* 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( b. 1844 )

* October 5 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( d. 1934 )

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

" Astaire maintained this policy from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ) onwards ( until overruled by Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Finian's Rainbow ( 1968 ), Astaire's last film musical ).

Richard Francis Xavier Manning, known as Brennan Manning ( New York, April 27, 1934 ) is an American author, friar, priest, contemplative and speaker.

* Charles Francis Colcord ( 1859 – 1934 ), rancher, businessman and Marshal for Oklahoma

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His other dramatic works include Angels and Ministers ( 1921 ), Little Plays of St. Francis ( 1922 ) and Victoria Regina ( 1934 ) which was even staged on Broadway.

After Weston's 1926 election to President-General, he was succeeded by Frederick Augustus Toote ( 1929 ), Clifford Bourne ( 1930 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1931 – 1934 ), Henrietta Vinton Davis ( 1934 – 1940 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1940 – 1961 ), Captain A L King ( 1961 – 1981 ) and Milton Kelly, Jr. ( 1981 – 2007 ).

* David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Earl of Warwick, 8th Earl Brooke ( 1934 – 1996 )

The planning skills of Dwight J. Francis and Western Massachusetts Winter Sports Council, including input from Williams, Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Massachusetts State Colleges, Greenfield Outing Club, and the Green Mountain Club, resulted in the CCC building the Thunderbolt Ski Trail in 1934 ( named for its resemblance to a Revere Beach, MA, roller coaster ).

* George Francis ( footballer ) ( born in 1934 ), English football ( soccer ) player

Charles Francis Jenkins ( August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934 ) was an American pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies.

* Louis Francis Salzman ( General Editor 1934 – 49 )

The St. Francis Dam was not rebuilt, though Bouquet Reservoir in nearby Bouquet Canyon and Castaic Dam in the town of Castaic were subsequently built in 1934 and 1973, repectively, as replacements for the St. Francis Dam.

The generating plant at Ardnacrusha is composed of three vertical-shaft Francis turbine generators ( commissioned in 1929 ) and one vertical-shaft Kaplan turbine generator ( commissioned in 1934 ) operating under an average head of 28. 5 metres.

* Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton ( b. 1934 )

* Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill ( 1864 – 1934 ) ( created Viscount Churchill in 1902 )

* Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill ( 1864 – 1934 )

Even before 1934, several candidates ran and were elected under the Liberal-Progressive banner ( Frederick Sandy of Victoria South was first elected as a UFO MLA in 1919, was defeated in 1923 and returned to serve as a Liberal-Progressive from 1926-1929 ; Merton Elvin Scott of Oxford South served as a Liberal-Progressive MLA from 1926 to 1929 and UFO MLA David Munroe Ross of Oxford North was re-elected as a Liberal-Progressive in 1926 and 1929 ), however it was only in the 1934 election that a formal alliance between the Progressives and Liberals began, returning four Liberal-Progressive MLAs ( Nixon, Douglas Campbell of Kent East, Roland Patterson of Grey North and James Francis Kelly of Muskoka ).

Duna played Guninana, the Eskimo wife of Francis Lederer, in Man of Two Worlds ( 1934 ).

The 1934 Ashes series began with the notable absence of Larwood, Voce and Jardine.

According to her diaries, Volume One, 1931 – 1934, Nin abandoned formal schooling at the age of sixteen years and later began working as an artist's model.

In 1934, Dwane Wallace, with the help of his brother Dwight, took control of the company and began the process of building it into what would become a global success.

She began collaborating with Vertov, beginning as his editor but becoming assistant and co-director in subsequent films, such as Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ), and Three Songs About Lenin ( 1934 ).

Much of the 20th century was dominated by one José María Velasco Ibarra, whose 5 presidential terms began with a mandate in 1934 and final presidency ended in 1972.

In 1934 the British military began to make strides toward radar ( which also uses the magnetron ) under the direction of Dr Wimperis, culminating in the operation of the first radar station at Bawdsey in August 1936.

In 1934 Armstrong began working for RCA at the request of the president of RCA, David Sarnoff.

When Stalin's purge of the Communist Party and government began in 1934 after the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov, Beria ran the purges in Transcaucasia.

Following the loss, the Senators sank all the way to seventh place in 1934, and attendance began to fall.

Beginning in April 1934, and at Hitler's request, Heydrich and Himmler began building a dossier on Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leader Ernst Röhm in an effort to remove him as a rival for party leadership.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

Bride's Magazine began to be published in 1934 as a newspaper advertising insert called So You're Going to Get Married!

Typex Mk III was a portable version powered by a handle. In August 1934, Lywood began work on a machine regardless, authorised by the RAF.

In 1934 Hubert began dating Muriel Buck ; she was a bookkeeper and graduate of local Huron College.

It was not until 1934 that her career began to take off.

It Happened One Night was one of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934.

After Rizzoli began producing films in 1934, Zavattini received his first screenplay and story credits in 1936.

However, they allowed him to become a retoucher, and Zapf began his four-year apprenticeship in February 1934.

He began his racing career in Argentina in 1934, driving a 1929

In 1932, Jewel acquired the Chicago unit of Loblaw Groceterias, Inc., then a chain of 72 self-service stores, as well as four Chicago grocery stores operated by the Middle West Stores Company, and began operating them under the name Jewel Food Stores In 1934, Jewel Food Stores merged with Jewel Tea Company.

At the age of seven, he began caddying at The Homestead in Hot Springs ; he worked as an assistant pro at The Homestead at 19, and turned professional in 1934.

After sessions with Ted Lewis ( 1930 ), Jack Teagarden ( 1931 ), and Billy Banks's Rhythmakers ( 1932 ), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.

The most well known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934.

The withdrawal began in early October 1934.

Although in the United States informal discrimination and segregation have always existed, the specific practice called " redlining " began with the National Housing Act of 1934, which established the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ).