In 1929, Willkie became a legal counsel for the New York-based Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, which provided electrical power to customers in eleven states.

From 1929 to 1944, Boyd Orr was Consultant Director to the Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition, later the Commonwealth Bureau of Nutrition ( part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux ), which was based at the Rowett Research Institute.

The mine boomed in the late 1920s and early 1930s, becoming the largest producer of copper in the British Commonwealth by 1929, under the management of the mine manager C. P.

*, a River class torpedo boat destroyer commissioned into the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1910, transferred to the RAN on its foundation in 1911, operated until 1929, and scuttled

In 1929 Charles Cahan moved in the House of Commons that a special committee be formed to reconsider the 1919 Nickle Resolution, which had marked the earliest attempt to establish a Canadian government policy forbidding the British, and, later, Canadian, Sovereign from granting knighthoods, baronetcies, and peerages to Canadians, and set the precedent for later policies prohibiting Canadians from accepting or holding titles of honour from Commonwealth or foreign countries.

degrees from the National University of Ireland and from Harvard University, was a Commonwealth Fellow from 1926 to 1928 and a Harvard Fellow from 1928 to 1929.

The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration was almost dismantled by Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce in 1929.

John Francis Young VC ( 14 January 1893 – 7 November 1929 ) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

The Third Bruce Ministry was the nineteenth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 29 November 1928 to 22 October 1929.

The Scullin ministryThe Scullin Ministry was the twentieth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 22 October 1929 to 6 January 1932.

Captain George Allan Maling VC ( 6 October 1888 – 9 July 1929 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Crawshaw Raynes VC ( 28 April 1887 – 12 November 1929 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

George Fraser Kerr VC, MC & Bar, MM, ( 8 June 1895 – 8 December 1929 ) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award given to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

In addition, the 1929 Steel-Greenfield mansion was restored to its original appearance and renovated for classroom, conference and meeting use, and is now known as Commonwealth Chateau.

This was extended to Alice Springs by Commonwealth Railways in 1929, when it was renamed the Central Australia Railway.

On Hughes ' removal, he subsequently joined the Nationalist Party and from 1925 to 1929, he served as the Commonwealth Attorney-General in the Nationalist government under Stanley Bruce and Earle Page.

In 1929, Dixon was appointed to the bench of the High Court, by his friend John Latham, who was then the Commonwealth Attorney-General.

It was extended to Alice Springs by Commonwealth Railways in 1929, when it was renamed the Central Australia Railway.

These were the municipal district presidents after Datu Manuel: Alfredo Lindo ( 1929 – 1931 ); Luis Yabut ( 1931 – 1933 ) ; Teodoro Panuncialman ( 1933 – 1939 ); Carlos Badolato ( 1939 to the Outbreak of World War II ); Sixto Carreon ( 1940 onward to the Japanese Occupation ); Cresencio Tuballa ( 1944 – 1945 time of the Philippine Commonwealth military and Recognized Guerrillas ); Claudio Libre ( 1945 – 1946 ); Cresencio Tuballa ( 1946 ); Carlos Badolato ( 1946 – 1947 ).

In return for his resignation, Groom was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives and presided from January 1926 to 1929, when he helped oversee the move of federal Parliament from Melbourne to the newly constructed capital Canberra but his refusal to use his casting vote as speaker on a bill that would remove the Commonwealth from most of its involvement in conciliation and arbitration led to the collapse of the Bruce government and the 1929 election.

Edison ceased cylinder manufacture in the autumn of 1929, and the history of disc and cylinder rivalry was concluded.

Thomas Edison was the first honorary fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, which was founded in 1929.

* Middlesex Council, 1929 – 1969-Merged with Raritan Council to form Thomas A. Edison Council in 1969.

* Wilber B. Huston ' 29, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship contest and NASA mission director

Blue Amberol Records was the trademarked name for cylinder recordings manufactured by the Edison company in the U. S. from 1912 to 1929.

Ft. Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929. Firestone, Ford, and Thomas Edison were generally considered the three leaders in American industry at the time, and often worked and vacationed together.

