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 ).

In 1934, she earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Yale under the direction of Øystein Ore .< ref > Though some books, including Kurt Beyer's Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, reported that Hopper was the first woman to earn a Yale PhD in mathematics, the first of ten women prior to 1934 was Charlotte Cynthia Barnum ( 1860-1934 ).

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.

However, some of Bennett's initiatives, such as the Bank of Canada, which he founded in 1934, remain in place to this day, and the Canadian Wheat Board, remained in place until 2011 when the government of Stephen Harper abolished it.

Eisenstein married filmmaker and writer Vera Atasheva ( 1900 – 65 ) in 1934 and remained married until his death in 1948, though there is some speculation about his sexuality.

From 1934, women also competed in some athletics events.

On the band's tour through the segregated South in 1934, they avoided some of the traveling difficulties of African-Americans by touring in private railcars.

" The Nights have proved an inspiration to some modern Egyptian writers, such as Tawfiq al-Hakim ( author of the Symbolist play Shahrazad, 1934 ), Taha Hussein ( Scheherazade's Dreams, 1943 ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( Arabian Nights and Days, 1981 ).

It was in some competition with the Sturmabteilung ( SA ), but the SD was made the sole " Party information service " on 9 June 1934.

The 1729 version was the basis for several republications, often incorporating revisions, among them a widely used modernized English version of 1934, which appeared under the editorial name of Florian Cajori ( though completed and published only some years after his death ).

Although in 1933 / 1934 it first seemed that the transition could happen in harmony, at the 1934 congress in Stockholm some UEA functionaries were not re-elected.

Overall, world trade decreased by some 66 % between 1929 and 1934.

In 1934 he drew the Penrose triangle, some years before the Penroses.

It has some scenes that would be censored a few years later due to the Production Code that took effect in 1934.

* 1934: Just one of many notable storms in the 1930s, the storm of 9 – 11 May 1934 began in the far north-western Great Plains and proceeded east over the northern tier of states and parts of Canada and was notable for removing the vast majority of the soil deposited since the last Ice Age over some parts of its path.

Miller took this opportunity to submit some of his own articles under Perlès name, since only the editorial staff were permitted to publish in the paper in 1934.

Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's " The Gold Diggers ' Song ( We're in the Money )" from Gold Diggers of 1933 ( 1933 ), " Music Makes Me " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Irving Berlin's " Let Yourself Go " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), the Gershwins ' " Embraceable You " from Girl Crazy and " They All Laughed ( at Christopher Columbus )" from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

The Communications Act of 1934 is argued by some to have created monopolies, such as the case of AT & T case.

During his time as professor at Copenhagen University he spent some time working abroad, and in 1934 submitted a thesis entitled Nogle Undersøgelser over Sterinernes Biologiske Betydning ( Some investigations on the biological significance of the sterines ) to Copenhagen University, and received the degree of Ph. D. in biochemistry.

Sergei Kirov, head of the Party organisation in Leningrad, was killed in 1934 ; some believed his death was ordered by Stalin.

Chaplin began preparing the film in 1934 as his first " talkie ", and went as far as writing a dialogue script and experimenting with some sound scenes.

In Latvia, Baltic Germans remained the most politically active and organized ethnic group, although they lost some influence after Karlis Ulmanis's coup in 1934.

Inspired by a concert where he saw John Lee Hooker perform, he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic with a developing career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green ( c. 1934 – 1973 ), in a band called The Hipsters ( later The Langley Avenue Jive Cats ).

In 1934, he married Nusch ( Maria Benz ), a model who was considered somewhat of a mascot of the surrealist movement, whom Éluard had met through his friends Man Ray and Pablo Picasso.

Perry was good friends with fellow comic actor Will Rogers, and they appeared in four films together, David Harum ( 1934 ), Judge Priest ( 1934 ), Steamboat ' Round the Bend ( 1935 ), and The County Chairman ( 1935 ).

Gordonstoun was established in 1934 by Kurt Hahn after being asked by friends to give a demonstration in the UK of his " Salem system ".

Known by her friends as " Jackie ," and maintaining the Cochran name, she flew in the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934.

They became close friends and this lasted until his death in 1934.

In 1934 Christison was made a brevet lieutenant-colonel and returned the Staff College as an instructor ( GSO2 ) where he became good friends with a fellow instructor, Bill Slim.

