On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

* Reginald Fleming Johnston, Puyi's Scottish tutor from 1919 to 1924, published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934.

* Thomas A. Johnston ( 1848 – 1934 ), US educator

The following year, in 1934, James Stewart retired as General Manager of the Society and Johnston took over.

Despite opposition, in October 1934, Johnston was elected to the Executive of the Association of Collecting Friendly Societies.

William Johnston Tupper, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, from 1934 to 1940

Its graduates included two future Commissioners, Sir Joseph Simpson and Sir John Waldron ( both 1934 – 1935 ), three Deputy Commissioners, Sir Ranulph Bacon ( 1934 – 1935 ), Douglas Webb ( 1935 – 1936 ) and Sir John Hill ( who later also became HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary ; 1938 – 1939 ), and two Assistant Commissioners, Tom Mahir and Andrew Way ( both 1935 – 1936 ), as well as a number of Chief Constables of provincial forces, including Sir Edward Dodd ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Birmingham, Sir Eric St Johnston ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Oxfordshire, Durham, and Lancashire, and Sir John McKay ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Manchester, all three later HM Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Bernard Bebbington ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Cambridge and John Gaskain ( 1936 – 1937 ) of Cumberland and Westmorland, both later HM Inspectors of Constabulary, Alec Muir ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Durham, Albert Wilcox ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Hertfordshire, Sir Douglas Osmond ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Shropshire and Hampshire, Sir Derrick Capper ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Birmingham and the West Midlands, John Gott ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams ( 1938 – 1939 ) of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, West Sussex, and Sussex, and David Holdsworth ( 1939 ) of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley.

Undeterred by the loss, Johnston ran again and was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1934, serving for one term.

On December 29, 1934, the US Navy assumed jurisdiction over Kingman Reef.

In Guayaquil, in 1934 the widely read literary page of El Telégrafo proclaimed “ Salteador y guardián ,” illustrated by Eduardo Kingman, the best poem of the year ; this same poem was awarded the first prize at the First Exhibition of the Mural Poem ( Primera Exposición del Poema Mural ), in Quito.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.

Recumbent bicycles were banned from bike races in 1934 after Marcel Berthet set a new hour record in his Velodyne streamliner ( 49. 992 km on November 18, 1933 ).

The best known fictional representation of the Emperor Claudius were the books I, Claudius and Claudius the God ( published in 1934 and 1935 ) by Robert Graves, both written in the first-person to give the reader the impression that they are Claudius ' autobiography.

In 1934, the club completed a 13 – 0 record but were defeated by the New York Giants, and in 1942 the club completed an 11 – 0 record but were defeated by the Redskins.

The toads were sent to the other islands, and more than 100, 000 toads were distributed by July 1934 ; eventually over 600, 000 were transported.

From 1934 to 1953, three congresses were held ( a breach of the party rule which stated that a congress must be convened every third year ), one conference and 23 Central Committee meetings.

Four years later, in 1934, new Central Committee departments were established which were independent from the Department for Personnel.

However, the leadership was not opening up ; Kamenev and Zinoviev were arrested in 1932 ( or in the beginning of 1933 ), and set free in 1934, and than rearrested in 1935, accused of being part of an assassination plot which killed Sergei Kirov.

Over the years, membership in the Central Committee increased ; in 1934 there were 71 full members, in 1976 there were 287 full members.

By January 1934, the second year of the CCC program, 300, 000 men were enrolled.

* 1934 – 35: Junkers Motorenwerke in Germany started production of the Jumo aviation diesel engine family, the most famous of these being the Jumo 205, of which over 900 examples were produced by the outbreak of World War II.

The respective first accurate glosses for Taoism were " douizm ; tou -" ( Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed., 1934 ) and " Also Daoism and with pronunc.

The Germans were also fond of large destroyers, but while the initial Type 1934 displaced over 3, 000 tons, their armament was equal to smaller vessels.

During the Era of Silence political parties were banned and the parliament was not in session between 1934 and 1938 as the country was ruled by decree by Konstantin Päts, who was elected as the first President of Estonia in 1938.

Cultural reasons were also a factor in countries like China and Japan, where silents co-existed successfully with sound well into the 1930s, indeed producing what would be some of the most revered classics in those countries, like Wu Yonggang's The Goddess ( China, 1934 ) and Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But ... ( Japan, 1932 ).

