Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated ( though only one since the early 1930s ): Wings ( 1927 / 28 ), Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ), and Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ).

In the early 1930s, C. M. " Dad " Joiner brought in the Daisy Bradford # 3 Discovery Well six miles northwest of Henderson.

Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton ( 5 February 1908 – January 1969 ) were a pair of conjoined twins who toured in the U. S. sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s.

During the 1930s she formed a friendship with Daisy Bates and later claimed to be mostly responsible for Daisy Bates ' The Passing of Aborigines, although this is a contentious issue.

Located inside the Charlie Richard Outdoor Sports Facility, Liston Stadium, built in the 1930s, is home to football, track, and select soccer matches.

His career began at Standard Oil of Indiana in the 1930s and included increasingly important research and management positions at Mobil Oil, Houdri Process Company, Air Products and Chemicals, and the M. W.

* Products of the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ), which built the facilities, roads and lakes during the 1930s

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

After the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s, Bartók refused to give concerts in Germany and broke with his publisher there.

Costume jewelry came into being in the 1930s as a cheap, disposable accessory meant to be worn with a specific outfit.

The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

Similarly, " use your loaf ", meaning " use your head ", derives from " loaf of bread " and also dates from the late 19th century but came into independent use in the 1930s ..

After World War II ( with early references, in ironical use, from the late 1930s ) the diminutive figurines introduced as lawn ornaments during the 19th century came to be known as garden gnomes.

In the 1920s and 1930s, however, all his commissions came from private individuals, and it was not until the 1950s that he was able to put his progressive ideas about social housing into practice, in projects in Utrecht and Reeuwijk.

Both his parents were born in Berlin but came to Great Britain in the 1930s as refugees from the Nazis because his father was Jewish.

In the final prosperous year, 1929, there were 279, 678 immigrants recorded, but in 1933, only 23, 068 came to the U. S. In the early 1930s, more people emigrated from the United States than to it.

On one occasion, in the early 1930s, in a comment that came back to haunt him in later years, Munk expressed admiration for Hitler ( for uniting Germans ) and wished that the same kind of unifying figure could be found for Danes.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

By the early 1930s there were so many diplomats living and working in the area that it came to be redesignated the " Diplomatic Quarter ".

Prohibition generally came to an end in the late 1920s or early 1930s in most of North America and Europe, although a few locations continued prohibition for many more years.

The precursors of rhythm and blues came from jazz and blues, which overlapped in the Late-1920s, 1930s through the work of musicians such as The Harlem Hamfats, with their 1936 hit " Oh Red ", as well as Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker.

Subsequent attempts to forge an agreement in the 1930s came to naught as the Ontario government of Mitchell Hepburn, along with Quebec, got in the way.

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, the gradual decline of steel and more especially coal, coupled with too little investment in service industries and light industry ( which came to predominate in Flanders ), started to tip the balance in the other direction.

The first lighting used on an airport was during the latter part of the 1920s ; in the 1930s approach lighting came into use.

In the " red 1930s ", many young economists favoured Marxist views, even in Cambridge, and while Keynes was engaging principally with the right to try to persuade them of the merits of more progressive policy, the most vociferous criticism against him came from the left, who saw him as a supporter of capitalism.

Calls for just such an individual to be made viceroy came again in the late 1930s, but it was not until Vincent Massey's appointment by King George VI in 1952 that the position was filled by a Canadian-born individual ; this practice continued until 1999, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Adrienne Clarkson, a Hong Kong-born refugee to Canada.

Whatever the Music Department's growth in quantity, breadth of musical offering, and reputation amongst both musicians and the general public, the whole question of financial return came to a head in the 1930s.

At a meeting on 6 January 1943 Hitler savaged Raeder, complaining that he had spent millions of Reichsmarks in the 1930s building a fleet that proved useless when war came, instead of spending the money on building U-boats, which had proven far more useful in the war.

Similarly, through the 1920s and 1930s the roadgoing sports / GT car started to emerge as distinct from fast tourers ( Le Mans had originally been a race for touring cars ) and sports cars, whether descended from primarily roadgoing vehicles or developed from pure-bred racing cars came to dominate races such as Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

Terms such as “ Okies ” and “ Arkies ” came to be known in the 1930s as the standard terms for those who had lost everything and were struggling the most during the Great Depression.

Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, and was one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state.

During the 1920s and 1930s, he was the editor of the literary magazine Literatura Mondo (" Literary World "), which became home to an influential group of authors who came to be collectively known as the Budapest School.

Gumede ( president of the ANC ) proposed cooperation with the Communists in a bid to revitalise the organisation, but he was voted out of power in the 1930s.

During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

Because of very little jobs available to the teens coming out of eighth grade there was an increase in high school attendance in the 1930s.

Melvin Purvis was a prime example ; he was one of the most effective agents in capturing and breaking up 1930s gangs and received substantial public recognition, but a jealous Hoover maneuvered him out of the FBI.

In the early 1930s, criminal gangs carried out large numbers of bank robberies in the Midwest.

However, the two split in the late 1930s, when Bose agreed to seek the help of fascists in driving the British out of India.

He attended George Washington University in Washington, D. C. at the start of the 1930s, before dropping out and beginning his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories.

However, in the 1930s Gödel's incompleteness theorems convinced many mathematicians that mathematics cannot be reduced to logic alone, and Karl Popper concluded that " most mathematical theories are, like those of physics and biology, hypothetico-deductive: pure mathematics therefore turns out to be much closer to the natural sciences whose hypotheses are conjectures, than it seemed even recently.

In the 1920s and 1930s Mormons began migrating out of Utah, a trend hurried by the Great Depression, as Mormons looked for work wherever they could find it.

" The critique that mercantilism was a form of rent-seeking has also seen criticism, as scholars such Jacob Viner in the 1930s point out that merchant mercantilists such as Mun understood that they would not gain by higher prices for English wares abroad.

Like many of his movies, it is richly allusive and generates a lot of its humour and charm out of its references to American film of the 1930s and 1940s.

Adonism largely died out in the 1930s, but remained an influence on the German occult scene.

Further out are larger detached and semi-detached houses from the 1930s.

817 Ukrainian civilians ( out of some 100, 000 ) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers ' Project — part of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA )— sent out interviewers to collect accounts from various groups, including surviving witnesses of the Civil War, slavery, and other major historical events.

" The Anti-Slavery Society estimated there were 2 million slaves in Ethiopia in the early 1930s out of an estimated population of between 8 and 16 million.

During the 1930s and all through World War II, British, Japanese, Italians and Germans developed and extensively used oxygen rebreathers in order to fit out the first frogmen.

Spear hunting fell out of favour in most of Europe in the 18th century, but continued in Germany, enjoying a revival in the 1930s.

It is has the false showings in the 1930s exams, brothers and sisiters of the same fahther and mother would be graded out like dogs as one with little Indian blood and the other with 1 / 2 or more.

Particularly hardest hit by economic problems were the north of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales ; unemployment reached 70 % in some areas at the start of the 1930s ( with more than 3 million out of work nationally ) and many families depended entirely on payments from local government known as the dole.

Fascism, a movement which grew out of post-war angst and which accelerated during the Great Depression of the 1930s, gained momentum in Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), sparked by Nazi Germany's aggressive expansion at the expense of its neighbors.

Bryan's emphasis on agrarian issues, both in his speech and in his candidacy, may have helped cement voting patterns which kept the Democrats largely out of power until the 1930s.

After a period of alliance with France, Belgium tried to return to neutrality in the 1930s but by September 1939 war broke out in Europe and Germany invaded the Low Countries within the year.