Fields and Holloway first worked together on her film Sing As We Go in 1934 and the two remained close friends for the rest of their lives.

Dave Guard ( Donald David Guard, October 19, 1934 – March 22, 1991 ) and Bob Shane ( born Robert Castle Schoen, February 1, 1934 ) had been friends since junior high school at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii where both had learned to play ukulele in required music classes.

In 1934, Laurance married childhood friend Mary French, whose mother, Mary Montague French, and Laurance's mother were friends.

Frank Nelson Doubleday ( January 8, 1862 – January 30, 1934 ), known to friends and family as “ Effendi ”, founded the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897, which later operated under other names.

In 1936, Dill sought a divorce from his wife, the feminist suffragist Rosalie Gardiner Jones ; Dill claimed that Jones told his friends that he was " a political coward " for not seeking re-election in 1934, and that she buried dogs and garbage in the backyard.

Some of Myer's friends and business associates feared that the business was developing too fast, but the company was in a prosperous state and fast recovering from the effects of the depression, when Myer died suddenly on 5 September 1934, at age 56.

O ' Riordan was friends with left-wing inclined republicans such as Peadar O ' Donnell and Frank Ryan, and in 1934, he followed them into the Republican Congress-a short-lived socialist republican party.

Laird told the Allentown Morning Call in 1986 that he became close friends with former Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Oleg Troyanovsky, son of Aleksandr A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1934 to 1938, while at Swarthmore.

Accompanying George, who was by then chasing fast planes-in addition to his numerous women-Marthe flew everywhere: the United Kingdom ( she counted among her friends the Duke of Devonshire Edward Cavendish, the Duke of Sutherland George, Vita Sackville-West, Philip Sassoon, Enid Bagnold, Violet Trefusis, Lady Leslie and Rothschild family members ), Belgium, Italy ( where she met Benito Mussolini in 1936 ), the Italian colony of Tripolitania ( Libya ), Istanbul, the United States ( in 1934, as guests of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor ), Raguse, Belgrade and Athens.

Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.

The world's fastest bicycle is a recumbent bicycle but this type was banned from competition in 1934 by the Union Cycliste Internationale.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

* SS Belgian, a cargo ship in service with F Leyland & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1934

Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.

In 1934, driven from their mountain bases such as the Chinese Soviet Republic, the CPC forces embarked on the Long March across China's most desolate terrain to the northwest, where they established a guerrilla base at Yan ' an in Shaanxi Province.

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 ).

Cessna Aircraft Company closed its doors from 1932 until 1934 due to the state of the economy.

" The organisation Seed brought to the team proved effective and the Addicks gained successive promotions from the Third Division to the First Division between 1934 and 1936.

With help from foreign military advisers, Chiang's Fifth Campaign finally surrounded the Chinese Red Army in 1934.

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

In July 1934 this cap was increased by 50, 000 to include men from drought affected states of the mid-west.

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

The triangulation is named after Boris Delaunay for his work on this topic from 1934.

Three Russian instruments also appeared, Oubouhof's Croix Sonore ( 1934 ), Ivor Darreg's microtonal ' Electronic Keyboard Oboe ' ( 1937 ) and the ANS synthesizer, constructed by the Russian scientist Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1958.

He soon dropped out once more, and from 1934 to 1936 he was a secretary at the Albanian consulate in Brussels, attached to the personnel office of Queen Mother Sadijé.

From May 1934 until October 1935, Armstrong conducted the first large scale field tests of his FM radio technology from a laboratory constructed by RCA on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.

Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

To obtain large-scale federal money the mayor became a close partner of Roosevelt and New Deal agencies such as CWA, PWA and WPA, which poured $ 1. 1 billion into the city from 1934 – 39.

In four books written from 1921 to 1934, Soddy carried on a " quixotic campaign for a radical restructuring of global monetary relationships ", offering a perspective on economics rooted in physics — the laws of thermodynamics, in particular — and was " roundly dismissed as a crank ".

Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with his graduation from Pitt in 1933, he remained active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as its director from 1934 to 1938, while at the same time enrolling in the University of Pittsburgh Law School.

* Karl Dietrich Bracher " Stages of Totalitarian " Integration " ( Gleichschaltung ): The Consolidation of National Socialist Rule in 1933 and 1934 " pages 109 – 28 from Republic To Reich The Making of the Nazi Revolution Ten Essays edited by Hajo Holborn, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.