Giving Expressionist-affiliated filmmakers particularly free stylistic rein were Universal horror pictures such as Dracula ( 1931 ), The Mummy ( 1932 )— the former photographed and the latter directed by the Berlin-trained Karl Freund — and The Black Cat ( 1934 ), directed by Austrian émigré Edgar G. Ulmer.

When Hitler's internal purge of the party, the Night of the Long Knives, came in 1934, a large number of Freikorps leaders were targeted for killing or arrest, including Ehrhardt and Röhm.

The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.

After 1934, the running of Germany's concentration camps was placed under the total authority of the SS and an SS formation known as the SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ), under the command of Theodor Eicke.

5 ( 1 ): 579 ( 1934 ) "... it seems that once in a while the recording equipment is struck by very extensive showers of particles, which causes coincidences between the counters, even placed at large distances from one another.

On 30 June 1934, Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), arrived at Bad Wiessee where he personally placed Ernst Röhm and other high-ranking SA leaders under arrest.

In July 1934, the leaders of the Party, dominated by the " Twenty-Eight Bolsheviks ", a militant group formed in Moscow by Wang Ming and Bo Gu, forced Mao from the Politburo of the Communist Party in Ruijin and placed him briefly under house arrest.

In August 1934, with the Red Army depleted by the prolonged conflict, a spy, Mo Xiong, placed by Zhou Enlai in the KMT army headquarters in Nanchang brought news that Chiang Kai-shek was preparing a major offensive against the Communist capital, Ruijin.

With the increase of Stalinist repression and especially after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934, Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest in his house near Moscow.

The Hamilton County Historical Society placed a marker on the site of the William Conner farm in 1927 and Eli Lilly, purchased William Conner's farm in 1934 and began restoring the farm.

In 1934 the college was renamed Biltmore College and placed in the control of a board of trustees.

When Reichspräsident Hindenburg died in 1934, his coffin and that of his wife, who had died in 1921, were placed there despite his wishes to be buried at his family plot in Hanover.

A 500-word essay giving the history of the United States by Nebraska student William Andrew Burkett was selected as the college-age group winner in a 1934 competition, and that essay was placed on the Entablature on a bronze plate in 1973.

The Production Code of 1934 imposed guidelines on the Motion Picture Industry and placed specific restrictions on the content films could reference with sexual innuendos.

In any case, at this point two competing myths emerged as to why Bolivia had lost: one, advocated by important civilian political elites ( but not President Tejada ), placed all the blame on the personalistic, undisciplined Bolivian commanders, ever-eager to increase their own individual ambitions and even willing to overthrow the President of the Republic ( as indeed happened in 1934 ) rather to expend all its energy in the conduct of the war.

* 1934 Junkers placed under house arrest at Bayrischzell and founds Research Institute Prof. Junkers GmbH.

Camp coaches were placed at Blue Anchor from 1934 – 1939 and at Stogumber from 1935 – 1939, which encouraged holiday makers to use the train to reach these rural locations.

Scarlett's upbringing resembled that of Mitchell's maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens ( 1844 – 1934 ), who was raised on a plantation in Clayton County, Georgia ( where the fictional Tara was placed ), and whose father was an Irish immigrant.

The sculptor Fred Parhad ( 1934 -) created a larger-than-life statue of Ashurbanipal, which was placed on a street near the San Francisco City Hall main square in 1988.

The Archaeological Museum was established in 1934 and placed in the 18th century Casieri palace.

Arminius was buried in the Pieterskerk at Leiden, where a memorial stone on his behalf was placed in 1934.

Therefore when the labor movement revived in the early 1930s the Communist league was well placed to put its ideas into action in the Twin Cities and through their influence in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters the union rapidly grew after an historic dispute in 1934.

*, a tugboat purchased in 1917, renamed Mendota ( YT-3 ) in 1920, then to Muscotah in 1932, and placed out of service in 1934

The US National Firearms Act of 1934 placed a $ 200 tax on machine guns making exports of the Schnellfeuer guns to the US impractical.

It is said that when in spring 1934 the Mercedes-Benz team placed its new Mercedes-Benz W25 on the scrutineering scales prior to the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring, it allegedly recorded.

The better preserved sphinx was returned to Istanbul in 1924, and was placed on display in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, whereas the other remained in Germany, and had been on display at the Pergamon Museum since 1934.

In 1934, the EMI engineers Blumlein and McGee filed for patents for television transmitting systems where a charge storage plate was shielded by a pair of special grids, a negative ( or slightly positive ) grid lay very close to the plate, and a positive one was placed further away.