The longest lasting of the ten governments between 1924 and 1932 was that of General Carlos Ibáñez, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship.

After the downfall of the second Labour government, the 1931 General Election was held.

Albert Einstein arrived on the Caltech campus for the first time in 1931 to polish up his Theory of General Relativity, and he returned to Caltech subsequently as a visiting professor in 1932 and 1933.

* Xiang Zhongfa, General Secretary 1928 – 1931

* Wang Ming, acting General Secretary 1931

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American jurist and 75th United States Attorney General

A ( perhaps apocryphal ) story is sometimes told of Beatty's retirement, that he canvassed in uniform in support of Conservative candidates in dockyard constituencies, presumably in the 1929 or 1931 General Elections.

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.

In 1944, General Jorge Ubico ’ s thirteen-year dictatorship ( 1931 – 44 ) of Guatemala was overthrown by the October Revolutionaries, a group of Guatemalan nationalists — politically dissident military officers, university students, and liberal professionals — who were politically empowered, by the almost-simultaneous revolutions that deposed superannuated dictatorships in Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador.

General elections in Britain traditionally take place on a Thursday ; the last general election not on a Thursday was that of 1931.

General elections were held in 1931 to replace the government, with Republican and anticlerical candidates winning the majority of votes.

In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U. S .- based General Motors ( GM ) automotive group in 1931.

The firm became a subsidiary of the US-based General Motors ( GM ) automotive group in 1931, and resultantly retitled General Motors-Holden's Ltd.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

It became a majority-stake subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation in 1929 and has been a wholly owned subsidiary since 1931.

In March 1929, General Motors ( GM ), impressed by Opel's modern production facilities, bought 80 % of the company, increasing this to 100 % in 1931.

On January 7, 1931, Summerall ’ s successor, General Douglas MacArthur, confidentially reopened work on a new design, involving the Washington Commission of Fine Arts.

However, no further action was taken after the intervention of the 1931 General Election.

One of the few stirs arose when the Canadian Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett, considered the Duke for Governor General of Canada in 1931 — a proposal that King George V rejected on the advice of his ministers.

Both Governor General of Canada Lord Tweedsmuir and Mackenzie King hoped that the King's presence in Canada would demonstrate the principles of the Statute of Westminster 1931, which gave full self-government to the British Dominions and recognised each Dominion as having a separate crown.

In 1931, the US Army Air Corps and General Electric tested a sonic altimeter for aircraft, which was considered more reliable and accurate than one that relied on air pressure, when heavy fog or rain was present.

Hockey Night in Canada has its origins in the General Motors Hockey Broadcast which transmitted Saturday night hockey games of the Toronto Maple Leafs beginning in November 1931 over the Canadian National Railway radio network.

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.

It was home to the Fleetwood Metal Body company, an automobile coachbuilder purchased by Fisher Body and integrated into General Motors in 1931.

The world's first university-based executive education program — the Sloan Fellows program — was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, himself an 1895 MIT graduate, who was chairman of General Motors and has since been credited with creating the modern corporation.

Another CRBC program, one which originated on the CNR's network in 1931, was Hockey Night in Canada under the names Saturday Night Hockey, General Motors Hockey Broadcast and then, starting in 1934, The Imperial Oil Hockey Broadcast.

He was brought to Australia in 1934 by General Motors to head up its Australian subsidiary General Motors Holden ( GMH ), which it had acquired in 1931.

In April 1931, De Vaux-Hall Motors had started production of an automobile that was based on the defunct Durant ( automobile ).

Viking was an automobile manufactured by General Motors ' Oldsmobile division for model years 1929 to 1931.

The Oakland was a brand of automobile manufactured between 1907 – 1909 by the Oakland Motor Car Company of Pontiac, Michigan, ( formerly a carriage-maker called Pontiac Buggy ) and between 1909 and 1931 by the Oakland Motors Division of General Motors Corporation.

Fleetwood was purchased by Fisher Body in 1925, moved to Detroit, and integrated into General Motors in 1931.

In a series of transactions between 1929 and 1931, the Opel family sold their business, Adam Opel AG, to General Motors Corporation, and it became a subsidiary.

The Morris Isis name was first briefly used by Morris Motors LImited on a six-cylinder car made from 1929 to 1931.

In 1931, the car business of AJS was purchased but it was too late to turn the company into profitability and, in 1932, Crossley Motors dissolved the partnership with Willys-Overland and WOC went into voluntary liquidation in 1933.

As another tribute to his lasting legacy, the same fleet of cars Edison deployed on the Lackawanna in 1931 served commuters until their retirement in 1984, when some of them were purchased by the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, " Glenmont " in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey, which he had purchased in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina.

The Copper Queen operated in Douglas from 1904 until 1931, when the Phelps Dodge Corporation purchased the Calumet and Arizona Company and took over their smelter.

The freeholds of Nos 1-4 St Margaret's Road and 74-82 Woodstock Road were purchased from St John's College in 1931 and 1932 respectively.

At South Shore, Bill Harrah purchased the Stateline Country Club which had stood since 1931 and built Harrah's Tahoe.

Spielplatz was founded by the Macaskies in 1929 after visiting Fiveacres and they purchased their own site in the village in Lye Lane, The Sun-Folk Society started in 1931.

In 1931 Aeolian purchased the American Piano Company, makers of the Ampico.

In 1931 the Navy finally purchased several systems, but this was to be his only real sale.

It remained privately owned until August 25, 1931 when the Board of Incorporators, a group of 39 businessmen, purchased Ferris Institute from the old stockholders and selected a board of trustees from their number to govern the school.

In 1931 he purchased an Avro Avian he named the Southern Cross Minor, to attempt an Australia to England flight.

In 1931, Bernarr Macfadden purchased the assets of the Mackinnon-Fly magazine publishers ( in Canada ), which gave him the pioneering sci-fi pulp Amazing Stories and several other titles.

In 1931, Texaco purchased the old woolen mill site and established a research center there.

Westside began being purchased in 1928 and was designated Hiawatha National Forest in 1931.

In 1931 Universal Pictures purchased distribution rights to Studie Nr.

In 1931 Mr A. Pearce Jenkin, a leading citizen of Redruth purchased the house and gave it as a gift to the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The college purchased its first piece of real estate with a new women's dormitory building at 373 Commonwealth Ave. and started intramural sports in 1931 with the organization of volleyball games.

When Grant Morden died in 1934 the estate was purchased at auction by Charles Boot, who had recently inherited a large construction firm from his father Henry Boot, who died in 1931.

He formed The Drumstick Company in 1931 to market the product, and in 1991 the company was purchased by Nestle.

Jones first visited Fruitlands, an Augusta arboretum and indigo plantation since the Civil War era, in the spring of 1930, and he purchased it for $ 70, 000 in 1931, with the plan to design a golf course on the site.

In 1911, Ganong Bros. purchased the bankrupt White Candy Company in Saint John, New Brunswick and operated a factory there until 1931.

The small town drugstore made its first step towards fame when it was purchased by Ted Hustead in 1931.

* Braunes Haus – The Brown House -- national HQ of the NSDAP in Munich, Germany, opened 1931 ; Hitler purchased the Barlow Palace which was the old Italian embassy when Bavaria was an independent state.

Shortly thereafter, the government purchased the land in 1929, followed by the completion of the first buildings in 1931.