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.

He alternated barbering and fiddling even when he moved to Fort Worth after leaving Hall County in 1929.

This arch played no part in the original designation of the area as a U. S. National Monument in 1929, and was not included within the original boundaries ; it was added when the monument was enlarged in 1938.

Other astronomers of the period also made suggestions for obtaining uniform time, including A Danjon ( 1929 ), who suggested in effect that observed positions of the Moon, Sun and planets, when compared with their well-established gravitational ephemerides, could better and more uniformly define and determine time.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league.

The Ibanez brand name dates back to 1929 when Hoshino Gakki began importing Salvador Ibáñez guitars from Spain.

Seraj-ul-Emarat, the residence of Amir Habibullah and King Amanullah was destroyed in 1929 when Habibullah Kalakani rose to power ; the other sanctuaries however, retain vestiges of the past.

From 1929 to 1934, during the period when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was trying to collectivize agriculture, Kazakhstan endured repeated famines, similar to the Holodomor in Ukraine, for which it may have provided a model, because peasants had slaughtered their livestock in protest against Soviet agricultural policy.

It was in 1929 that the first evidence of the presence of ancient early human ancestors in Kenya was discovered when Louis Leakey unearthed 1 million year old Acheulian hand axes at Kariandusi in south west Kenya.

Finally, the immensely traumatic nature of the experience dashed basic assumptions: realism seemed bankrupt when faced with the fundamentally fantastic nature of trench warfare, as exemplified by books such as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1929 ).

International agreement was achieved in 1929 when the International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference held in Monaco adopted a definition of one international nautical mile as being equal to 1, 852 metres exactly, in excellent agreement ( for an integer ) with both the above-mentioned values of historical metres and standard metres.

He gained fame as a cartographer when a small part of his first world map ( prepared in 1513 ) was discovered in 1929 at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.

The original Roman vase has remained in the British Museum ever since 1810, apart from three years ( 1929 – 32 ) when William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland put it up for sale at Christie's where it failed to reach its reserve.

The original Kantei served from 1929 until 2002, when a new building was inaugurated to serve as the current Kantei.

In 1929, Gordon was starring in the title role of " Serena Blandish " when she became pregnant by the show's producer, Jed Harris.

The retired titles were stored at the local library until 1929 when the flammable nitrate was used as landfill in a condemned swimming pool.

It is thought that the first example of a working model tramcar in the UK built by an amateur for fun was in 1929, when Frank E. Wilson created a replica of London County Council Tramways E class car 444 in 1: 16 scale, which he demonstrated at an early Model Engineer Exhibition.

Vitamin K was identified in 1929 by Danish scientist Henrik Dam when he investigated the role of cholesterol by feeding chickens a cholesterol-depleted diet.

In the third quarter of 1929, Warner Bros. gained complete control of First National, when Harry purchased the company's remaining one-third share from Fox.

The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Local output peaked in 1929, when workers in Ybor City and West Tampa rolled over 500, 000, 000 " clear Havana " cigars, earning the town the nickname " Cigar Capital of the World ".

Good-Bye to All That, an autobiography by Robert Graves, first appeared in 1929, when the author was thirty-four.

The case stagnated until December 14, 1929, when the Berrien County, Michigan Sheriff's Department raided the St. Joseph, Michigan bungalow of “ Frederick Dane ”.

In 1929, Ellington appeared in his first movie, a nineteen-minute all-African-American RKO short, Black and Tan, in which he played the hero " Duke ".

* Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra on a two-part, double-sided 78 released on Brunswick in 1929

Miley's lifestyle eventually led to his breaking up with Ellington's band in 1929, but his influence on the Duke Ellington Orchestra lasted far longer.

The club not only gave Ellington national exposure through radio broadcasts originating there ( first through WHN, then over WEAF and after September 1929 through the NBC Red Network-WEAF was the flagship station for that network-on Fridays ), but enabled him to develop his repertoire while composing not only the dance tunes for the shows, but also the overtures, transitions, accompaniments, and " jungle " effects that gave him the freedom to experiment with orchestral colours and arrangements that touring bands rarely had.

