Talcott Parsons ( December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979 ) was an American sociologist and the main theorist of action theory ( misleadingly called " structural functionalism ") in sociology from the 1930s in the United States.

From the 1930s through the 1950s, the two best-known-and competing-Hollywood gossip columnists were Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons.

Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams ( aka FPA ), Nick Kenny, John Crosby, Jimmie Fidler, Louella Parsons, Drew Pearson, Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell, achieved a celebrity status and used their syndicated columns as a springboard to move into radio and television.

In 1955 Manning published The Doves of Venus, which drew on her experiences in London in the 1930s ; the two friends, Ellie Parsons and Nancy Claypole, bore similarities to Manning and Stevie Smith.

The first correspondence between Barnard and Parsons began in the end of the 1930s and it persisted essentially to Barnard ’ s death in 1961.

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 ).

Founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902, it was later renamed to share the name of the city in the 1930s.

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

* Alfredo Binda ( 1902 – 1986 ), a cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s, later trainer of Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali.

George Brunies, aka Georg Brunis, ( February 6, 1902 – November 19, 1974 ) was a jazz trombonist who came to fame in the 1930s, and was part of the Dixieland revival.

In general, evidence suggests the range and population of the Australian Magpie has increased with land-clearing, although local declines in Queensland due to a 1902 drought, and in Tasmania in the 1930s have been noted ; the cause for the latter is unclear but rabbit baiting, pine tree removal, and spread of the Masked Lapwing ( Vanellus miles ) have been implicated.

Gene Sarazen (; February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999 ) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s.

* Aaron Bank ( 1902 – 2004 ), World War II Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) agent and co-founder of the U. S. Army's Special Forces Group ( later, Green Berets ), was a lifeguard and medical ( physical ) therapist's aide at Biarritz before he enlisted in the army in the late 1930s.

Jasper Maskelyne ( 1902 – 1973 ) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Curta was conceived by Curt Herzstark ( 1902 – 1988 ) in the 1930s in Vienna, Austria.

The current building, designed by Sir Herbert Baker, is a 1930s replacement of the original building, commissioned in 1902 by the 1888-formed Corporation of the Church House to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee of 1887.

It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, which administered certain territories from 1902 to 1939, and the Office of Territorial Affairs ( formerly the Division of Territories and Island Possessions and then the Office of Territories ) in the Interior Department, which was responsible for certain territories from the 1930s to the 1990s.

In 1902, Components Ltd., owned by Charles Sangster, bought the company and began producing motorcycles, but the company suffered several financial crises including spells in receivership in 1911 and the early 1930s.

The film is based on a 1902 French play by Paul Anthelme called Nos Deux Consciences, a play Hitchcock saw in the 1930s.

* Alexandre Kojève ( 1902 – 1968 ), gave rise to a new understanding of Hegel in France during the 1930s.

Graves in this cemetery, along with all graves in San Francisco, were moved in the 1930s and 1940s to Colma after burials in San Francisco were banned in 1902 at all but two cemeteries to increase available real estate.

The mercury arc rectifier was invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and further developed throughout the 1920s and 1930s by researchers in both Europe and North America.

The first major model, implicit in most early histories of science and generally a model put forward by practicing scientists themselves in their textbook literature, is associated with the criticisms of logical positivism by Karl Popper ( 1902 – 1994 ) from the 1930s.

* Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975 ), a German artist known for his life-sized female dolls, produced in the 1930s.

Al Hoffman ( September 25, 1902 – July 21, 1960 ), a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today.

The line was doubled between 1902 and 1911, and electrified in the 1930s.

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

He had introduced the adele ring in the late 1930s, following Claude Chevalley's lead with the ideles, and given a proof of the Riemann – Roch theorem with them ( a version appeared in his Basic Number Theory in 1967 ).

Roma returned to form after being inconsistent for much of the late 1930s ; Roma recorded an unexpected title triumph in the 1941 – 42 season by winning their first ever scudetto title.

These leagues did not consider themselves " minor " – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM Branch Rickey pioneered the farm system in the 1930s.

During the 1930s, multiple acts of cannibalism were reported from Ukraine and Russia's Volga, South Siberian and Kuban regions during the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

The occurrence of planktonic foraminifera across the K – T boundary has been studied since the 1930s.

* Harry Nyquist ( 1889 – 1976 ), developed the Nyquist stability criterion for feedback systems in the 1930s.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.

Henry Benjamin " Hank " Greenberg ( January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986 ), nicknamed " Hammerin ' Hank " or " The Hebrew Hammer ," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.

Johnny Weissmuller ( born János Weißmüller ; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984 ) was an American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.

** Sknyatino – underwater since flooding during the 1930s.

Leonard Bloomfield ( April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949 ) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

* 1923 – Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce, singer's / songwriter's ,( aka, 1930s Three X Sisters ) first documented performance at BF Keith's Theater, Syracuse, NY.

The von Neumann description of quantum measurement of an observable A, when the system is prepared in a pure state ψ is the following ( note, however, that von Neumann's description dates back to the 1930s and is based on experiments as performed during that time – more specifically the Compton – Simon experiment ; it is not applicable to most present-day measurements within the quantum domain ):