She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the U. S. Army, proposed the creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, supported the elimination of state poll taxes ( which effectively discriminated against poor blacks and whites ), and supported drafting federal anti-lynching laws.

A general election was eventually called for February 1948, Lynch topped the poll for the Cork Borough constituency and became a Fianna Fáil TD in the 13th Dáil.

For these reasons, the people voted for communists in the 1948 elections, the last democratic poll to take place there for a long time.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1948 due in part to his opposition to the poll tax.

Though ranked # 2 in the Associated Press poll at the end of the regular season, the Wolverines defeated the USC Trojans by a score of 49 – 0 in the 1948 Rose Bowl game, and were selected as the nation's # 1 team by a 226 – 119 margin over Notre Dame in an unprecedented post-bowl Associated Press poll.

* 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.

The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.

Population censuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina were conducted in 1879, 1885, 1895, 1910, 1910, 1921, 1931, 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981 and 1991.

In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices, but since the plebiscite demanded by the UN was never conducted, relations between India and Pakistan soured, and eventually led to two more wars over Kashmir in 1965 and 1999.

He conducted the orchestra in its first concert in London since 1911, at the Royal Albert Hall in 1948, and in two concerts at the Royal Festival Hall during the Festival of Britain in 1951.

Between 1948 and 1952, he conducted ten concerts telecast on NBC, including a two-part concert performance of Verdi's complete opera Aida starring Herva Nelli and Richard Tucker, and the first complete telecast of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

On December 3, 1948, Toscanini conducted Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor ; Dvořák's Symphonic Variations ; and Wagner's original overture to Tannhäuser.

Agencies of the Norwegian government have conducted Hydrographic surveys of the waters of Svalbard throughout the 20th century, namely " Norges Svalbard-og Ishavsundersøkelser " since 1928, its successor, the Norwegian Polar Institute since 1948, and the Norwegian Hydrographic Service since 1984.

Following rumors that King Abdullah I of Transjordan was reopening the bilateral negotiations with Israel that he had previously conducted clandestinely with the Jewish Agency, the Arab League — led by Egypt — decided to set up the All-Palestine Government in Gaza on 8 September 1948, under the nominal leadership of al-Husseini.

In 1948, she also acquired the great filly Busher as a broodmare from a spectacular auction conducted by Louis B. Mayer.

The tests were conducted successfully in 1948 and 1949.

Operation Hiram was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

He conducted a church choir until after the war, when he took over the Auckland Choral Society in 1947, and the Auckland String Players in 1948.

Following a recording by Opéra-Comique forces in March 1948 Louis Musy created the first post-war production in Paris, conducted by André Cluytens.

Nolan also conducted an open affair with Sunday Reed at this time although he married John Reed's sister, Cynthia in 1948, after Sunday refused to leave her husband and marry him.

In 1948, German physicians who conducted deadly or debilitating experiments on concentration camp prisoners underwent criminal proceedings in the Nuremberg Trials.

In March 1948 Bourvil took part in the complete recording of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens, playing the four ' servant ' roles.

The US government already has checks in place to dissuade perception management conducted by the state towards domestic populations, such as the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which " forbids the domestic dissemination of U. S. Government authored or developed propaganda ... deliberately designed to influence public opinion or policy ".

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It is most famous as the temporary location from March 7, 1946 through March 14, 1948 of the Bikini Atoll's indigenous population while the United States government conducted the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests.

* Zebra, an event of Operation Sandstone, a nuclear weapon test series conducted by the United States in 1948

In 1932 he conducted the first archaeological excavation under Jewish auspices in Israel at Beit She ' arim ( the largest catacombs ever found in Israel ) and in 1948 was the first archaeologist to receive a permit granted by the new State of Israel ( Tell Qasile, 1948 ).

The party joined the Cominform at its inception in 1948 and conducted expulsions against suspected " Titoites " following the expulsion of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from the alliance.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

the Yugoslav Claims Fund the sum of $17,000,000 being the amount paid by the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia pursuant to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 ; ;

The Secretary of State shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the total cost of adjudication, not borne by the claimants, attributable to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

* 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.

* 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

Bethlehem was administered by the British Mandate from 1920 to 1948.

In 1948 the Quebec government passed a law requiring all highways and local roads to be cleared of snow ; the Bombardier company's sales fell by nearly half in one year.

One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which includes Roman Catholics.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.

The basic theory of nucleosynthesis was developed in 1948 by George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher and Robert Herman.

It was then ratified in 1948 by the 9th CGPM which adopted a new name for this unit, the candela.

Then in 1948, another initiative banned the use of seine nets ( devices already used by Native Americans, and refined by later settlers ) altogether.

In 1948, television began to acquire commercial momentum and by the following year there were nearly a hundred television transmitters in American cities.

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

* Johnny Belinda ( 1948 film ) by Elmer Blaney Harris.