It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931.

According to her diaries, Volume One, 1931 – 1934, Nin abandoned formal schooling at the age of sixteen years and later began working as an artist's model.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Tombaugh discovered nearly 800 asteroids during his search for Pluto and years of follow-up searches looking for another candidate for the postulated Planet X. Tombaugh is also credited with the discovery of comet C / 1931 AN, though its orbit is currently unknown.

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

After two years he left the seminary to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, obtaining an MA in 1928 and a PhD in 1931.

There were also enormous war reparations to be paid over a period of 70 years, although they ended in 1931 ( but were resumed after World War II ).

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

In the years 1931 – 1939 the Gdynia harbour was further extended to become a universal seaport.

Gödel is best known for his two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931 when he was 25 years old, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University of Vienna.

On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts ; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age thirteen in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.

In 1931, the Transport Licensing Act was passed, protecting the railways from competition for fifty years.

His mother, Sophie (" Phia ") Entz ( 1851 – 1931 ), came from a well-to-do Prague family, the Entz-Kinzelbergers, who lived in a house on the Herrengasse ( Panská ) 8, where René also spent many of his early years.

Vivian Hartley met ( Herbert ) Leigh Holman, a barrister 13 years her senior, in 1931.

Achelis started the Journal of Calendar Reform in 1931, publishing it for twenty-five years, and wrote five books, on the calendar concept.

His research at Brown was concerned mainly with the effects on diffusion of temperature gradients, and produced the Onsager reciprocal relations, a set of equations published in 1929 and, in an expanded form, in 1931, in statistical mechanics whose importance went unrecognized for many years.

Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona ( two years before the Nazis came to power ).

He returned to Germany in 1931 and was arrested in 1935, two years after the Nazis had come to power.

In 1931, Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and was sentenced to eleven years in a Federal institution, plus one year in the Cook County Jail for attempted jury tampering.

It remained a mosque until 1931 when it was closed to the public for four years.

For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Sunny Side Up ( 1929 ), Delicious ( 1931 ), Merely Mary Ann ( also 1931 ), and Adorable ( 1933 ), as well as State Fair ( 1933 ) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife ( 1935 ), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man.

In 1931, an apprenticeship in the YCL qualified Hall to travel to the Soviet Union to study for two years at the International Lenin School in Moscow.

Until 1931, forty-one years later, all Fort Mojave boys and girls between the ages of six and eighteen were compelled to live at this school or attend an advanced Indian school remote from Fort Mojave.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

In later years, Capp always claimed to have effectively created the miniskirt, when he first put one on Daisy Mae in 1934.

Four years later, in 1934, new Central Committee departments were established which were independent from the Department for Personnel.

Over the years, membership in the Central Committee increased ; in 1934 there were 71 full members, in 1976 there were 287 full members.

Thomas continued to work as a freelance journalist for several years and during this time remained at Cwmdonkin Drive where he continued to add to his notebooks, amassing 200 poems in four books between 1930 and 1934.

He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year ( 1934 – 1935 ), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U. S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

In 1934, his second major-league season, he hit. 339 and helped the Tigers reach their first World Series in 25 years.

* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )

John Norman " Johnny " Haynes ( 17 October 1934 – 18 October 2005 ) was an English footballer, best known for his 18 years at Fulham.

The first Komodo dragon was exhibited in 1934 at the National Zoo in Washington, D. C., but it lived for only two years.

The previous two teams to do it, the 1934 and 1942 Chicago Bears, both lost those years ' NFL Championship Games.

In 1934, the studio lost over $ 2. 5 million, of which $ 500, 000 was the result of a fire at the Burbank studio at the end of 1934, destroying 20 years worth of early Vitagraph, Warner Bros., and First National films.

Three years later, in 1934, Lindgren gave birth to her second child, Karin, who became a translator.

In the fall of 1934, CBS launched its independent news division, shaped in its first years by Paley's vice-president, former The New York Times man Ed Klauber, and news director Paul White.

" When he was in his mid 20s, during the " Depression " years 1934 to 1936, he had been a member of the American Communist Party in New York, for a year and a half.

This heavyweight of Irish origins and army boxing champion from 1934 to 1937 was sentenced in 1938 by a military court to 14 years of forced labour after hitting an officer.

Fermi's paper was published by Zeitschrift für Physik in 1934, and finally published by Nature 5 years later, after Fermi's work had been widely accepted.

The 1729 version was the basis for several republications, often incorporating revisions, among them a widely used modernized English version of 1934, which appeared under the editorial name of Florian Cajori ( though completed and published only some years after his death ).

During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance ( 1934 ) and Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Keats's publisher ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and a book about a game he loved, Cricket Country ( 1944 ).

Also, the 1934 United States Senate Nye Committee Memorandum shows that Zaharoff was paid with considerable money commissions in the transactions that were made between foreign companies and the Spanish Government ( for example, he got paid among a 5 and 7 % commission of the price of the American submarines sold to Spain, during all these years ).

In the years since the enactment of the RTAA in 1934, the economies of Europe and East Asia had been decimated by the violence of World War II.