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 there were other styles that were still important, and these can be considered to lie along a spectrum between the best examples of " continuity cinema " at one extreme, and at the other extreme the " DIS-continuity cinema " of D. W. Griffith.

During the period between World War I and World War II, Jacques Feyder became one of the founders of poetic realism in French cinema.

During the WWI the Polish cinema crossed borders.

During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.

During the 1980s, Hong Kong action cinema had re-invented itself with various new kinds of movies.

During her early years in the Mexican cinema she appeared with stars like Carmen Montejo, Maria Elena Marques, David Silva and others.

During the two weeks of live performance, cinema and art, they worked with human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and his Reprieve organisation which uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners.

During a cinema festival in Sochi in 1996, Sergey Bodrov became acquainted with stage manager Aleksei Balabanov, who invited him to studio STV.

During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema.

During the year 2012 for the first time in the history, 18 leading cinema and TV stars in Srilanka participated in ' Sri Kurusalokaya " / Thambakande Paskuwa 2012 ' passion play which was produced by Negombo Nobleman Prem fernando and cordinated by veteran srilankan film star Cletus Mendis from Negombo.

During this period Hinds met Spanish émigré Enrique Carreras, a former cinema owner, and on 10 May 1935 they formed film distribution company Exclusive Films, operating from a single office at 60-66 National House, Wardour Street.

During the late 1990s, the " Four Heavenly Kings " ( 四大天王 ), namely Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai dominated music, and coverage in magazines, TV, advertisements and cinema.

During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Kunchacko made significant contributions to Malayalam cinema, both as a producer and as director of some notable Malayalam movies.

During the late 1970s, some young artists started seeing Malayalam cinema as a medium of expression and thought of it as a tool to revitalize society.

During the film-noir era of the 1940s and 1950s, the femme fatale flourished in American cinema.

During the 1990s, the change of the communist form of government to a more democratic one led to a big change in the Albanian cinema.

During the 1950s the British photographer Cornel Lucas set up the Pool Studio at Pinewood Studios where he photographed many of the movie stars of this era of cinema, such as Marlene Dietrich and David Niven.

During the conversation, McCarthy talked about his taste in cinema, claiming he's " not that big a fan of exotic foreign films " and citing Five Easy Pieces and Days of Heaven as " good movies " while praising the Coens ' own Miller's Crossing as " a very, very fine movie ".

During the 1960s the running of the cinema was taken over by Mr Coopers daughter Freda, and her husband Jack Aldridge, who had previously ran a local taxi firm.

During the 1990s, some filmmakers, mostly with non-fiction base, started championing a new kind of cinema.

During the early twentieth century cinema as a medium gained popularity across India's population and its many economic sections.