It would be turned into a hit for Warner Bros. in 1931 ; the following year, Burnett was hired to write dialogue for Scarface, while Beast of the City was adapted from one of his stories.

The prospect for tranquility was further advanced in 1931 when Ferrera and his insurgents were killed, while leading one last unsuccessful effort to overthrow the government, after government troops discovered their hiding place in Chamelecon.

He led the AL by driving in 183 runs ( 3rd all-time, behind Hack Wilson in 1930 and Lou Gehrig in 1931 ), and in extra base hits ( 103 ), while batting. 337 with 200 hits.

Rockne died in a plane crash in Kansas on March 31, 1931, while en route to participate in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame.

* In the Marx Brothers ' 1931 comedy Monkey Business, Harpo joins a live Punch & Judy show ( performed by an uncredited Al Flosso, a famous American Punchman ) while trying to avoid capture by the crew members of the ship he has stowed away on.

In 1931, Nicholson and Mayall calculated its mass, based on its supposed effect on the gas giants, as roughly that of the Earth, while in 1949, measurements of Pluto's diameter led to the conclusion that it was midway in size between Mercury and Mars and that its mass was most probably about 0. 1 Earth mass.

In 1931, Fall became the first cabinet member in history to be sent to prison for actions while holding office.

His father died a few months after the Second Republic's birth in 1931, while Pujol was completing his education as a poultry farmer.

Zhou " acknowledged " his mistakes in compromising with Li in January 1931 and offered to resign from the Politburo, but was retained while other senior CCP leaders, including Li Lisan and Qu Qiubai, were removed.

Lyons served as acting Treasurer from August 1930 to January 1931 while Scullin was in Britain for the Imperial Conference.

At the 1931 election, Lyons and the UAP offered stable, orthodox financial policies, and portrayed an image of putting national unity above class conflict ( given credibility by Lyons, a working-class man leading a party made of largely of middle-and upper-class conservatives ), while Labor remained split between the official party and the Langites.

Amendments made to the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in 1964 extended the prevailing wage provisions to cover fringe benefits, while several increases were made to the federal minimum wage.

For example, in Love ( 1927 ) a title card reads, " I like to be alone "; in The Single Standard ( 1929 ) her character says, " I am walking alone because I want to be alone "; in Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ) she says to a suitor, " This time I rise ... and fall ... alone "; in Inspiration ( 1931 ) she tells a fickle lover, " I just want to be alone for a little while "; in Mata Hari ( 1931 ) she says to her new amour, " I never look ahead.

By 1931 Hazel had been diagnosed with cancer and tuberculosis, while William also contracted tuberculosis resulting in blindness in one eye and then the other.

He started working as a clown full-time in 1931, and it was only after years of attempting to persuade the management that he was able to switch from a white face clown to the hobo clown that he had sketched ten years earlier while working at an art firm.

Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.

The completeness of sentential calculus was proved by Paul Bernays in 1918 and Emil Post in 1921, while the completeness of predicate calculus was proved by Kurt Gödel in 1930, and consistency proofs for arithmetics restricted with respect to the induction axiom schema were proved by Ackermann ( 1924 ), von Neumann ( 1927 ) and Herbrand ( 1931 ).

Daniel Ellsberg ( born April 7, 1931 ) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U. S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Howard is reported to have had an affair with Tallulah Bankhead when they appeared on stage ( in the UK ) in Her Cardboard Lover ( 1927 ); Merle Oberon, while filming The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and Conchita Montenegro, with whom he had appeared in the film Never the Twain Shall Meet ( 1931 ).

* Junior Johnson ( born 1931 ), in the 1950s, Johnson became a legend in the rural South by consistently outrunning law-enforcement officials in auto chases while delivering homemade liquor ( moonshine ) to his customers.

Benn's contact with leading politicians of the day dates back to his earliest years ; he met Ramsay MacDonald when he was five, David Lloyd George when he was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi in 1931, while his father was Secretary of State for India.

Unfortunately, ill health plagued both the Clarke brothers, and worn down by the pace of their work, and perhaps the toxic chemicals used in stained glass production, both died within a year of each other — Harry second in early 1931, of tuberculosis while trying to recuperate in Switzerland.

Both the Soviets and the British played the circumstances to their advantage: the Soviets getting aid in dealing with Uzbek rebellion in 1930 and 1931, while the British aided Afghanistan in creating a 40, 000 man professional army.

