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Topic: British Columbia general election, 1924

	Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Elections must be held at least once in five years, but within that period the prime minister may at any time request the crown to dissolve Parliament and call for new elections.
		Domestically the long ministry of Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42), during the reigns of George I and George II, was a period of relative stability that saw the beginnings of the development of the cabinet as the chief executive organ of government.
		In 1945, the first general elections in ten years were held (they had been postponed because of the war) and Clement Attlee and the Labour party were swept into power.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreatBri.html (7942 words)

	British Columbia general election, 1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Columbia general election of 1924 was the sixteenth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
		It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
		In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_1924 (257 words)

	Timeline 1924-1925
		1924 Jul 5, Janos Starker, cellist (Chic Symph 1953-58), was born in Budapest, Hungary.
		1924 Nov 4, Nellie T. Ross was elected the governor of Wyoming; she was to serve the remaining term of William B. Ross, her husband who died in office in October 1924.
		1924 Edward Dene Morel, Congo activist, was elected to the British Parliament.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1924_1925.HTML (11227 words)

	Zimbabwe Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		British and Boer traders and hunters moved into the area, and the London Missionary Society established a mission to the Ndebele in 1861.
		The settlers pressed the company for political rights, and in 1914 the British government renewed the company’s charter on the condition that self-government be granted to the settlers by 1924.
		The 2002 elections were widely condemned as fraudulent, and general strikes called by opposition groups in 2003 were brutally suppressed.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Zimbabwe.html (1699 words)

	A RECONSIDERATION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
		Hard on the heels of the British departure from gold, in October 1931, the Federal Reserve raised the rediscount rate in two steps from 1_ to 3_ percent dragging the economy deeper into the mire of deflation and depression and aggravating the banking crisis.
		In the election campaign of 1980, Kemp was a candidate for the presidency but bowed out after Ronald W. Reagan agreed to incorporate the Kemp-Roth bill in his agenda for the economy.
		Inflation was the initial result but a learning mechanism educated a generation of monetary officials on the advantages of stability and by the end of the century fiscal prudence and inflation control had again become the watchword in all the rich and many of the poor countries.
	www.columbia.edu /~ram15/nobelLecture.html (7185 words)

	Sunlight and Disinfectants: Prosecutorial Accountability and Independence Through Public Transparency
		It does not mean that an individual Crown Attorney, in the discharge of his or her responsibilities as agent of the Attorney General, is free to do whatever he or she wishes, irrespective of the law, practice or the general guidelines or policies of the Attorney General.
		He further contended that the Attorney General may have permitted his interest as a member of government in the days before a general election to override his duty as the Queen’s Attorney to conduct the prosecution in accordance with the evidence and the law.
		Stone case, subsequently the Premier of British Columbia, felt so strongly about the issues raised in the appeal that after publication of his direction, he appeared personally before the Supreme Court of Canada to argue the case, and in that sense was prepared to be held publicly accountable for the positions he advanced.
	canadiancriminallaw.com /articles/sunlight_article.htm (7779 words)

	League of Nations Bibliography - L
		The British Mandate for Palestine and Its Significance.
		Republic of Columbia: Memorandum for the Use of the Members of the International Economic Conference Which Is to Be Convened by the League of Nations and Submitted to the Preparatory Committee for This Conference.
		General Election 1923; the Parties and the League, Replies from Party Leaders to a Request for a Statement As to Their Party's Attitude towards the Relation of British Foreign Policy to the League of Nations.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/bibl.htm (6431 words)

	Algeria Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		A number of small Muslim states rose and fell in Algeria, but generally the E part of the country came under the influence of dynasties centered in Tunisia and the W part was controlled by states centered in Morocco.
		In 1900 the country was given administrative and financial autonomy and placed under a governor general, who was advised by bodies whose membership was two-thirds European and one-third Muslim.
		However, in late April their leader, General Raoul Salan, was captured and by late June the army revolt had been ended.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Algeria.html (2590 words)

	University of California History Digital Archives
		Political party power changed with the election of 1882, and elements of the new legislature were antagonistic to the University.
		As major general in command of the 40th Division of the Guard, he directed the protection of the Port of San Francisco during the three-month longshoremen's strike of 1934.
		During the 1930's, he made several trips to Central and South America under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, acted as trustee of the California College in China and of Mills College, and was twice elected a director of the East Bay Utilities District.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /uchistory/general_history/overview/presidents (5365 words)

	The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
		In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population.
		The Union of South Africa was formed from the British colonies of the Natal and the Cape Colony, together with the subjugated Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
		The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe.
	www.friesian.com /british.htm (6479 words)

