Mrs. Dunkel admitted the slaying and said that the son-in-law became her lover after the death of her daughter in 1934.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

Afghanistan became member of the Universal Postal Union in 1928, and the postal administration elevated to the Ministry of Communication in 1934.

* Commonwealth of the Philippines — formed in 1934, and became independent in 1946.

The new constitution became effective on May 1, 1934, and swept away the last remnants of democracy and the system of the first Austrian Republic.

Among his leading films was It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), which became the first film to win all five top Oscars, including Best Picture.

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

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.

After the death of von Hindenburg in August 1934, the Reichstag appointed Hitler Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ); he thus became head of state as well as head of government.

In early 1934, Hitler and other Nazi leaders became concerned that Röhm was planning a coup d ' état.

With the SA thus neutralised, the SS became an independent organisation from 20 July 1934, responsible only to Hitler, and Himmler's title of Reichsführer-SS became the highest formal SS rank.

After emigrating from Germany in 1933, in 1934, Marcuse immigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen in 1940.

After the demise of Der Sturm Gallery in 1924 he ran an advertising agency called Merzwerbe, which held the accounts for Pelikan inks and Bahlsen biscuits, amongst others, and became the official typographer for Hannover town council between 1929 and 1934.

The Soviet Union became a member on 18 September 1934, and was expelled on 14 December 1939 for aggression against Finland.

He became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1934.

Maltese became an official language of Malta in 1934, alongside English, when Italian was dropped from official use.

Relegated again in 1931, Manchester United became a yo-yo club, achieving its all-time lowest position of 20th place in the Second Division in 1934.

The convention became operative on December 26, 1934.

Education was transformed, under Lenin, the education system took allowed relaxed discipline in schools that became based upon Marxist theory, but Stalin reversed this in 1934 with a conservative approach taken with the reintroduction of formal learning, the use of examinations and grades, the assertion of full authority of the teacher, and the introduction of school uniforms.

Although he was never declared a professional, Nurmi's suspension became definite in 1934 and he retired from running.

When Göring transferred full authority over the Gestapo to Himmler in April 1934, it immediately became an instrument of terror under the SS's purview.

* St. Louis Blues, member of American Football League ( 1934 ) that became the Kansas City Blues in midseason 1934

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 1930 Alder was appointed reader for chemistry at Kiel, and promoted to lecturer in 1934.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

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.

* Woman in the Dark ( 1934 ) also available as Woman In The Shadows, based on a Dashiell Hammett story

*" A Martian Odyssey " ( 1934 ), a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

In 1934, Igor Stravinsky based his melodrama Perséphone on Persephone's story.

This story led to comic strips featuring Buck Rogers ( 1929 ), Brick Bradford ( 1933 ), and Flash Gordon ( 1934 ).

The Sidewise Award acknowledges the best works in this subgenre ; the name is taken from Murray Leinster's 1934 story " Sidewise in Time.

Elements of Poe's story were, however, used in the 1934 film Maniac.

The awards take their name from the 1934 short story " Sidewise in Time " by Murray Leinster, in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.

1934 also saw the release of The Scarlet Empress, another filmed version of Catherine the Great's story, this time with Louise Dresser in the role of Elizabeth.

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

The second draft was more faithful to Hammett's original story and changed the setting to 1934.

The story had originally been issued as a supplement to the British Weekly, an evangelical newspaper, in 1933 but came to prominence when it was reprinted as the lead piece of the April 1934 issue of The Atlantic.

Little, Brown published the first printing of this story in book form in June 1934.

Manual permanently merged with the Louisville Girls High School in 1950 and moved into their Gothic style three story building, built in 1934.

He was the head of 20th Century Fox ’ s bureau of literary development ( story department ) from 1934 to 1942.

In 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the Edgar Allan Poe story " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

The best of his short stories belong to the early intensely ratiocinative period, and both The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1934 ) and The New Adventures ( 1940 ) are as absolutely fair and totally puzzling as the most passionate devotee of orthodoxy could wish ... ( E ) very story in these books is composed with wonderful skill.

Sir Alain Arthur Bates CBE ( 17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003 ) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the " kitchen sink " drama A Kind of Loving.

The story moves backwards in nine scenes from 1934 to 1916, as Niles achieves success by, bit-by-bit, compromising his integrity and principles.

Berlevåg is also the place for the fictional story " Babette's Feast " by the Danish author Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen published in the anthology " Seven Gothic Tales " 1934.

" Silent Snow, Secret Snow " ( 1934 ) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction.

The film tells the story of Henry Henry, an unemployed London street musician, and the title was a " playful tribute " to Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII which had been Britain's first ever Academy Award for Best Picture nominee in 1934.

Whitney, a sculptor and philanthropist, wanted custody of the young heiress and soon a famous custody trial became the lead story of 1934.