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In May 1929, a lawyer named Horace Benbow, frustrated with his life, his spouse, and his stepdaughter, suddenly leaves his home in ( fictional ) Kinston, Mississippi, and sets out to hitchhike his way back to Jefferson, his hometown in Yoknapatawpha County, where his widowed sister Narcissa Sartoris lives with her son and her late husband's great-aunt ( Miss Jenny ).
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The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.
1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
* Leandro Alfonso Luis Ruíz y Moragas ( born 26 April 1929 ), officially recognized by Spanish Courts on 21 May 2003 as Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón y Ruíz Moragas
" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.
" ( May 1929 ), replacing his existing character Kull of Atlantis with his new hero, and retitling it " The Phoenix on the Sword ".
* 1929 – Donald May, American actor
Hawk's contract with Fox ended in May 1929, and he never again signed a long-term contract with a major studio but managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career.
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, by " Hergé ", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929, and ran until 8 May 1930.
In May 1929, the Sovnarkom issued a decree that formalised the notion of " kulak household " ( кулацкое хозяйство ).
He was survived by his second wife Dorothy ( Blanchard ) Jacobson ( m. May 13, 1929 ) and his three children, William Hammerstein and Alice Hammerstein Mathias by first wife Myra Finn, and James Hammerstein by Blanchard.
On May 20, 1929, the aviation divisions of the Peruvian army and navy were merged into the Peruvian Aviation Corps ( CAP, Cuerpo de Aviación del Peru ).
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During 1928 – 29 Prokofiev composed what was to be the last ballet for Diaghilev, The Prodigal Son, which was staged on 21 May 1929 in Paris with Serge Lifar in the title role.
* " Arch Bridge in Australia to Have Record Span ", Popular Mechanics, May 1929
* Tilley, Nannie May The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860 – 1929 ISBN 0-405-04728-2.
On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.
On May 26, 1929, Fox Film Corporation released Fox Grandeur News and Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 in New York City in the Fox Grandeur process.
* May 10 – Scotty Beckett, American actor ( b. 1929 )
* May 12 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter ( b. 1929 )
* May 10 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1929 )
* May 7 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1929 )
* May 20 – Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer ( d. 1929 )
May and lawyer
A lawyer traditionally starts an oral argument to any appellate court with the words " May it please the court.
Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.
He founded the Anti-Re-election Center in Mexico City in May 1909, and soon thereafter lent his backing to the periodical El Antireeleccionista, which was run by the young lawyer / philosopher José Vasconcelos.
His mother, Anita Frances ( née Levy ; later Livingston ; May 22, 1926 — July 1981 ), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.
The first known ancestor of multi-shot weapons was created by James Puckle, a London lawyer, who patented what he called " The Puckle Gun " on May 15, 1718.
Rudolph William Louis " Rudy " Giuliani, KBE (; born May 28, 1944 ) is an American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York.
* May 1 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer ( d. 2007 )
* May 29 – Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician ( b. 1896 )
* May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot ( b. 1725 )
* May 15 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer ( b. 1662 )
* May 24 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English lawyer ( d. 1769 )
James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.
After a whirlwind two-week romance in 1940, Niven married Primula Susan Rollo ( 18 February 1918, London – 21 May 1946, Beverly Hills, California ), the aristocratic daughter of a British lawyer.
John Cabell Breckinridge ( January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875 ) was an American lawyer and politician.
Archibald Cox, Jr., ( May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004 ) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U. S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy.
Hans Michael Frank ( 23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946 ) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s.
On Tuesday May 24, 1988, 36-year old Lynn Coleman, a lawyer from New Caney and a former Montgomery County assistant attorney, replaced Duval as the municipal court judge.
Sir William McDougall PC CB ( January 25, 1822 – May 29, 1905 ) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
* Frans Van Cauwelaert ( b. 10 January 1880 – 17 May 1961 ), politician and lawyer.
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro ( 30 November 1863 – 10 May 1897 ) was a Filipino nationalist, revolutionary and lawyer.
Jean Rey ( 15 July 1902 – 19 May 1983 ) was a Belgian lawyer and Liberal politician who became the second President of the European Commission.
Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra ( December 25, 1812 – May 21, 1882 ) was a Colombian lawyer, writer, and journalist of Colombia.
Pierre Louis Prieur ( Prieur de la Marne ) ( 1 August 1756 – 31 May 1827 ) was a French lawyer elected to the Estates-General of 1789.
Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville ( 1746 – 7 May 1795 ) was a French lawyer during the Revolution and Reign of Terror periods.
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