" — Hercule Poirot in " The Erymanthian Boar " ( 1940 ).

Until he began making spoken dialogue films with The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), he never shot from a completed script, but instead usually started with only a vague premise — for example " Charlie enters a health spa " or " Charlie works in a pawn shop.

* 1940 – 1942 — Self Portrait: Between Clock and Bed

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

* 1940 Bantam Pilot — Prototype

* 1940 Bantam BRC-60 — Prototype

* 1940 Willys Quad — Prototype

* 1940 Ford Pygmy — Prototype

* 1940 Budd Ford — Prototype

He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war — in Nancy and finally in Stalag 12D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas.

* The Wimsey Papers, published between Nov. 1939 and Jan. 1940 in The Spectator Magazine — a series of mock letters by members of the Wimsey family, being in effect fictionalised commentaries on life in England at the inception of the war.

* 1940 — 15. 9 million

It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 — three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland — and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty.

A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840 — 1940.

In 1940, only one-third of radio programs were sponsored, while two-thirds were sustaining ; by mid-decade, the statistics had swapped — now two out of three shows had cash-paying sponsors and only one-third were sustaining.

The doctrine was also invoked by U. S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in a declaration of July 23, 1940, that announced non-recognition of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — and remained the official U. S. position until the Baltic states gained formal international recognition as independent states in 1991.

Dewey's relative youth — he was only 38 in 1940 — and lack of any foreign-policy experience caused his candidacy to weaken as the Nazi military emerged as a fearsome threat.

The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

After the outbreak of World War II, the state was recognised by Slovakia ( 1 June 1940 ), France ( 12 July 1940 ), Romania ( 1 December 1940 ), Bulgaria ( 10 May 1941 ), Finland ( 18 July 1941 ), Denmark ( August 1941 ), Croatia ( 2 August 1941 )— all controlled or influenced by Japan's ally Germany — as well as by the China's Wang Jingwei government ( 30 November 1940 ), Thailand ( 5 August 1941 ) and the Philippines ( 1943 )— all under Japanese control.

* 1940 – Donald Jackson, Canadian figure skater

After weeks of practice, Berry, Ginsburg, and Torrence planned to record a demo recording in Berry's garage, but Torrance was conscripted into the United States Army Reserve forcing Berry and Ginsburg to record " Jennie Lee " without Torrence, with Berry's friend and fellow University High student Donald J. Altfeld ( born March 18, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) " belting out the rhythm on a children's metal high chair ".

Pete is a featured character in the following Donald Duck cartoons: Donald's Lucky Day ( 1939 ), Officer Duck ( 1939 ), The Riveter ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), Donald Gets Drafted ( 1942 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ), Sky Trooper ( 1942 ), Bellboy Donald ( 1942 ), The Old Army Game ( 1943 ), Trombone Trouble ( 1944 ), The New Neighbor ( 1953 ) and Canvas Back Duck ( 1953, where he fights a semi-pro boxing match with Donald Duck ).

He appears in Window Cleaners ( 1940 ), Inferior Decorator ( 1948 ), Bubble Bee ( 1949 ), Honey Harvester ( 1949 ), Slide, Donald, Slide ( 1949 ), Bee at the Beach ( 1950 ), Bee on Guard ( 1951 ) and Let's Stick Together ( 1952 )

Sir Donald Francis Tovey ( 17 July 187510 July 1940 ) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.

WDC itself was launched in October 1940, and initially consisted of reprints taken from the Disney comic strips Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies reformatted for comic books and colored.

Donald " Don " Thomas Brash ( born 24 September 1940 ), a New Zealand politician, was Leader of the Opposition, parliamentary leader of the National Party ( the country's main Opposition party at that time ) from 28 October 2003 to 27 November 2006 and the leader of the ACT Party for 28 April 2011-26 November 2011.

He attended Westminster School ( where he first met Donald Swann ) and read History at Christ Church, Oxford from 1940.

* Donald A. Martin ( born 1940 ), aka Tony Martin, set theorist at UCLA

Donald Leroy " Don " LaFontaine ( August 26, 1940 – September 1, 2008 ) was an American voice actor famous for recording more than 5, 000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of television advertisements, network promotions, and video game trailers.

John Donald " Don " Imus, Jr. ( born July 23, 1940 ) is an American radio host, humorist, philanthropist and writer.

This oral history is consistent with another oral history taken one watershed to the north by CDFG's Donald T. Tappe from a retired game warden in 1940, who stated that beaver were " apparently not uncommon on the upper part of the Kings River " until 1882-1883.

* Sir Donald Scott ( politician ) ( Robert Donald Scott, 1901 – 1974 ), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Wansbeck 1940 – 1945

Donald Wilbur Stewart ( born February 8, 1940 ) is a lawyer who was from 1978 to 1981 a Democratic U. S. Senator from Alabama.

* Donald Milner Cameron ( born 1940 ), Liberal Party of Australia MHR for Griffith, Queensland, 1966 – 1977, for Fadden, Queensland, 1977 – 1983, for Moreton, Queensland, 1983 – 1990

Donald Leo " Don " Mischer ( born March 5, 1940 ) is an American internationally acclaimed producer and director of television and live events.

In 1940 her husband Donald was killed in a street accident during the Blackout.

Donald Lambro ( born July 14, 1940 ) is an Albanian American journalist.

In 1940, I AM leaders Edna Ballard and her son Donald were indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles for use of the mails to defraud.

Donald Edward Garland VC ( 28 June 1918 – 12 May 1940 ) born in Ballincor, County Wicklow, Garland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

A breakthrough was achieved after the Narvik pinch in which the disguised armed trawler Polares, which was on its way to Narvik in Norway, was seized by HMS Griffin in the North Sea on 26 April 1940.