She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

The 1920s also saw a major expansion in industry.

Ecology also has developed through contributions from other nations, including Russia's Vladimir Vernadsky and his founding of the biosphere concept in the 1920s and Japan's Kinji Imanishi and his concepts of harmony in nature and habitat segregation in the 1950s.

Increased use of the forward pass encouraged adoption of a narrower ball, starting with changes in the 1920s which enhanced rifled throwing and also spiral punting.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

Radio Netherlands, heard worldwide via shortwave radio since the 1920s, is also based here.

" The Spaniards also experienced much trouble with the neighbouring Rif tribes under Abdelkrim al-Khattabi in the early 1920s.

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.

Other examples include the American Renaissance of the 1820s-60s, referring mainly to literature, and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, referring mainly to literature but also to music and the visual arts.

( The term “ race hatred ” had also been used by sociologist Frederick Hertz in the late 1920s.

Ragtime also served as the roots for stride piano, a more improvisational piano style popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.

Guising also involved going to wealthy homes, and in the 1920s, boys went guising at Halloween up to the affluent Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

It was followed in 1794 by the celebrated View of the Evidences of Christianity, which was also added to the examinations at Cambridge, remaining on the syllabus until the 1920s.

The 1920s also experienced the rise of the far right and fascism in Europe and elsewhere, being perceived as a solution to prevent the spread of Communism.

: See also Social issues of the 1920s

Some players, especially those who find the 20K excessively heavy for marching, prefer the slightly smaller King model 1250, first made in the late 1920s and also still in production as the model 2350.

The work of Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of literary genres, appearing separately but around the same time ( 1920s – 1930s ) as Bakhtin.

The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India ( now in Pakistan ).

The first half of the 1920s was a particularly lean period for composing but Ravel did complete successful concert tours to Amsterdam, Milan, London, Madrid, and Vienna, which also boosted his fame.

Biodynamic agriculture, the first intentional form of organic farming, began in the 1920s when Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures since published as Agriculture.

This period ended in the 1920s with several changes that gave advantages to hitters.

Updated in the 1920s to these guides gave shopping suggestions for different-sized families along with a Depression Era revision which included four cost levels.

The experiences gained by Africans in the war coupled with the creation of the white-settler-dominated Kenya Crown Colony, gave rise to considerable political activity in the 1920s which culminated in Archdeacon Owen's " Piny Owacho " ( Voice of the People ) movement and the " Young Kikuyu Association " ( renamed the " East African Association ") started in 1921 by Harry Thuku ( 1895 – 1970 ), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience.

It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, but which led the government to pursue it on antitrust grounds for more than twenty years.

The Fascist government had direct rule only over the Benadir territory Given the defeat of the Dervish movement in the early 1920s and the rise of fascism in Europe, on 10 July 1925, Mussolini gave the green light to De Vecchi to start the takeover of the north-eastern sultanates.

Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.

* The Lost Generation ( which characterized disillusionment ), was the name Gertrude Stein gave to American writers, poets, and artists living in Europe during the 1920s.

In the early 1920s, Leopold Stokowski gave Stravinsky regular support through a pseudonymous ' benefactor '.

Written accounts in the 1910s and 1920s gave much of the credit to H. J.

Discipline for violating church teachings gradually subsided as the earlier emphasis upon unity of practice ( the " order of the Brethren ") gave way during the 1920s and 1930s to an emphasis upon individual moral autonomy.

* The varied works of numerous prominent architects, and many prominent mansions, especially near the lakefront, gave the town by the 1920s the sobriquet " The City of Homes ," a fact often touted by local real estate agents.

Dairy farming gave way to vegetable raising in the 1920s and prospered due to the rich soil and advancements in irrigation, machinery and transportation facilities.

Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s, but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture and in 1952, published a paper, Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge ( Synchronicity — An Acausal Connecting Principle ), in a volume with a related study by the physicist ( and Nobel laureate ) Wolfgang Pauli.

He was further influenced by the orchestral brilliance of Heitor Villa-Lobos, who lived in Paris in the 1920s and gave acclaimed concerts there.

In the 1920s and 1930s the intellectual movement known as Afrocubanismo gave roots to traditional rumba When this afrocubanismo movement came along it helped open the doors to African rooted dancing and ways of expression.

The experiences gained by Africans in the war coupled with the creation of the white-settler-dominated Kenya Crown Colony, gave rise to considerable political activity in the 1920s which culminated in Archdeacon Owen's " Piny Owacho " ( Voice of the People ) movement and the " Young Kikuyu Association " ( renamed the " East African Association ") started in 1921 by Harry Thuku ( 1895 – 1970 ), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience.

The term agitprop gave rise to agitprop theatre, a highly-politicized leftist theatre originated in 1920s Europe and spread to America ; the plays of Bertolt Brecht being a notable example.

Likewise, when the sound era of cartoons began in the late 1920s, early animators such as Walt Disney gave characters like Mickey Mouse ( who already resembled blackface performers ) a minstrel-show personality ; the early Mickey is constantly singing and dancing and smiling.

" That spring, Ornstein gave a series of recitals in the New York home of one of his advocates ; these concerts were crucial precedents for the composer societies around which the modern music scene would thrive in the 1920s.

Ornstein, burned out, effectively gave up his celebrated performance career in the early 1920s.

The area had exceptionally high levels of unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s, which gave it a radical reputation, with Communism and Socialism being popular political philosophies in particular.