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1929
 
    
US author Thomas Wolfe publishes an autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel       
1929
 
    
US explorer Richard E. Byrd and two companions make the first flight over the South Pole, in a Ford Tri-Motor       
1929
 
    
English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions       
1929
 
    
English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That       
Robert Graves by Jeffrey Morgan, c.1929
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1930
 
    
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer       
1930
 
    
The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting       
1930
 
     
Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star        
1930
 
    
US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway       
1930
 
    
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience       
1930
 
    
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation