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Dorothea Lange photo of farmers in West Carlton in 1939

* Story Bridge under construction, 1939 This photo is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

* 1939 publicity photo of Mercer and Hines announcing their marriage

Carl Van Vechten's photo portrait, April 25, 1939

following graphical processing and enhancement of a scan of a photo on an undated ( c 1939 ) newspaper cutting held in family archives

Murray Louis Tyrrell and Ellen St Clair Greig, wedding photo, 6 May 1939

The earliest use of a color photo on a cover is the February 1939 issue of True magazine, with the February 1940 edition apparently the first to feature a gag worn by a damsel in distress.

CAMCO personnel, in a photo probably taken at the Loiwing factory's opening in 1939.

1939 photo by United States Geological Survey.

Rychlak also alleged that Cornwell manipulated the photograph on the front cover of the American edition of the book, and incorrectly dated the photo as having been taken in March 1939, the month that Pacelli was made Pope.

Dora Gabe ( fragment from a photo taken before 1939 ).

Shown in a photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1939

Shown from left to right in this 1939 photograph are: Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, and the three men responsible for planning of most of Operation Himmler: Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller ( Gestapo ) | Heinrich Müller.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).

He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay " Proof of an External World ", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying " Here is one hand ," and then raising his left and saying " And here is another ," then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows ( by this argument ) that an external world exists.

1939 photograph ; shown from left to right are Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller ( Gestapo ) | Heinrich Müller.

Mahadev Desai ( left ) reading out a letter to Gandhi from the viceroy at Birla House, Bombay, 7 April 1939

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Reinhard Heydrich ( middle ) with Heinrich Himmler ( left ), Karl Wolff ( right ), and an unidentified assistant ( front ) at the Berghof ( residence ) | Obersalzberg, May 1939

At the end of 1939, when Lazarsfeld submitted a second application for funding, the musical section of the study was duly left out.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

Most Germans left during the first half of the 20th century, in particular as part of the Heim ins Reich program of the Nazis in 1939.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

German dictator Adolf Hitler ( right ) and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ( left ) pursue agendas of territorial expansion for their countries in the 1930s, eventually leading to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Bentley Tollemache and his family left Peckforton at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

In spring of 1939, there already was neither single Belarusian official organisation in Poland nor a single Belarusian school ( with only 44 schools teaching Belarusian language left ).

Deutsch was forced to flee Germany before World War II and left for Amsterdam in late 1938 or early 1939.

In 1936 he entered the graphics ' division of Olivetti, then one of the most important industrial firms in the nation, but in 1939, after Fascism issued racial laws, to protect his wife, he left Italy for France first and the U. S. A. later ( Long Island ).

In 1938, Remarque's German citizenship was revoked and then in 1939 after he and his ex-wife were remarried to prevent her repatriation to Germany, they left Porto Ronco, Switzerland for the United States of America.

In 1939, Astaire left RKO to freelance and pursue new film opportunities, with mixed though generally successful outcomes.

His agitations for a united socialist front of all parties of the left ( including the Communist Party of Great Britain ) led to his brief expulsion from the Labour Party in March to November 1939 ( along with Stafford Cripps and C. P.

She ponders about medical experiments conducted by Nazi physicians ; about the gas chambers in the death camps, implicitly comparing a crowded New York subway with a cattle wagon to Auschwitz ; the Nazis making soap with human fat ; Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism ; displaced Jews after World War II ; anti-Semitism in general ; Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria ; the world population of Jews in 1939 and today and the fact that there were " no Jews left " in Poland after World War II ; business in the DP camps ( i. e. bartering with cigarettes ), coffee but also Nazi memorabilia ; and she considers with disgust a video game on CD-ROM entitled " How to Survive the Holocaust ".

The last horses left the stables in 1939 and the building was then used as a store and garage.

In 1939, Colvig had a fallout with Disney and left the studio, leaving Goofy without a voice.

Feeling his designs were too abstract for a mass audience, Fishinger left the studio in apparent despair, before the segment was completed, in October 1939.

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

* Nordic League ( a British far right organization ), a far right organisation in the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1939 that sought to serve as a co-ordinating body for the various extremist movements whilst also seeking to promote Nazism

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In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

Docents were granted the right to vote and be represented in 1939 and other academics and students in 1955.

The population grew only by 10 % from 1917 to 1939, while the population right outside the market town ’ s borders grew significantly.

Guderian ( centre ) and Semyon Krivoshein ( right ) at the German – Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk | joint German – Soviet parade in Brest, Belarus | Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.

At the age of sixteen he began wearing a monocle – an unusual step for a young man even in 1939 – after an oculist told him his right eye was weaker than his left eye.

Slow-motion is widely used in sport broadcasting and its origins in this domain extend right back to the earliest days of television, one example being the European Heavyweight Title in 1939 where Max Schmeling knocked out Adolf Heuser in 71 seconds.

In 1939, the ILP wrote to the Labour Party requesting affiliation subject to a right to advocate its own policies where it had a " conscientious objection " to Labour policy.

Docents were granted the right to vote and be represented in 1939 and other academics and students in 1955.

From 1936 to 1949, the Bombers won the right to compete for the Grey Cup 9 times ( 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945 ).

Nevada officials again extended the route along preexisting highways ; however, they may not have signed the extension right away as it was not shown on Nevada's state-published maps until 1939.

The shield is quartered, symbolic of the four great thalassocracies of Italy, the repubbliche marinare of Venice ( represented by the lion passant, top left ), Genoa ( top right ), Amalfi ( bottom left ), and Pisa ( represented by their respective crosses ); the rostrata crown was proposed by Admiral Cavagnari in 1939 to acknowledge the Navy's origins in ancient Rome.

Hague appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which held in 1939 that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly.

On 1 December 1939, the Germans published a decree requiring all Jews aged 6 and older to wear an armband on their right arm bearing a yellow Star of David ( the colour was later changed to blue ).

The 1939 Mackenzie King Cabinet ; Mackenzie King in centre front row, C. D. Howe, second from the right in the rear row

In June 1939 the IOC voted unanimously in favour of Germany organising the 1940 Winter Games, replacing Japan that had returned the right to organise the 1940 Games.

The first inmates imprisoned on 2 September 1939 were 150 Polish citizens, arrested on the streets of Danzig right after the outbreak of the war.