The artist Colin McCahon ( 1919 – 1987 ) lived in Oamaru in 1930 – 1931, attending the Middle School.

In 1929 her husband was appointed director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens and from 1931 until his death in 1936 ( they had no children ) Powell spent part of each year in Greece, frequently attending excavations, where her husband was working.

They were married on 4 June 1931 and during their honeymoon attending the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, Christie and his wife developed the idea of bringing professional opera to Glyndebourne, although Christie's original concept was for it to be similar to the Bayreuth Festival.

After graduating in 1931, Ruffo taught in the university's school of engineering and coached the freshman football team to help pay for attending law school.

After attending secondary school in Essen and joining the Hitler Youth in 1925, d ' Alquen entered the NSDAP at the age of seventeen and was an SA man and Youth Leader in the Party between 1927 and 1931.

Born in Marion County, Florida, he graduated from Ocala High School before attending Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia from 1931 to 1932.

Between 1931 and 1935, around 150 Oxford undergraduates were attending Oxford Group meetings every lunchtime.

He graduated from Lowell High School in 1931 and from Rutherford College in 1933, attending the University of South Carolina from 1933 to 1935 and graduating from Duke University Law School in 1937.

After attending Ankara Atatürk Lisesi and Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey between 1931 and 1943, he went to Germany to study medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

The final took place on 27 June 1931, with 70, 000 spectators attending to see Mick the Miller take on " The Black Express " Ryland R. The two dogs were both matched as joint favourites for the final at odds of 13 – 8.

In 1931, Crawford, Clurman and Strasberg announced the formation of The Group Theatre and invited 28 young actors who had been attending Clurman's talks to join them for a twelve-week long summer of training and rehearsal at Brookfield Center, Connecticut.

In 1930 she was awarded a travelling scholarship, and chose to study with Egon Wellesz in Vienna, where she remained till 1931, attending the opera ‘ almost every night ’.

After attending school Witt followed his father's trade, working as a textiles salesman from 1925 until 1931.

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

** from 1 October 1922 Walvisbaai's administration ( still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, thence a Mayor ) was also assigned to South West Africa Mandate

In 1931, Meher Baba made the first of many visits to the West, where he attracted many followers.

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.

Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).

In 1931 Harrison established an 11 acre ( 45, 000 m² ) summer retreat in West Hills, New York, which was a very early example and workshop for the International Style in the United States, and a social and intellectual center of architecture, art, and politics.

It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

In 1931, architect Noel L. Miller converted three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village – one of which had been the location of the " Studio Club " – to be the museum's home as well as a residence for Whitney.

Within a matter of years he had followed this up with a string of further works: The Forest Cultures of Northern Europe: A Study in Evolution and Diffusion ( 1931 ), The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery ( 1932 ) and Neolithic Settlement in the West of Scotland ( 1934 ).

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

Since 1931, West New York has been governed under the Walsh Act form of New Jersey municipal government by a five-member commission.

In 1931, a dam was constructed approximately three miles west of town on the West Fork of the Trinity River, creating Lake Bridgeport.

He also starred in The Bat Whispers ( 1930 ) and Corsair ( 1931 ), both directed by West.

* September 5 – The posthumous world première of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 ( for the left hand ), composed in 1931, takes place in Berlin, performed by Siegfried Rapp and the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Rich.

He had his initial success as a stage actor in classical roles, first winning stardom during a successful two seasons at the Old Vic Theatre from 1929 to 1931 where his performances as Richard II and Hamlet were particularly acclaimed, the latter being the first Old Vic production to be transferred to the West End for a run.

London's West End staged two successful revivals in 1915 as well as in 1931, and several Broadway revivals enjoyed great success as well, the first being mounted a mere year after the closing of the original production in 1901 followed by another notable foray into the public eye three years later.

* 1931 ( 3 ) Florida West Coast Open, La Gorce Open, Lannin Memorial Tournament

* West of Scotland Cup: 1931 – 32, 1950 – 51, 1955 – 56, 1961 – 62, 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71, 1989 – 90, 2009-2010, 2011-2012

The existence of the GRU was not publicized during the Soviet era, although documents concerning it became available in the West in the late 1920s and it was mentioned in the 1931 memoirs of the first OGPU defector, Georges Agabekov, and described in detail in the 1939 autobiography ( I Was Stalin's Agent ) of Walter Krivitsky, the most senior Red Army intelligence officer ever to defect.