain due to a failure to renew the copyright registration, even though the 1928 play it is based on is still under copyright until 2024.

In 1928 FIFA, under Rimet's leadership went forward with plans for a " World Cup " which was held in Uruguay due to the nature of the professional game in South America, and in part due to the Uruguayan Football Association offering to pay all travel costs.

Standard Soap Ltd., a significant industrial employer since 1928 is due to close on 2 January 2012.

In 1928, around age 11, she moved to southern California with her foster mother, but it is not known for certain if she attempted a career in motion pictures at this time, or if the relocation was due to the fact that some of Fulks ' children also lived in the area.

Beebe provided an account of this expedition in his 1928 book Beneath Tropic Seas, which was the first of his books to receive less than enthusiastic reviews, due to its episodic structure.

In 1928, he arrived in England and briefly took part in a jazz band before being made redundant due to the 1930s depression.

Prior to 1928 it had been hypothesized that two types of electrons, " thermions " and " conduction electrons ", existed in metals, and that thermally emitted electron currents were due to the emission of thermions, but that field-emitted currents were due to the emission of conduction electrons.

The remainder of the extension opened to Ashmont station and Codman Yard on September 1, 1928, and included a station-Shawmut-where there had been no Old Colony station due to the relatively close proximity to Fields Corner.

Central in the party leadership from 1923 to 1925 but pushed aside due to the influence of the Communist International ( Comintern ), the Cannon group became in 1928 supporters of Leon Trotsky.

" In 1928, due to numerous protests against Kaganovich's management, Stalin was forced to transfer Kaganovich from Ukraine to Moscow, where he returned to his position as a Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a job he held until 1939.

Picture City, FL was also a planned site for a movie picture production center in the 1920s, but due to the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, the idea collapsed and Picture City returned to its original name of Hobe Sound.

" In 1928, due to the number of incorrect details that had crept into the seal over the years ( some pointed out as early as 1914 ), state printer Carroll H. Smith was authorized to prepare a new and correct seal.

According to official data, the surface area has been decreased from 560 km² during 1928 to 362 km² by 2003 due to sustained land reclamation activities in recent decades.

The earliest awards ( 1919 – 1928 ) featured a more narrow strip of white, while the so-called " Black Widow " medals awarded from 1941 – 1942 were notable for the dark color due to over-anodized finish.

It was released as a small-size Federal Reserve Note ( sometimes nicknamed " watermelon notes " due to the design on the reverse ) in 1928, 1934 and 1934A, and a small-size Gold Certificate in 1928.

Battle of Fallen Timbers, Postage stamps and postal history of the United States # Two Cent Red Sesquicentennial Issues of 1926-1932 | commemorative issue of 1928, 2c

Eight Dutch stamps from 1928, showing different sports of the 1928 Summer Olympics

In 1928 Icelandic authorities received a proposal from the ' Society of the Friends of Iceland ' Verein der Islandsfreunde in Vienna Austria, proposing to produce these stamps as a gift to Iceland for the Millenary celebrations.

Afghanistan joined the Universal Postal Union in 1928 ; previously international mail required stamps of British India.

Subsequently Madeira used stamps of Portugal, with two exceptions ; the first was the Pombal Issue of postal tax stamps in 1925, and a variant on the Ceres design, issued 1 May 1928.

The 21 values of Ceres stamps were obligatory on all mail for eight days-1 May, 5 June, 1 July, and 31 December 1928, and 1 January, 31 January, 1 May, and 5 June 1929.

In 1928, Madeira received intaglio printed stamps with typographic denominations ; they were made by Perkins Bacon in London.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

It was signed by Germany, France and the United States on August 27, 1928.

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.

* Italian — Modigliani, Amedeo ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot ( 1915 ); Severini, Gino: Many works, including The Two Pierrots ( 1922 ), Pierrot ( 1923 ), Pierrot the Musician ( 1924 ), The Music Lesson ( 1928 – 1929 ), The Carnival ( 1955 ).

In 1928, Kahn made a European tour and took a particular interest in the medieval walled city of Carcassonne, France and the castles of Scotland rather than any of the strongholds of classicism or modernism.

However, many of the delegates ' governments did the opposite, starting in 1928 when France passed a new tariff law and quota system.

In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who had been living in Rostov, Berlin, and Paris, France, since 1928, escaped from Paris via Nice in 1941 and joined his father-in-law in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City.

In 1928 Senghor sailed from Senegal for France, beginning in his words, " sixteen years of wandering.

He competed in Grand Prix motor racing, winning the 1927 and 1928 Grand Prix de Boulogne in France driving a Bugatti T37A.

In 1928, Harry Watson was the first Kiwi to ride in the Tour de France and finished in 28th place.

Capucine was born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France on 6 January 1928.

* Lafayette Escadrille Memorial, Villeneuve-l ' Étang Imperial Estate, in Marnes-la-Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine, outside of Paris, France, the final work of French architect Alexandre Marcel, 1928

Moral rights were first recognized in France and Germany, before they were included in the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1928.

In 1928 its members in exile in France and Belgium formed themselves into the ' Left Fraction of the Communist Party of Italy ', which became in 1935 the ' Italian Fraction of the Communist Left '.

* Natalie Zemon Davis, ( b. 1928 ) France

In 1928, the Schlumberger brothers in France developed the workhorse of all formation evaluation tools: the electric log.

A " breakthrough " would come when the Zworykin team decided to develop a new type of cathode ray transmitter, one described in the French and British patents of 1928 priority by the Hungarian inventor Kalman Tihanyi whom the company had approached in July 1930, after the publication of his patents in England and France.

In 1928, he was awarded the Freedom of the City in Dublin, Ireland and in 1929 the government of France made him a member of the Legion of Honor.

The League of Nations, formed in 1919 in the wake of the First World War, and the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War of 1928 signed in Paris, France, demonstrated that world powers were seriously seeking a means to prevent the carnage of another world war.

* Official History 1915: Edmonds, Brigadier-General Sir James E., and Wynne, Capt G. C., Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915 Volume II: Battle of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos, London: Macmillan, 1928.

Carpentier decided on a voluntary exile to France and arrived in Paris in 1928 ; he remained there until 1939, when he returned to Havana.

* Marie Émile Fayolle, ( 1852 – 1928 ), Marshal of France in 1921

The Common Firecrest expanded its range in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, colonising northern France, followed by first breeding in the Netherlands in 1928 and Denmark in 1961.

Mendès France was educated at the University of Paris, graduating with a doctorate in law and becoming the youngest member of the Paris Bar association in 1928.