The Edison Disc, also known as a Diamond Disc record, was a type of audio disc record marketed by Edison Records from 1912 to 1929.

Sales continued to drop, however, and although Edison Discs were available from dealers until the company left the record business in late October 1929, the last vertically-cut direct masters were recorded in the early summer of that year.

Edison Vasilievich Denisov () ( April 6, 1929, Tomsk, Russia — November 24, 1996, Paris, France ) was a Russian composer of so-called " Underground " — " Anti-Collectivist ", " alternative " or " nonconformist " division in the Soviet music.

In 1929 Thomas Edison bowed out of the record industry altogether, ceasing all production of his disks and cylinders, which he had also manufactured up to that point.

* 1929: AEI bought Edison Swan ( Ediswan ) and Ferguson Pailin, which BTH had been in the process of buying in 1928.

Their recording of " Nonsense " ( Edison Lateral 14085 ) in September 1929 was an uptempo and frantic number that would be a pioneering effort of the sound that was to be known as western swing.

The Edison Institute was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover to Ford's longtime friend Thomas Edison on October 21, 1929 – the 50th anniversary of the first successful incandescent light bulb.

Greenfield Village was opened in 1929 to preserve historic landmarks, including Noah Webster ’ s House, Thomas Edison ’ s Menlo Lab and the garage where Henry Ford built the Quadricycle, his first car.

* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.

In 1929 before the Great Depression hit, over 25, 000 tons of stainless steel were manufactured and sold in the US.

* was an A-class destroyer launched in 1929 and sold in 1946.

In 1929, Lockheed sold out to Detroit Aircraft Corporation.

Tom Swift's adventures have been popular since the character's inception in 1910: by 1914, 150, 000 copies a year were being sold and in a 1929 study found the series to be second in popularity only to the Bible for boys in their early teens.

This property was sold in 1929 to Robert Bright who used it as a summerhouse until 1943.

Gakona Lodge was built in 1929 by Arne N Sundt and was operated by Henra Sundt until 1976 when she sold it to the Strang family.

du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1929 and later sold to it to Ciba-Geigy in 1984.

The Desloge Consolidated Lead Company plant ran under the family operation until 1929 when the company was sold to the St. Joe Lead Company.

Between 1928 and 1929, about 8, 000 lots were sold in Pinewald, a " new-type, residential, recreational city-of-the sea-and-pines.

It was closed as a church in 1929, and sold in 1972 to a local filmmaker, Walter Helmuth, who used it as a house.

In 1929, the 9th Duke of Devonshire finally sold Chiswick House to Middlesex County Council and it became a firestation.

That company was eventually renamed The Decca Gramophone Co. Ltd. and then sold to former stockbroker Edward Lewis in 1929.

RCA sold its stake in EMI in 1935, but due to its earlier takeover of the Victor label in 1929, RCA retained the North and South American rights to the " Nipper " trademark.

The original wooden pier is believed to have been demolished in 1929, with the iron from the tippler being sold as scrap.

First built on the North Shore in Crystal Bay by Robert Sherman in 1926, the Calneva cabin became the property of Norman Henry Biltz and was sold to Bill Graham and Jim McKay in 1929.

In 1929 Gerrard Weller sold the brewery and 133 tied public houses to Benskins of Watford for £ 360, 000, a move that led to the end of brewing in Amersham.

In 1929, 145ha of the first estate was sold to an American business man, Mr William Tuck, who built another castle called " chateau Bellevue ".

In 1926, Johnson sold his controlling ( but not holding ) interest in Victor to the banking firm of Seligman & Spyer, who in 1929 sold to the Radio Corporation of America, which then became known as the Radio-Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America later RCA Victor.

In 1929 Martin sold the Cleveland plant and built a new one in Middle River, Maryland, northeast of Baltimore.

When Sibyl Hathaway sold the island of Brecqhou to Angelo Clarke in 1929, she transferred the seat in Chief Pleas connected to this parcel to Brecqhou.

In 1929, Wallin also retired and sold his shares to them.

He sold the house in 1929.