Disgusted with the king's involvement in his dictatorship, the urban population voted for republican parties in the municipal elections of April 1931.

Warren soon gained a statewide reputation as a tough, no-nonsense district attorney who fought corruption in government ; a 1931 survey voted listed him as the best district attorney in the country.

It used diesel-powered generators, and served the town until 1931 when the town board voted to purchase electricity from a large power company. Swanton Watertower

After the IRA Army Council voted down the idea, MacBride launched a new movement, Saor Éire (" An Organisation of Workers and Working Farmers ") in Dublin in 1931.

In 1931 she was voted one of America's twelve greatest living women.

He was unofficially voted the NL's most " useful " player by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( which did not inaugurate its official MVP award until 1931 ).

In 1931, he was voted the Most Valuable Player in the National League after batting. 311 with 10 home runs and 114 RBI.

When the Board voted on the issue in 1931, both released time and credit for Bible study were retained.

However, when faced with dwindling resources during the Great Depression, the college's trustees voted to close the school in 1931.

In 1931, the Massachusetts legislature voted to allow the officers who had struck to be rehired.

As a result, in 1929, 1930 and 1931 the Swedish parliament voted a sum of 2900 kronas for instructional Esperanto courses.

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.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

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.

It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931.

1931 saw a further narrowing of the criteria for awarding a stolen base.

* Walter Benz ( b. 1931 ), German mathematician known for his work on geometric planes

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.

In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.

In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.

Procedures for testing hypotheses about probabilities ( using finite samples ) are due to Ramsey ( 1931 ) and de Finetti ( 1931, 1937, 1964, 1970 ).

With the advent of sound technology, Chaplin immediately adopted the use of a synchronised soundtrack — composed by himself — for City Lights ( 1931 ).

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

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.

The six-year period after 1931 — when the cane toad was most prolific, and the white-grub saw dramatic decline — saw the highest-ever rainfall for Puerto Rico.

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.

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

* A Free Soul ( 1931 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Co. for a new car model, spelling it as " Datson " to indicate its smaller size when compared to the existing, larger DAT car.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

From 1931 to 1934, Mao helped establish the Soviet Republic of China and was elected Chairman of this small republic in the mountainous areas in Jiangxi.

A movement towards the establishment of a republic began in 1930 and Alfonso fled the country on 14 April 1931.

However, in 1931 local and municipal elections produced victories ( particularly in urban areas ) for candidates favoring an end to the monarchy and the establishment of a republic.

The revolution and the republic which took a " hostile " approach to the issue of church and state separation, like that of the French Revolution, the Spanish Constitution of 1931 and the Mexican Constitution of 1917.

The Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; ) was an autonomous republic established in Soviet Russia, with its capital at the Volga port of Engels ( until 1931 known as Pokrovsk ).

The conflict between the Soviet government and Georgian nationalists deepened after the so-called Lykhny Assembly on March 18, 1989, when several thousand Abkhaz demanded secession from Georgia and restoration of the Union republic status of 1921 – 1931.

The republic established was anticlerical and had a " hostile " approach to the issue of church and state separation, like that of the French Revolution, and the future Spanish Constitution of 1931 and Mexican Constitution of 1917.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

Berry, Brailsford and Daly in 1931 and Nakamura in 1958 reaffirmed this.

The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.

Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.

Campbell studied the records of 172 school board members in twelve western cities over the period of 1931 - 40 and found `` little or no relationship between certain social and economic factors and school board competence '', as judged by a panel of professional educators who studied the voting records on educational issues.

T. V. Barker, who developed the classification-angle system, was about to begin the systematic compilation of the index when he died in 1931.

In March, 1931, 22 out of 28 members of a committee of the Federal Council of Churches ratified artificial methods of birth control.

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

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

Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.

* Two People ( 1931 ) ( Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.

Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.

Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi.

* 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Bengali-American spiritual teacher, poet, and painter ( d. 2007 )

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer ( d. 2007 )

* 1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver ( b. 1931 )