During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

During the 1940s Haley was considered one of the top cowboy yodelers in America as " Silver Yodeling Bill Haley ".

During the 1940s and 50s the attendance was often above 40, 000, and Charlton had one of the largest support bases in the country.

During the 1940s Alston also took occasional art classes studying under Alexander Kostellow.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

During the 1940s The Living Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, and the Downtown Theater movement all took root there, and it developed a reputation as a place where aspiring playwrights and emerging voices could showcase their work.

During the late 1930s and through the 1940s — the heyday of big band jazz and swing music — the guitar was an important rhythm section instrument.

During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the aqua-lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today.

During the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for the company that would become DC Comics.

During the 1940s, English knitting rose in popularity while Continental knitting fell.

During the 1940s and 1950s, critics focused on the technique of the poem and how it relates to the meaning.

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer headed by Arthur Freed made the transition from old-fashioned musical films, whose formula had become repetitive, to something new.

During the late 1940s Jackson Pollock's radical approach to painting revolutionized the potential for all contemporary art that followed him.

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

During this period, the logo of the club was the Beer Barrel Man, which had been used by the American Association Milwaukee Brewers since at least the 1940s.

During the 20th century the tradition was reinvigorated by Captain America and his fellow Invaders in the 1940s, who fought for the Allies of World War II.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the state passed labor laws, implemented agrarian reform, and assumed a role in modernization, influenced in part by the leadership of Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina and Getúlio Dornelles Vargas in Brazil.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Heinlein was deeply interested in Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics and attended a number of seminars on the subject.

During the early 1940s, Rickenbacker amps were sometimes repaired by Leo Fender, whose repair shop evolved into the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in Nazi-controlled states were made to wear yellow ribbons or stars of David, and were, along with Romas ( Gypsies ), discriminated against by the racial laws.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, as dean of engineering and provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Coarsegold and Bass Lake were still populated with descendants of the miners and ranchers of the 19th century.

During the first half of the 1940s, Charteris cast Templar as a willing operative of the American government, fighting Nazi interests in the U. S. during World War II.

During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops.

During this period, Sporting competed in the UEFA Cup six times, losing in the Round of 32 four times, and the Round of 16 twice, most recently in 1991-92.

During the 1910s, the club won several Andalusian regional leagues, and became the first Spanish side to defeat a Portuguese team, winning against Sporting Clube de Portugal.

During the Civil War, the Battle of Sporting Hill became the northernmost engagement of the Gettysburg campaign, which took place at Camp Hill in late June 1863.

During the 1993 – 94 season, he scored a hat-trick against Albacete Balompié, adding four against Sporting de Gijón.

During this period, Benfica and Sporting each won four titles.

During this period Doyle kept up a hectic work schedule, presenting the Afternoon Programme two hours a day, Monday to Friday, as well as his regular four-hour stint on Saturdays on This Sporting Life and also, at one stage, the first weekly half-hour TV version of the show.

During the race, Sporting Blood overtook the ailing Prudery gaining his owner nearly a half million dollars, including wagers and the purse.

During the first century of the club's existence, the teams and the athletes of Sporting won 3 Olympic gold medal, as well as many silver and bronze medals and thousands of national and district titles.

During the founding period ( 1906 ), José Alvalade made known his wish to transform Sporting into a ".... big Club, as big as the biggest in Europe ".

During the 1920s, Sporting won its first Campeonato de Portugal ( 1922 / 23 ), a competition regarded as the National title although it was contested as a knockout competition.

During this decade, Sporting also claimed success in the sports of tennis, cycling, rugby ( regional level ), shooting, rink hockey ( victory in the National Championship in 1937 – 38 – the first season of the competition ), ice-skating, gymnastics and fencing.

During these years, Sporting scored 123 goals ( almost five per game ) in a championship played by 14 teams, 2 less than nowadays.

During the sixties, Sporting reached the pinnacle of their European success by winning the Cup Winners Cup in 1963 / 64 in a campaign which ended in a 2 games final against MTK.

During his career, Falls also had a weekly column in The Sporting News.

During his career Welsh was often reported in the British press as having learned his boxing trade in America, and therefore he had an ungentlemanly style of boxing, especially when compared to the darling of the National Sporting Club, ' peerless ' Jim Driscoll.

During his time at Sporting Gijón, Moran roomed with promising youngster and future Real Madrid and Barcelona star Luis Enrique.

During the 1940s Wismer was named Sportscaster of the Year three years running by Sporting News magazine.

During his last campaign, he notably scored against Sporting in a 2 – 1 home win, mere minutes after kick-off, and the Sadinos finished in a comfortable 7th place.

During the station's tenure as a sports station, KJRB also broadcasted " hot talk " shows such as Don and Mike, Tom Leykis, and, until his retirement, Phil Hendrie, and features programing from Fox Sports Radio, Sporting News Radio and Westwood One.

During the 1991 summer transfer window, Antić brought in Robert Prosinečki, prominent member of the Red Star Belgrade's 1991 European Cup winning side, as well as promising 21-year-old Luís Enrique from Sporting de Gijón.

During the start of his career, Mbo shared clubs with Émile, until he eventually left Standard Liège for Sporting Clube de Portugal, where he won the 2000 league championship as a January transfer.

During his career, he has also played for St. Patricks Athletic, Sporting Fingal, Virginia Beach Mariners, UCD, Notts County F. C and Brighton.

During his career, he played for NK Osijek, NK Zagreb, Club Brugge, AS Monaco, Verona, Sporting CP, Galatasaray, Standard Liege and AC Omonia.