	H1910
		1924 Jun 20, Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of World War II who went on to make movies and write a book about his war experiences called "To Hell and Back," was born.
		1924 Nov 4, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor; she was to serve the remaining term of William B. Ross, her husband who died in office.
		1924 The Snyder Act Granted full citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. 1924 In Georgia the electric chair replaced hanging as the means of execution.
	www.eleggua.com /History/1924.html (3279 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The state is roughly square in shape with two major projections: the Alaska Peninsula, with its geographical extension, the Aleutian Islands; and the Panhandle, which extends from the SE body of the state along the border of British Columbia.
		At the NW corner of this region is the Saint Elias Range, with some of the highest peaks on the continent, largely covered with ice and snow and containing the spectacular Malaspina Glacier, the largest in the state.
		The governor appoints each justice, who must be confirmed in office by voters in the first general election held after the justice has served for three years on the court.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/alaska.html (4275 words)

	The Builder Magazine - August 1924
		In 1749, the British Government resolved upon the establishment of a British settlement in Nova Scotia and several thousand families were transferred thither under the leadership of Hon.
		Among the 10,000 British troops and 7,000 American Colonial troops which invested Montreal in 1760 there were five lodges on the Irish Registry, one on the Scottish, one on the English (Ancients) roll, and two on the St. John's Provincial Grand Lodge Registry at Boston.
		The British regiments participating in the siege were the 1st, 17th, 27th, 40th, 42nd, 46th and 55th.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1924_august.htm (10357 words)

	University of Louisville Libraries
		Eight volumes published between 1902 and 1924 by Joseph Henry Maiden, with accompanying plates and photographs.
		British migration experiences of the last 200 years.
		Poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.
	library.louisville.edu /research/general/primary2.htm (4171 words)

	Jan Christiaan Smuts — FactMonster.com
		Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by birth, he was educated at Victoria College (at Stellenbosch) and at Cambridge Univ., where he won highest honors in law.
		Weakened by his frequent absences and another strike-breaking incident, his party lost the election of 1924 to a coalition of labor and anti-British nationalists.
		He spent most of the war in London, where he had a high place in the British war councils, and he was very active in organizing the United Nations.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0845666.html (550 words)

	Columbia University and the City of New York
		David Hosack, Columbia Professor of Botany and Materia Medica, purchased 20 acres of land 3 1/2 miles north of the settled part of Manhattan, for $4800, intending to develop it as a botanical garden.
		Columbia's medical school closed; remnant of the medical faculty merged with College of Physicians and Surgeons; Columbia to be without a medical affiliation until 1861, without its own medical school until 1891.
		June 21 – Eisenhower accepted the offer to become Columbia’s president, after receiving assurances from Tutstees Watson and Parkinson that he would have no major responsibilities for fundraising and “a minimum of concern with details.” His tenure to begin upon his release from the Army.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /stand_columbia/TimelineCUinNYC.htm (5736 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		The riding was established in 1924 as Brome-Missisquoi.
		Progressive Conservative Heward Grafftey held the seat from 1958 until he was defeated in the 1968 election.
		--> Federal: Elected to the House of Commons for Brome-Missisquoi in the general election of 1958; re-elected in 1962, 1963, 1965, 1972, 1974, and 1979.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/044 (996 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		This small urban riding is at the south tip of Vancouver Island, and encompasses the city of Victoria, the adjacent municipality of Oak Bay, and the southeast corner of the District of Saanich, including the University of Victoria.
		In the community, he serves on the board of directors of the Royal British Columbia Museum Corporation, and was a two-term past president of the Friends of the RBCM.
		Community Activities: He is also a vice-chair of the RBCM Foundation, has been on the boards of directors for several arts societies, and was involved in a committee that built a 40-bed intermediate care lodge for seniors.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/304 (707 words)

	Temperance - Prohibition and the Custom Scandal of 1926
		1924, after seeing the revenue that the liquor commissions generated.
		In November 1924, a Belgian Schooner in the St. Lawrence transferred a load of alcohol onto a barge owned and operated by a Captain
		The election campaign that followed was heated and intense, with a lot of childish name-calling on both sides.
	www.bitesizecanada.org /temperance.htm (1134 words)

	The Political Graveyard: British Columbia
		U.S. Politicians who were born in British Columbia
		The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
		The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/ZZ/BC.html (412 words)

	United States History
		Presidential Elections and the Electoral College (American Memory, Library of Congress)
		Essays and Speeches by Theodore Roosevelt in the Election of 1912
		Jo Freeman, "The Rise of Political Woman in the Election of 1912" (2003)
	www2.tntech.edu /history/usa.html (7631 words)

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