From 1936 until 1949 Bentley was president of the Detection Club and contributed to both of their radio serials broadcast in 1930 and 1931 and published in 1983 as The Scoop and Behind The Screen.

Bentley Motors, builders of racing and sports cars, built a factory at Oxgate Lane in 1920, and Cricklewood remained their headquarters until their bankruptcy in 1931.

An attempt was made to buy the bankrupt Bentley company in 1931 but Napier was outbid at the last minute by Rolls-Royce.

Jericho is famous throughout the world as the birthplace and lifelong home of Wilson " Snowflake " Bentley ( 1865 – 1931 ), an American farmer who photographed over five thousand snow crystals.

Between 1924 and 1931, when Bentley failed, Vanden Plas built the bodies for over 700 of their chassis.

Named for the scientist-artist, Wilson Bentley ( 1865 – 1931 ) who first photographed snowflakes in the nineteenth century in nearby Jericho, Vermont.

* One Hundred and one Ballades ( 1931 ) with E. C. Bentley G. K. Chesterton C. K.

Wilson Alwyn " Snowflake " Bentley ( February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931 ), born in Jericho, Vermont, is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes.

A decade before the classic era, a story of Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets ( 1931 ), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with Sternberg.

In the years 1931 to 1934 Kenyon worked simultaneously at Samaria, then under the administration of the British Mandate for Palestine, with John Crowfoot and Grace Crowfoot.

He was assigned to the new aircraft carrier in 1931, where he worked on radio communications, then in its nascent phase, with the carrier's airplanes.

And it worked: When Lawrence applied 2, 000 volts of electricity to his makeshift cyclotron on January 2, 1931, he got 80, 000-electron volt protons spinning around ( at about 1 % the speed of light ).

While Calthrop began the task of designing hundreds of costumes and dozens of sets, Coward worked on the script, which he completed in August 1931.

Alec Waugh, who met him through Harold Monro, described him as embittered by the war, and offered Douglas Goldring as comparison ; but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter ( 1931 ), rather than letting it poison his life.

After receiving his Ph. D. at the University of Vienna in 1931 he worked in Munich.

In Sassari, with the painter Mario Delitala, also from Orani, Nivola had his artistic start, and soon the two worked together for the decoration of some spaces in the local university. He then moved to the Italian mainland, and in 1931 entered the ISIA, the state institute for Artistic Industry in Monza, near Milan.

In late 1931, Miller was employed by the Chicago Tribune ( Paris edition ) as a proofreader, thanks to his friend Alfred Perlès who worked there.

Between 1931 and 1934 he worked " obsessively " on " The Bible ", even going to Amsterdam in order to carefully study the biblical paintings of Rembrandt and El Greco, to see the extremes of religious painting.

Throughout this time O ' Brien worked with Hoyt on a series of cancelled projects included Atlantis for First National studio, Frankenstein, and Creation for RKO Pictures, which was finally cancelled in 1931 with only 20-minutes of effects footage to show for an estimated $ 120, 000 development cost.

He left MGM for Paramount Pictures in 1928, where he worked until 1931, when he joined RKO as Head of Production.

He then worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Copenhagen, from 1928 to 1931, with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

During the Second Cartel des gauches, in February 1931, he worked in the cabinet of the Minister of Air, the Radical-Socialist and Freemason Jean-Louis Dumesnil.

Maximillian Oppenheimer ( 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany – 26 March 1957, Hamburg, Germany ) — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany ( 1931 – 33 ), France ( 1933 – 40 ), the United States ( 1947 – 50 ), and France again ( 1950 – 57 ).

He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran ( literally In This Case, Rather Cod-Liver Oil ).

In 1967, de Renta became the third husband of Françoise de Langlade ( 1931 – 1983 ), an editor-in-chief of French Vogue who once worked for the fashion house of Elsa Schiaparelli.

Starting in 1931, Taylor worked as book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian, and from 1957 he was a columnist with the Observer.

Also, in 1931 the US Army worked on a mobile antiaircraft machine mount on the back of a heavy truck having four. 30 caliber water-cooled machine guns and an optical director.

Lodge worked in the newspaper business, before being elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1931.

worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes ( 1927 ), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ), and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion.

After graduation, he worked as an actuary and a statistician at National Institute of Statistics in Rome and, from 1931, the Trieste insurance company Assicurazioni Generali.

In 1931, a newly minted MD, married Carmen García Cobián and began postdoctoral study at the London National Institute for Medical Research ( NIMR ), where he worked with Sir Henry Dale.

' Before the demise of the paper in 1931, many of the best reporters in America worked for it.

Wilder and Lane worked on this project, thus producing " Little House in the Big Woods ", which was accepted by Harper & Row in late 1931.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

Buffalo City Hall | City Hall in Buffalo, New York | Buffalo, New York ; John Wade with George Dietel, built 1929 – 1931

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

However, legislating for alterations to the Act is a complex process, since the act is a common denominator in the shared succession of all the Commonwealth realms and the Statute of Westminster 1931 acknowledges by established convention that any changes to the rules of succession may be made only with the agreement of all of the states involved, with concurrent amendments to be made by each state's parliament or parliaments.

Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

According to her diaries, Vol. 1, 1931 – 1934, Nin shared a bohemian lifestyle with Henry Miller during her time in Paris.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

Prior to 1931, as soon as the first necessary run to win the game scored, the play was over, and the batter was credited only with the number of bases needed to drive in the winning run.

Soon, however, the Liberals faced another divisive crisis when a National Government was proposed to fight the 1931 general election with a mandate for tariffs.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

However, in 1931, gambling was legalized throughout the state of Nevada, along with Las Vegas and Reno.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Tombaugh discovered nearly 800 asteroids during his search for Pluto and years of follow-up searches looking for another candidate for the postulated Planet X. Tombaugh is also credited with the discovery of comet C / 1931 AN, though its orbit is currently unknown.

Such observations of Heidegger, along with a critique of Max Scheler, were put into a lecture Husserl gave to various Kant Societies in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Halle during 1931 entitled Phänomenologie und Anthropologie.

Along with the Statute of Westminster, 1931 this changed the way the British parliamentary monarchy ruled the overseas dominions, moving from a colonial British Empire towards a new structure for the interaction between the Commonwealth Realms and the Crown.

The first electrically amplified guitar was designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, General Manager at National Guitar Corporation with Paul Barth who was Vice President.

Rickenbacker offered a cast aluminum electric steel guitar, nicknamed " The Frying Pan " or " The Pancake Guitar ", developed in 1931 with production beginning in the summer of 1932.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

Popular films in the genre such as Little Caesar ( 1931 ), The Public Enemy ( 1931 ), and Scarface ( 1932 ) demonstrated that there was an audience for crime dramas with morally reprehensible protagonists.