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 the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women.

During the 2010 Census of Russia, the authorities rejected the claim from a group of mostly mixed race Ainu living in Kamchatka that they are not extinct.

During this time he had officially as students Michel Demazure ( who worked on SGA3, on group schemes ), Luc Illusie ( cotangent complex ), Michel Raynaud, Jean-Louis Verdier ( cofounder of the derived category theory ) and Pierre Deligne.

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

During most of its existence, the cabal ( sometimes capitalized ) steadfastly denied its own existence ; those involved would often respond " There is no Cabal " ( sometimes abbreviated as " TINC "), whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.

During the Warsaw Uprising ( 1944 ), a Poles | Polish couple, members of an Armia Krajowa resistance group, are married in a secret Catholic chapel in a street in Warsaw.

During the period Pissarro exhibited his works, art critic Armand Silvestre had called Pissarro the " most real and most naive member " of the Impressionist group.

During his return, Thompson was delayed by an angry group of Peigan natives which ultimately forced him to seek a new route across the Rocky Mountains through the Athabasca Pass.

During his recovery from a heart attack late in 1955, he huddled with his closest advisors to evaluate the GOP's potential candidates ; the group, in addition to his doctor, concluded a second term was well advised, and he announced in February 1956 he would run again.

During a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor.

During the 1990s, deprogrammer Rick Ross was sued by Jason Scott, a former member of a Pentecostal group called the Life Tabernacle Church, after an unsuccessful deprogramming attempt.

During the 1990s, Rick Ross, a noted cult intervention advocate who took part in a number of deprogramming sessions, was sued by Jason Scott, a former member of a Pentecostalist group called the Life Tabernacle Church ( part of United Pentecostal Church International ), after an unsuccessful forcible deprogramming.

During their time in Rome, Fermi and his group made important contributions to many practical and theoretical aspects of physics.

During breakfast at dawn, Granger ( leader of the group of wandering intellectuals ) discusses the legendary phoenix and its endless cycle of long life, death in flames, and rebirth, adding that the phoenix must have some relation to mankind, which constantly repeats its mistakes, but that man has something the phoenix doesn't.

* 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U. S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

During the period of 8500-7500 BC another hunter-gatherer group, showing clear affinities with the cultures of Egypt ( particularly the Outacha retouch technique for working stone ) was in Sinai.

During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of rigid hierarchical government on the Greeks, while keeping most significant state offices away from them.

During the group matches Cronje had threatened to lead his team off after Pat Symcox had missiles thrown at him, Symcox had the last laugh ending the match with 4 / 24.

During the years of MK's underground struggle the group was supported by Libya.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he spent much of his time at sea on his personal fleet of ships as " Commodore " of the Sea Organization, an elite inner group of Scientologists.

During the tournament, Hewitt won all matches in his group, before defeating Sébastien Grosjean, 6 – 3, 6 – 3, 6 – 4, in the finals to take the title and gain the world no.