One of the earliest recorded examples of the hybrid valve / slide trombone can be found on a Duke Ellington recording, as Puerto Rica-born trombonist Juan Tizol started using it after he joined Duke's orchestra in 1929.

President Herbert Hoover conducted the first national Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery, on May 30, 1929.

In the autumn of 1929, Oberth conducted a static firing of his first liquid-fueled rocket motor, which he named the Kegeldüse.

The theatre reopened on 21 October 1929 with a new production of The Gondoliers designed by Charles Ricketts and conducted by Malcolm Sargent.

* John Philip Sousa conducted the Sousa Band on October 26, 1926 at the facility that became known as Slagle Auditorium in 1929.

Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 ( he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908 ); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 ; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works.

In addition to his work with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, from 1929 Monteux conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris ( OSP ), founded the previous year.

He conducted it until 1938, premiering many pieces, including Prokofiev's Third Symphony in 1929.

Along with his first wife Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin ( born June 19, 1929 ), he conducted statistical research in an attempt to develop a scientific basis for astrology.

In 1929, he conducted an orchestra of Parisian musicians in the first complete electrical recording of The Seasons.

UNIA 1929 conventions were held in Canada in 1936, 1937 and 1938 ; the 1937 sessions were highlighted by the introduction of the first course of African philosophy conducted by Garvey.

The Freshwater Biological Association was established on the shore of Windermere in 1929 and much of the early work on lake ecology, freshwater biology and limnology was conducted here.

At a Promenade Concert in August 1929, Heseltine conducted a performance of the Capriol Suite, the single public conducting engagement of his life.

In 1929 he conducted the premiere of three movements of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite in an arrangement for string orchestra.

After a private performance in which Poulenc played the orchestral parts on the piano, the piece's public premiere was on May 3, 1929 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, with Landowska playing the solo part and the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris conducted by Pierre Monteux.

Two prominent commanders, Faizal Maksum and Ibrahim Bay, continued to operate out of Afghanistan and conducted a number of raids into the Soviet republic of Tajikistan in 1929.

The Salzburg Festival mounted Der Rosenkavalier for the first time on 12 August 1929 in a production conducted by Clemens Krauss.

Paris, 17 May 1929, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteux.

Retroactive research conducted at the time the term " Dosage Index " first became common knowledge revealed that no horse having a Dosage Index of higher than 4. 00 had won the Kentucky Derby since at least 1929 ( a year chosen because by then the number of available of chefs-de-race on which to base the figures was thought to have reached a critical mass ), and that over the same period only one Belmont Stakes winner ( Damascus in 1967 ) had such a Dosage figure.

Schillinger wrote his First Airphonic Suite for Léon Theremin, who played the instrument at the premiere in 1929 with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff.

His reputation extended beyond England, and in 1929 he accepted an invitation to lecture at Johns Hopkins University to be conducted the following year.

The premiere recording of George Gershwin's symphonic poem An American in Paris, in 1929, was one of five conducted by Shilkret that eventually earned Grammy Awards.

In the following years, 1923 – 24, Andersson, in his capacity as a staff member of China's National Geological Survey, conducted archaeological excavations in the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai, again in collaboration with Chinese colleagues, and published numerous books and scientific papers on Chinese archaeology, many in the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, which he founded and launched in 1929, and where he published his most significant scientific reports on his own work.

Dr. Roy efficiently conducted the Civil Disobedience in Bengal in 1929 and prompted Pandit Motilal Nehru to nominate him Member of the Working Committee ( CWC ) in 1930.

Between 1925 and 1929 he served as Stokowski's assistant, conducted for the Philadelphia Grand Opera and directed the opera and orchestral departments at the Curtis Institute of Music.