General Leigh Wade flew with Earhart in 1929: " She was a born flier, with a delicate touch on the stick.

Earhart subsequently made her first attempt at competitive air racing in 1929 during the first Santa Monica-to-Cleveland Women's Air Derby ( later nicknamed the " Powder Puff Derby " by Will Rogers ).

George P. Putnam, who was known as GP, was divorced in 1929 and sought out Earhart, proposing to her six times before she finally agreed.

In 1929, Amelia Earhart visited Lake Orion and flew an experimental glider at Scripps Mansion.

Amongst other famous visitors were Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, who each made separate trips to the island in 1929.

Having divorced in 1929, Putnam spent an extensive amount of time with Earhart, which resulted in an intimate relationship and, in 1931, their marriage.

Amelia Earhart, George Putnam's second wife, was the first president of The Ninety-Nines, an organization of ( originally ) 99 female pilots formed in 1929 for the support and advancement of aviation.

In 1929 California to Cleveland were the start and end for the first Women's Air Derby, which developed into the All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, nicknamed Powder Puff Derby, that featured well-known female pilots such as Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, Bobbi Trout, and Louise Thaden.

It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart.

... Harry B. Earhart started the foundation in 1929 with the fortune he made with White Star Oil Company.

A unified set of regulations, applicable to all areas, was issued in 1929, and a complementary series of demographic inquiries in selected areas was instituted at the same time.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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.

Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

The Annales was founded and edited by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, while they were teaching at the University of Strasbourg and later in Paris.

A complete periodic table of antimatter was envisaged by Charles Janet in 1929.

Fleming published his discovery in 1929, in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, but little attention was paid to his article.

It was not until the completion of the Paimio Sanatorium ( 1929 ) and Viipuri Library ( 1935 ) that Aalto first achieved world attention in architecture.

The marriage was dissolved in 1929 and Shapiro / Tanaroff acknowledged his paternity, but never married Hanka Grothendieck.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

In 1929, Mojżesz Presburger showed that the theory of natural numbers with addition and equality ( now called Presburger arithmetic in his honor ) is decidable and gave an algorithm that could determine if a given sentence in the language was true or false.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

Agner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929 ) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

In 1929, King Aleksandar proclaimed a dictatorship and imposed a new constitution which, among other things, renamed the country the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

This Fermi gas model was then used by the British physicist E. C. Stoner in 1929 to calculate the relationship among the mass, radius, and density of white dwarfs, assuming them to be homogenous spheres.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

* 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

* 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.

La Révolution surréaliste continued publication into 1929 with most pages densely packed with columns of text, but also included reproductions of art, among them works by de Chirico, Ernst, Masson, and Man Ray.

William Dieterle's Sex in Chains ( 1928 ), and Pabst's Pandora's Box ( 1929 ) deal with homosexuality among men and women, respectively, and were not censored.

A number of his volumes remain in print, The Book of Ceremonial Magic ( 1911 ), The Holy Kabbalah ( 1929 ), A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry ( 1921 ), and his edited translation of Eliphas Levi's Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual ( 1896 ) among others by Levi, having seen reprints in recent years.

Mintz, meanwhile, opened his own studio consisting primarily of former Disney employees, where he continued to produce Oswald cartoons, among them the first Oswald with sound, Hen Fruit ( 1929 ).

Despite his considerable success in fighting the effects of the Great Depression of 1929, his fiscal policies involving reduction of military expenditures created many enemies within the military, and he was among those assassinated by rebelling military officers in the February 26 Incident of 1936.

On July 15, 1929, the uyezds were abolished, the governorates merged into Northern Krai, and Plesetsky District was established among others.

Created on year 1929, it manages a Symphonic Orchestra, a Chamber Music and Ballet ensembles, and a Choir, among others.

The term " gremlin " denoting a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft, originates in Royal Air Force ( RAF ) slang in the 1920s among the British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East and India, with the earliest recorded printed use being in a poem published in the journal Aeroplane, in Malta on April 10, 1929.

He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the best known was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924 – 1929, which included, at various times, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Chauncey Morehouse, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Rank, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Steve Brown, Joe Venuti, and arranger Robert Ginzler among others.

He arrived in Detroit in 1929 with an obscure background and several aliases, where he taught a distinctive form of Islam among the city's African-American population.

The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s ; the 1929 Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first.

Most notable among Mead's published papers are “ Suggestions Towards a Theory of the Philosophical Disciplines ” ( 1900 ); “ Social Consciousness and the Consciousness of Meaning ” ( 1910 ); “ What Social Objects Must Psychology Presuppose ” ( 1910 ); “ The Mechanism of Social Consciousness ” ( 1912 ); “ The Social Self ” ( 1913 ); “ Scientific Method and the Individual Thinker ”( 1917 ); “ A Behavioristic Account of the Significant Symbol ” ( 1922 ); “ The Genesis of Self and Social Control ” ( 1925 ); “ The Objective Reality of Perspectives ” ( 1926 );” The Nature of the Past ” ( 1929 ); and “ The Philosophies of Royce, James, and Dewey in Their American Setting ” ( 1929 ).

Heilmann ’ s batting average dropped off somewhat in 1928 (. 328 ) and 1929 (. 344 ), though he was still among the league leaders in batting average both years.

The impoverished Jewish families relied on their own local charity, which had reached universally unprecedented proportions by 1929, providing services such as religion, education, health and other services to the amount of 200 million złoty a year, thanks in part to Jewish per capita income among the working Jews more than 40 % higher than that of Polish non-Jews.

Studio in academy become center of artistic life ; it has concentrated bunch of student, four groups have showed from among which ( who ) realizing esthetic foundation of champion company st. 1925-1930 ( ) Łukasza, warsaw school ( 1929 – 1939 ), 1932 ( Loża Wolnomalarska, from 1935 paint ) Loża and group fourth ( 1935 – 1936 ).

From 1927 to 1929, Butler was commander of the Marine Expeditionary Force in China and, while there, cleverly parlayed his influence among various generals and warlords to the protection of U. S. interests, ultimately winning the public acclaim of contending Chinese leaders.