His source, the Welsh folklorist Gwenith Gwynn, assumed that the custom had once existed on the basis of conversations with elderly Welsh people during the 1920s, none of whom had ever seen such a practice.

The local Republicans protested bitterly and, once took statehood out of their platform, not bringing it back until the early 1920s.

Also in 1949, a new version of a 1920s blues song, " Ain't Nobody's Business " was a # 4 hit for Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five once again made the top 5 with " Saturday Night Fish Fry ".

Raeder and Wegener were once friends, having began their careers as ensigns in 1894 abroad the cruiser Deutschland, but their differing concepts of future strategy turned them into the most bitter of enemies, and the two officers were to spent much of the 1920s waging a war in print over what the Navy should or should not had done in the First World War and what were the correct lessons of the recent conflict for the future.

In the late 1920s Matisse notably once again engaged in active collaborations with other artists.

In Italy, whose once vibrant film industry had become moribund by the late 1920s, the first talkie, La Canzone dell ' amore ( The Song of Love ), also came out in October ; within two years, Italian cinema would be enjoying a revival.

The South Texas Oil Boom included wells drilled in Zapata County in the early 1920s through the work of Laredo industrialist Oliver Winfield Killam, a Missouri native who once served as an Oklahoma state legislator.

Automobile traffic became increasingly important once the Dixie Highway located through the county, largely running parallel with the railroad tracks, during the 1920s.

Willow River was once a thriving town which drew many tourists from the Minnesota Twin Cities in the 1920s with its large amusement park and fair grounds.

He became a pioneer of the American movie industry in the 1920s and the 1930s, and was the President and General Manager of the Comerford Theaters, Inc., which once owned and operated 78 theaters, mainly in eastern Pennsylvania, but also in New York and Maryland.

The 1920s structure once served as a railway hotel.

From the 1870s to the 1920s, transportation needs for Grapeview ( once known as Detroit ) and other communities along Case Inlet were once served by a small flotilla of steamboats.

In the 1920s, space had once again become insufficient and in 1929 the foundation stone was laid for a new school at Østervold.

During the 1920s, entertainer Al Jolson and president Calvin Coolidge were semi-frequent visitors to the village — Jolson once performed a solo for three hours at the Pontiac Theater on Broadway.

During the 1920s there were concerns about the long queues of cars and lorries at the Mersey Ferry terminal so once Royal Assent to a Parliamentary Bill was received construction of the first Mersey Road Tunnel started in 1925, to a design by consulting engineer Sir Basil Mott.

He was voiced by Carman Maxwell and Johnny Murray during the 1920s and 1930s, and once by Don Messick during the 1990s.

Alphonse Picou at least once followed fellow musicians up north to Chicago about 1917-1918 ( and possibly briefly to New York City in the early 1920s ) but said he didn't like it up north and spent the bulk of his career in his home city.

* During the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin once went to a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike competition.

In the early 1920s, the party operated under the principle of Democratic Centralism, whereby the leading body of the party was the Congress, meeting at least once a year.

The 1920s and 1930s wit Alexander Woollcott, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, once said of him: " There isn't anything the matter with Levant that a few miracles wouldn't cure.

According to the landowner Larry Shirley, the cavern was once open to the public as an attraction in the 1920s, and there is still the foundation of the old gift shop at the base of the mountain.

During the early 1920s he practised successfully at the Bar, before winning Spen Valley at the general election in 1922, and in 1922-24 he served as deputy leader of the Liberal Party, a role he relinquished when Asquith once again lost his seat in Parliament and Lloyd George took over the chairmanship of the Liberal MPs.

The CP had once had a good deal of support in the internecine struggles within the United Mine Workers in the 1920s, when John L. Lewis used every weapon available to defeat his rivals for union leadership while wages and working conditions in the industry grew worse.

The problem is sometimes known as season cracking after it was first discovered in brass cartridge cases used for rifle ammunition during the 1920s in the Indian Army.

Conflicts arose between the Indian community ( mostly sugarcane labourers ) and the Franco-Mauritians in the 1920s, leading to severalmainly Indiandeaths.

In the 1920s she attended the Santa Fe Indian School and in the 1930s Dorothy Dunn's studio of the same school.

The Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti stayed at the Carrington in the 1920s when he was under the tutelage of the Theosophical Society.

During the 1920s, Osage County was the site of the infamous Osage Indian murders.

While some houses in Indian Hills were built in the 1920s, the bulk of the development occurred after World War II and into the 1950s.

Shastri joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.

Though he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, he was still virtually self-taught when he began writing music of his own, but in the early 1920s he had lessons from Arthur Bliss ( then in Santa Barbara ) and the senior American composer and researcher of American Indian ( then called " Red Indian ") music, Arthur Farwell.

One of the first bands to craft a distinctly American sound in response to the British Invasion was The Beach Boys ; while not a folk rock band themselves, they directly influenced the genre, and at the height of the folk rock boom in 1966 had a hit with a cover of the 1920s West Indian folk song " Sloop John B ", which they had learned from The Kingston Trio, who, in turn, had learned it from The Weavers.

* From the 1920s, Gurkhas could also receive King's Indian Commissions, and later full King's or Queen's Commissions, which put them on a par with British officers.

While Indian shared in the business boom of the 1920s, it had lost its Number One position in the US market to Harley-Davidson.

Indian Scouts in police service, 1920s

Between 1962 and 1967, Burt Munro from New Zealand used a modified 1920s Indian Scout to set a number of land speed records, as dramatised in the 2005 film The World's Fastest Indian.

She also created the Indian Welfare Committee of the General Federation of Women ’ s Clubs, working as a researcher for it through much of the 1920s.

During the 1920s she devoted a great amount of effort to promoting a pan-Indian movement that would unite all of America's tribes in the cause of lobbying for citizenship rights and in 1924 saw the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act which granted citizenship rights to many though not all indigenous peoples.

It was at this stage in the late 1920s that he formed an alliance with Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.

Thanks to the efforts of the Carlisle Indian School football program, which ended with the school's closure in 1918, there were numerous native Americans in the NFL through the 1920s, most famously Jim Thorpe.

The fifth influence was Hollywood, where musicals were popular from the 1920s to the 1950s, though Indian filmmakers departed from their Hollywood counterparts in several ways.

As late as the 1920s, the trails were used by Native Americans from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation to reach huckleberry-picking grounds near Table Rock.

Restrictions for cannabis as a drug, often called Indian Hemp in documents before the 1940s, started in local laws in New York already in 1860 and was followed by local laws in many other states and by state laws in the 1910s and 1920s.

A representative criticism of this sort issued from an Indian scholar in the 1920s:

Indian Game ( Cornish ) may have been crossed into the Barnevelders in Britain sometime after their importation into Britain in the 1920s.