Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920s, the dislocations of the Depression, the common ethos of Materialism everywhere, all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People.

* Droughts like the ' dust bowl ' of the Great Depression in the U. S. turned farmland into desert.

In particular, he notes that investment spending remained positive in all recessions where there are data, except for the Great Depression.

28, 000 men were sent to fight in World War I. Adelaide enjoyed a post-war boom but, with the return of droughts, entered the Great Depression of the 1930s, later returning to prosperity under strong government leadership.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of " Direct Credits ", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour.

As the Great Depression began, Stone reduced his workforce and improved training.

Leaving his new wife with her parents in Amesbury, Massachusetts, he subsequently returned to New York in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression.

The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.

The Negro National League did well until 1930, but folded during the Great Depression.

In 1931 MacDonald's government fell apart under the Great Depression, and the Liberals agreed to join his National Government, dominated by the Conservatives.

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

These ideas were informed by events prior to the Great Depression when — in the opinion of Keynes and others — international lending, primarily by the U. S., exceeded the capacity of sound investment and so got diverted into non-productive and speculative uses, which in turn invited default and a sudden stop to the process of lending.

He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.

The Great Depression hit Berkeley hard, but not as hard as many other places in the U. S., thanks in part to the University.

Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job.

" Featuring the Tramp and Goddard as endurers of the Great Depression, it took ten and a half months to film.

The League of Nations labeled Chile the country hardest hit by the Great Depression because 80 % of government revenue came from exports of copper and nitrates, which were in low demand.

After the Great Depression Chilean economic policies changed toward import substitution industrialization and the Production Development Corporation was established.

The Art Deco movement died with the onset of the Great Depression and the outbreak of World War II.

Australia established its first central bank in 1920, Colombia in 1923, Mexico and Chile in 1925 and Canada and New Zealand in the aftermath of the Great Depression in 1934.

As industry in New England began to decline during the Great Depression and after World War II, Cambridge lost much of its industrial base.

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 ( 2008 )

In 1999, the country fell into its first recession since the Great Depression.

These plans never materialised mainly due to the Great Depression.

The young Alexei was brought up by his mother, who fostered an atmosphere of disdain towards Peter the Great, Alexei's father.

The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

However, Bede, like Gregory the Great whom Bede quotes on the subject in the Historia, felt that faith brought about by miracles was a stepping stone to a higher, truer faith, and that as a result miracles had their place in a work designed to instruct.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

In the 1920s democracy flourished, but the Great Depression brought disenchantment, and most of the countries of Europe, Latin America, and Asia turned to strong-man rule or dictatorships.

A specific 19th century example is the Irish diaspora, beginning mid-19th century and brought about by An Gorta Mór or " The Great Hunger " of the Irish Famine.

Magdalene College brought suit against the 18th Earl for the Great Garden property, and legal proceedings continued for decades.

Most importantly, the treaty delayed war with Great Britain and instead brought a decade of prosperous trade with Great Britain.

Major construction projects, such as the dockyard in the late 1890s and early 20th century brought large numbers of workers from Great Britain.

His direction of a 1926 stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby by Owen Davis brought him to the attention of the New York critics.

Polish independence had boosted the development of thriving culture and intellectual achievement was high, but the Great Depression brought huge unemployment and increased social tensions, including rising antisemitism.

Starting in 1928, but especially during the Great Depression, the government of King Zog, which brought law and order to the country, began to cede Albania's sovereignty to Italy.

Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) brought autocracy into Russia and played a major role in bringing his country into the European state system.

James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

In 1907, a union of smaller groups with the Methodist New Connexion and Bible Christian Church brought about the British " United Methodist Church ", then the three major streams of British Methodism united in 1932 to form the current Methodist Church of Great Britain.

In the occasion Otto the Great introduced his new daughter-in-law Theophanu, a Byzantine princess whose marriage to Otto II brought hope for recognition and continued peace between the rulers of the Eastern and Western empires.

The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.

The most famous example is It Happened One Night ; some critics believe that this portrayal of the upper class was brought about by the Great Depression, and the poor moviegoing public's desire to see the rich upper class taught a lesson in humanity.

The collapse of sugar prices brought on by the Great Depression precipitated the birth of the organized labour movement in St. Kitts and Nevis.

The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was brought about by the Act of Union 1800, creating the " United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ".

: In Queensland in 1891 the Great Shearers ' Strike brought the colony close to civil war and was broken only after the Premier of Queensland, Samuel Griffith, called in the military.