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.

He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour ( usually combined ), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare ( 1502 ) and the Great Piece of Turf ( 1503, both also Albertina ).

893, Alfred the Great combined this and two other earlier Saxon codes, with various Mosaic and Christian precepts, to produce the Doom Book code of laws for England.

The Pravda Yaroslava, originally combined by Yaroslav the Wise the Grand Prince of Kiev, was granted to Great Novgorod around 1017, and in 1054 was incorporated into the Russkaya Pravda, that became the law for all of Kievan Rus.

After a hard struggle from the combined efforts of Hamilcar Barca, Hanno the Great and others, the Punic forces were finally able to annihilate the mercenaries and the insurgents.

In 40 – 39, Herod the Great was appointed King of the Jews by the Roman Senate, and in 6 CE the last ethnarch of Judea was deposed by the emperor Augustus and his territories were combined with Idumea and Samaria and annexed as Iudaea Province under direct Roman administration.

Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the party ’ s appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28 % in Berlin to the combined left ’ s 55 %.

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

Emergency contraceptive pills ( sometimes referred to as emergency hormonal contraception ( EHC ) in Great Britain ) may contain higher doses of the same hormones ( estrogens, progestins, or both ) found in regular combined oral contraceptive pills.

Alexander the Great combined both methods in his clashes with swarming Asiatic horseman, screening the central infantry core with slingers, archers and javelin men, before unleashing his cavalry to see off attackers.

When the Americans left in 1933 as a result of Sandino's guerrilla war and the Great Depression, they set up the Guardia Nacional ( National Guard ), a combined military and police force trained and equipped by the Americans, designed to be loyal to U. S. interests.

* 1675 – King Philip's War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.

If a feast day falls on a Sunday it is always combined with the hymns for Sunday ( unless it is a Great Feast of the Lord ).

The Latin spelling Sabaoth combined with the golden vines over the door on the Herodian Temple ( built by the Idumean Herod the Great ) led to the purportedly false identification by Romans with the god Sabazius.

The Treaty of Union enabled the two kingdoms to be combined into a single kingdom with the two parliaments merging into a single parliament of Great Britain.

Aided by the Great Heathen Army ( which had already overrun much of England from its base in Jorvik ), Bagsecg's forces, and Halfdan's forces ( through an alliance ), the combined Viking forces raided much of England until 871, when they planned an invasion of Wessex.

* October 16 – Seven Years ' War – Battle of Clostercamp: The French defeat the combined forces of Great Britain, Prussia, Hanover, Brunswick, and Hesse-Kassel.

* August 12 – Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro – Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst von Laudon.

* July 2 – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Lauffeld: France defeats the combined armies of Hanover, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

Repeated occasions of dynastic strife in Georgia combined with the efforts of regional successors of the Great Seljuq Empire, such as the Ildenizid atabegs of Azerbaijan, Shirvanshahs, and the Ahlatshahs, had slowed down the dynamic of the Georgians achieved during the reigns of Tamar's great-grandfather, David IV, and her father, George III.

In Great Britain 17, 000 lobotomies were performed, and the three Nordic countries of Finland, Norway, and Sweden had a combined figure of approximately 9, 300 lobotomies.

In February 1942, Raeder presented Hitler with the " Great Plan ", a grand strategic design for winning the war by a series of combined operations with Japan and Italy.

During the Great Depression, the North Carolina state government, under Governor O. Max Gardner, administratively combined the University of North Carolina, the Woman's College ( at Greensboro ), and NC State.

The Acts of Union of 1800, which combined Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, contained no equivalent provisions but preserved the principle of separate courts to be held in Ireland, of which the part called Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom.

Kirkwall was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.