At the 1931 general election he was chosen by the Conservatives to contest Nottingham West, which was held by Arthur Hayday of the Labour Party.
Alexander did not contest the 1929 apparently reverting to his law practice in London but in 1931, perhaps influenced by his defeat by Buxton, he surfaced as the Labour candidate in Newcastle upon Tyne East.
The Conservatives gained more seats than at any other general election since their landslide result in 1931.
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Sinclair did however return to the House of Commons at the 1886 general election as Liberal Unionist Party member for Falkirk Burghs in the central Scottish Lowlands.
After the 2003 fire at the National Archives of India, Pune in which prints of first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) were lost, it is also the earliest surviving talkie of Indian cinema.
A right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, he rose quickly to the major league level as player, when he was called up to the Chicago White Sox in 1931 after hitting .366 in the Class C Western Association.
Buchtel High School opened in 1931 and is named after Akron industrialist and philanthropist John R. Buchtel, who helped to organize and finance a number of early Akron firms, including the Goodrich Corporation.
Carlos Alberto Navarrete Cáceres (born January 29, 1931 in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala) is an anthropologist and writer.
Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) the 19th century U.S. Representative from Indiana and the namesake of the musical instrument company C.G. Conn Inc.
In March 1910 Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him Financial Secretary to the War Office, a position he held until he was defeated in the December general election of the same year.
Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy, the CPR has provided marine scientists with their only measure of plankton communities on a pan-oceanic scale.
Russian eye surgeon Vladimir Filatov's attempts at transplanting cornea started with the first try in 1912 and were continued, gradually improving until on 6 May 1931 he successfully grafted a patient using corneal tissue from a deceased person.
He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,but in 1931 together with his family he has moved to Zagreb.
He was a founder of the Soaring Society of America (1931) and managed 'Glider Meets' (National Gliding and Soaring Championships), at Elmira, New York, during the mid to late 1930s.
In March 1931, Slaughter was hired as an assistant football coach at the University of Virginia, where he was put in charge of the linemen under new head coach Fred Dawson.
Bulletin of the National Research Council, Number 77, Physics of the Earth - I Volcanology, By the Subsidiary Committee on Volcanology, Published by the National Research Council of The National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C., (1931)
On March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after a wing separated in flight, killing all eight on board, including football coach Knute Rockne.
On December 6, 1931, a KLM F.VIIb/3m, registration PH-AFO, crashed at Bangkok after failing to take off, killing five of seven on board.
George Andreas Berry (1853–1940), MP for Combined Scottish Universities, 1922–1931
At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Scotstoun.
Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne (1931–1995), Irish peer and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire
In the 1970 General Election Evans lost his Carmarthen seat to Labour's Gwynoro Jones, and failed to regain it in the February 1974 General Election by only three votes.
In 1931, Haenigsen first moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania with his wife Bobby, but they stayed there only briefly.
From 1931 to approximately 1948, he had an ownership interest in the Hotel Playa Ensenada, later renamed the Hotel Riviera del Pacífico, a luxury hotel in Baja California, Mexico.
The 1930s saw him playing with Bobby Neal (1931) and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band; he was both a performer and an arranger for the Blue Rhythm Band from 1932 to 1936, when Lucky Millinder replaced him.
He held the seat in 1959, but lost it at the 1964 election to the Labour candidate Jack Dunnett.
John Yanta (born October 2, 1931, in Runge, Texas), is a former Roman Catholic bishop who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo in Amarillo, Texas.
Julio Bécquer Villegas (born December 20, 1931, in Havana, Cuba) is a retired professional baseball player who played 7 seasons for the Washington Senators, Los Angeles Angels, and Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball.
Louis Pouzin (born 1931 in Chantenay-Saint-Imbert, Nièvre, France) invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES.
She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 and was appointed William Withering Chair in Medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1946, after serving in the Far East during the Second World War.
Melvin L. Brown (1931–1950), United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor
At the 1964 general election, Hughes-Young faced another challenge from Labour, who had selected Dr David Kerr; in his election address he pointed to the fact that Labour had opposed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 and asked how the local housing situation would cope without restrictions on immigration.
Michael Elliott (1931–1984), English theatre and television director
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 crime / romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy.
It is identical to a four-team McIntyre System playoff, first used by the Victorian Football League in Australia in 1931, originally called the Page-McIntyre system, after the VFL delegate, the Richmond Football Club's Secretary, Percy "Pip" Page, who had advocated its use.
Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, who were all founding members of the Group Theatre (1931–1940), the first American acting ensemble to utilize Stanislavski's techniques.
A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.
He was selected to follow Sir Hal Miller as candidate for the safe seat of Bromsgrove, and won the seat with a 13,702 majority in the 1992 election.
Eliza Gutch (1840–1931), who wrote to Notes and Queries under the pseudonym St Swithin.
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (24 January 1853, Rhaunen, Rhine Province – 4 January 1931, Dresden, Saxony) was a German psychiatrist born in Rhaunen.
John C. Lincoln, an Ohio inventor and industrialist who founded Lincoln Electric, relocated to the Sunnyslope district in 1931 with his wife Helen, to treat her tuberculosis; almost immediately, the Lincolns became major financial supporters of Desert Mission and took on key leadership roles in the organization for most of the remainder of their lives.
The House That Shadows Built (1931) promotional film released by Paramount with excerpt of The Covered Wagon
It was first published in 1931 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, and was ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson.
According to the Boxing Chronicles by Xu Jianchi (1931), Qi Xin of Zhejiang went to teach back-through boxing at Gu'an County in Hebei Province in the middle and latter half of the Qing Dynasty.
Significant changes since the 1945 general election included the abolition of plural voting by the Representation of the People Act 1948, and a major reorganisation of constituencies by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949.
Victor "Young" Perez, tells the astonishing, harrowing and poignant story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932.
Walter Kissling was born to Walter Kissling Rickli and Adela Gam Secen in Limón, Costa Rica on April 25, 1931.
At the 1885 general election, Sir Henry Kimber was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth.
WartenbergTrust is a global multi-family office, wealth management and investment advisory firm established in 1921 to manage financial and other assets of the Wartenberg family in German-speaking Europe and from 1931 also in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the US and Italy.
John Whitridge Williams (1866–1931), American obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital
In 1887 he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to vice-president of the legislative council of India and a member of the Council of India from 1923 to 1931.
Oscar Yatco (born 1931), Filipino violinist, conductor laureate, and concertmaster