David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment !, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not necessarily equivalent, and the most useful notion, introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929, involves the existence of certain finite families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

* Jimmy Bonthrone, footballer and manager: born Kinglassie, Fife 16 June 1929 ; played for East Fife 1947-58, Dundee 1958-60 ; manager, East Fife 1963-69, Aberdeen 1971-75 ; general manager, East Fife 1980-94 ; married ( two sons ); died Kirkcaldy, Fife 7 June 2008.

* January 14 – Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general, who served as the 10th President of Portugal ( d. 1929 )

** Bramwell Booth, Salvation Army general ( d. 1929 )

However the results at the 1929 general election were disappointing: the Liberals increased their support only to 60 or so seats, while Labour became the largest party for the first time.

In the general election of 1929 the party contested its first parliamentary constituency, Caernarvonshire, polling 609 votes, or 1. 6 % of the vote for that seat.

From 1929, they all had a joint gathering called Ghenerala Estraro ( general board ).

In 1929 Lady Dorothy began a lifelong affair with the Conservative politician Robert Boothby, an arrangement which scandalised high society but remained unknown to the general public.

In 1929, at the age of five, J. Robert " Bob " Beyster moved to Grosse Ile where his father was a general contractor.

* Edwin W. Rawlings ( 1904 – 1997 ) – Born in Milroy, he served in the United States Air Force from 1929 to 1959, rising to the rank of four-star general ; after his retirement from military service, he went on to become president and board chairman of General Mills, based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

" Hadley cites, in particular, the six-day Delius festival at the Queen's Hall in 1929 under Beecham's general direction, in the presence of the composer in his bath-chair.

Most of these were inserted in the Index at a time when the Index itself stated that the prohibition of someone's " opera omnia " ( all his works ) did not cover works whose contents did not concern religion and were not forbidden by the general rules of the Index, but this explanation was omitted in the 1929 edition, an omission that was officially interpreted in 1940 as meaning that thenceforth " opera omnia " covered all the author's works without exception.

* Brüder brothers, Director: Werner Hochbaum, Germany 1929 – On the general strike in the port of Hamburg, Germany in 1896 / 97

After his promotion to lieutenant general in 1929, he was assigned command of the IJA 5th Division and later transferred to the IJA 4th Division in 1932.

For the 1929 general election the Unionists replaced the proportional representation system blamed for their bad performance in 1925.

* Northern Ireland general election, 1929

Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, politician, and the 26th Prime Minister of Japan from 20 April 1927 to 2 July 1929.

With Skelton's support Dunglass secured the Unionist candidacy at Coatbridge for the 1929 general election.

In 1929, Weyl introduced the concept of the vierbein into general relativity.

* United Kingdom general election, 1929, " the flapper election "

Before that, simply as brigadeiro, it existed from 1707 to 1864 and again from 1929 to 1947, not being considered a general rank.

After the stock market crash of 1929, Congress passed a series of acts regulating the securities markets in general and mutual funds in particular.

A leading proponent of disciplined Gothic Revival architecture in general and Collegiate Gothic in particular, Cram is most closely associated with Princeton University, where served as Supervising Architect from 1907 to 1929, during a period of major construction.

In 1929, he lost the election for mayor to incumbent Democrat Jimmy Walker by a landslide.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

At the 1929 election, Lyons entered Federal politics, winning the seat of Wilmot in Labor's landslide victory under James Scullin.

Keynes in a pamphlet to support Lloyd George in the 1929 election.

From 1929 to 1982, the PRI won every presidential election by well over 70 percent of the vote — margins that were usually obtained by massive electoral fraud.

Curtis ' leadership abilities were demonstrated by his election as United States Senate Republican Whip from 1915 to 1924 and Majority Leader from 1925 to 1929.

Reelected in Labor's sweeping victory of 1929 election, he expected to be named to James Scullin's cabinet, but disapproval of his drinking kept him on the back bench.

When Labor won the 1929 election, he became Assistant Minister for Trade and Customs in the Scullin government.

Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister following the 1929 House-only election, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.

The loss of eight Unionist seats in that election caused great acrimony and in 1929 the system was changed to first-past-the-post for all territorial constituencies, though STV was retained for the university seats.

The electorate of the area was mixed, and the constituency was not seen as a safe seat for any party ; at the 1929 election Labour had captured it from the Unionists.

After liberal regional SVP groups including Federal Councillors Widmer-Schlumpf and Samuel Schmid founded a new Conservative Democratic Party, the SVP was left in opposition for the first time since 1929, but returned into the Council with the election of Ueli Maurer on 10 December 2008, who regained the seat previously held by Schmid, who had resigned.

In 1929, after his election to chairman of the Centre Party's faction in the Reichstag, his party's agreement to the Young Plan was made conditional on paying for it through tax increases and budget cuts.

He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941 ; after the death of U. S. Senator Pat Harrison, Doxey won a special election to his seat, and served in the United States Senate from 1941 until 1943.

In January 1927, Pinchot testified before the committee, producing several thousand illegal paper ballots, and in 1929, Vare's election credentials were rejected by Senate, and the seat was declared vacant.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

" However, it was as " Jim Rob Wills ," paired with Herman Arnspiger, that he made his first commercial ( though unissued ) recordings in November 1929 for Brunswick / Vocalion.

The Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring.

In the 2012 Sight and Sound poll, the critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ) the 8th best film ever made.

Other astronomers of the period also made suggestions for obtaining uniform time, including A Danjon ( 1929 ), who suggested in effect that observed positions of the Moon, Sun and planets, when compared with their well-established gravitational ephemerides, could better and more uniformly define and determine time.

She made her film debut, under her real name, in the backstage musical Song of Love ( 1929 ).

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

Enrolled at the Ginnasio Giulio Cesare in 1929, he made friends with Luigi ‘ Titta ’ Benzi, later a prominent Rimini lawyer ( and the model for young Titta in Amarcord ( 1973 )).

Traffic formerly drove on the left ; the change to driving on the right was made at 5. 00 a. m. on 16 June 1929.

Gernsback, who edited Radio News until 1929, made use of the magazine to promote his own interests, including having his radio station ’ s call letters on the cover starting in 1925.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

She made a series of films for Arnold Fanck, and one of them, The White Hell of Pitz Palu ( 1929 ), co-directed by G. W. Pabst, saw her fame spread to countries outside of Germany.

Pacelli was made a Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo on 16 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI, and within a few months, on 7 February 1930, Pius XI appointed him Cardinal Secretary of State, responsible for foreign policy and state relations throughout the world.

Ploughing engine Heumar, made by the Ottomayer company ( Germany ), used in pairs with a balance plough. Built 1929, 220 PS, 21 tons.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

* In Finnish language first translations were made by Toivo Lyy in 1929.

In 1929 Tajikistan was made one of the component republics of the Soviet Union – Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic ( Tajik SSR ) – and it kept that status until 1991.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

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Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).