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.

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.

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

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.

Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.

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.

He was canonized and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on December 16, 1931 by Pope Pius XI and patron saint of the sciences.

In 1931, during the refurbishment of Vilnius Cathedral, the forgotten sarcophagus of Alexander was discovered, and has since been put on display.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

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.

The proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic was much celebrated in the city on 14 April 1931.

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

It was granted town status and given its current name in 1931.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.

The sacrifice fly as a statistical category was instituted in 1908, only to be discontinued in 1931.

By 1931, the National Socialist German Workers ' Party was starting to gain influence and control in German politics.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

Beginning in 1931 and continuing to the present day, the rule was changed to require the umpire to judge based on the point where the ball cleared the fence.

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.

* Everyday Mechanics — from 1929 ; changed to Everyday Science and Mechanics as of October 1931 issue

* Science and Mechanics — originally Everyday Mechanics ; changed to Everyday Science and Mechanics in 1931.

Between 1929 and 1931 the USSR changed from the seven-day week to a five-day week.

In 1931, after its brief experiment with a five-day week, the Soviet Union changed to a six-day week.

The title of the award was eventually changed to Best Picture for the 1931 awards.

The Aviation Corporation of the Americas changed its name to Pan American Airways Corporation in 1931.

This was only temporary, though, and the club changed its name to Tor in 1931.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

Biscayne Park was incorporated in 1931 as the Town of Biscayne Park and in 1933 changed its name to the Village of Biscayne Park.

The Roosevelt Memorial Highway ( now Highway 101 ), carved out of the rock of Cape Perpetua in 1931, changed all this by opening up a route from the town of Florence.

However, as the US Post Office had already established a station at London, Texas in Kimble County, the town changed its name to " New London " in 1931.

The name continues to be used for corporate entities ( for example, in East Africa ), but in 1931 the religion formally changed its name worldwide from International Bible Students Association to Jehovah ’ s witnesses.

The team's name was changed to Donostia Club de Futbol in 1931, with the advent of the Second Spanish Republic, but changed back to Real Sociedad after the Spanish Civil War in 1939.

It was changed back to Yerba Buena Island on June 3, 1931.

The dictatorship formally ended in 1931 when the king imposed a more unitarian constitution transferring executive power to the king, and changed the name of the country to Yugoslavia.

Over the course of his 51-year federal parliamentary career ( and an additional seven years prior to that in a colonial parliament ), Hughes changed parties five times: from Labor ( 1901 – 16 ) to National Labor ( 1916 – 17 ) to Nationalist ( 1917 – 30 ) to Australian ( 1930 – 31 ) to United Australia ( 1931 – 44 ) to Liberal ( 1944 – 52 ).

The enactment by the British Parliament of the Statute of Westminster in 1931 changed the legal framework as understood by the British.

The company's image and target market were quickly changed, marked particularly by the introduction in 1931 of the first Bedford truck, which was Chevrolet based, along with the low-cost two-litre Vauxhall Cadet.

It was changed to a black label in 1931 and then became blue in 1935.

In July 1931, the team's official name on the league records was changed from the Stapleton Football Club, Inc., to Staten Island Stapes.

The Xinhua press agency was started in November 1931 as the Red China News Agency and changed to its current name in 1937.