The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

From 1931 until his death in 1939, Sapir taught at Yale University, where he became the head of the Department of Anthropology.

When war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten became commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard his ship Kelly, which was famous for its many daring exploits.

Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

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 ).

Lang became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939.

He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1898, and went on to hold the University of Cambridge chair of mental philosophy and logic, from 1925 to 1939.

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.

Hedwig Potthast, Himmler's young secretary starting in 1936, became his mistress by 1939.

In the 20th century the centre of the education system became more focused on Scotland, with the ministry of education partly moving north in 1918 and then finally having its headquarters relocated to Edinburgh in 1939.

In 1939 Holt's mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the sudden death of the incumbent Joseph Lyons and the short-term caretaker ministry of Sir Earle Page.

In October 1939 he became Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research, and during November – December 1939 he was Acting Minister for Air and Civil Aviation.

* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

After taking around 300, 000 Polish prisoners in 1939 and early 1940, 25, 700 Polish POWs were executed on 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria, in what became known as the Katyn massacre.

In 1939, the FBI became pre-eminent in the field of domestic intelligence.

After graduating from PJC in spring 1939, Robinson transferred to UCLA, where he became the school's first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track.

He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a lecturer at the Parsons School of Design in New York.

On 15 March 1939, German troops occupied the Czech area of Czecho-Slovakia, which then became the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

In the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) Kenya became an important British military base for successful campaigns against Italy in the Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia.

The Soviet Union became a member on 18 September 1934, and was expelled on 14 December 1939 for aggression against Finland.

After the Winter War ( 1939 – 1940 ) according to the Moscow Peace Treaty, Ladoga, previously shared with Finland, became an internal basin of the Soviet Union.

In March 1939, Beria became a candidate member of the Communist Party's Politburo.

Improvised incendiary devices were used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War between July 1936 and April 1939, before they became known as " Molotov cocktails ".

Additionally, the Permanent Commission of the European Parliament " firmly " condemned in a resolution unanimously adopted in March 2006 the " multiple and serious violations " of human rights committed in Spain under the Francoist regime from 1939 to 1975.

The Darwin Mobile Force was raised in 1939, originally as an artillery unit due to restrictions of the Defence Act ( 1903 ) which prohibited the establishment of permanent infantry forces, and was the first Permanent Military Force unit to be raised in the Army.

Hurcomb was Permanent Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Shipping from 1939, and then of its successor the Ministry of War Transport from 1941 until 1947.

He left the Permanent Air Force in 1936 to join the Civil Aviation Board, but re-joined at the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Cobby was a member of the Citizen Air Force ( RAAF reserve ) during his time with the Civil Aviation Board, and rejoined the Permanent Air Force following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.

It was created in 1939 for the Liberal politician Cecil Harmsworth, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1919 and 1922. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1990.

Their eldest son, the third Baron, represented North Cumberland in the British House of Commons as a Unionist from 1922 to 1926 and served in the National Government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1931 to 1934 and as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1934 to 1939. the title is held by the latter's son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1959.

As early as August 1939, Albert Einstein had warned U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt about this research and that: "... the son of the German Under-Secretary of State, von Weizsäcker, is attached to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Berlin where some of the American work on uranium is now being repeated.

Dundee was Unionist Member of Parliament ( MP ) for West Renfrewshire from 1931 until 1945 and served as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1936 to 1939.

He held office as Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1925 – 1929, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs from January – June 1929, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1931 – 1932, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1932 to 1936, and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1936 – 1939.

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

In 1939, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed the Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ), The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer.

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The Venerable Pope Pius XII (; ), born Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli ( 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958 ), reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958.

" His various positions on Church and policy issues during his tenure as Cardinal Secretary of State were made public by the Holy See in 1939.

However, in June 1939 the people of Hatay had formed a new independent State and immediately after, the parliament voted to unite with Turkey.

Hatay Province remained a part of the French Mandate of Syria according to the Treaty of Lausanne, but in 1938 gained its independence as the Hatay State, which later joined Turkey after a referendum in 1939.

In 1939, Illinois State Senator William " Botchy " Connors remarked " You couldn't give that guy a nickel, that's how honest he is.

* Stefan Korboński, Zofia Korbońska, F. B. Czarnomski: Fighting Warsaw: the Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939 – 1945, Hippocrene Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7818-1035-7.

In September 1939, Britain and the self-governing Dominions, but not the Irish Free State, declared war on Nazi Germany.

Irkutsk is home to the East Siberian Education Academy ( since 1909 ), Irkutsk State University ( 1918 ), Irkutsk State Medical University ( 1918 ), Baykalsky State University of Economics and Law ( since 1932 ), Irkutsk State Technical University ( since 1939 ), Irkutsk State Academy of Agriculture, Irkutsk State Linguistic University ( 1948 ), Irkutsk State Railway Transport University ( since 1975 ), and a number of private colleges: Siberian Institute of Law, Economics and Management ( since 1993 ), Institute of Economics of ISTU ( since 1996 ), and others.

** Rafai ca. 1875 Sultanate, 8 April 1892 under Congo Free State protectorate, March 31, 1909 under French protectorate ; 1939 Sultanate suppressed

** Darius Kinsey Photographs Images from 1890 – 1939, documenting the logging industry in Washington State.

* Charles, Douglas M. J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939 – 45.

San Saba County is home to the only suspension bridge open to traffic in the State ; the Regency Bridge spanning the Colorado River, located off FM 500 in the northern part of the county, was built in 1939.

Agencies that hold records for marriages and divorces from 1900 to 1939 are the Colorado State Archives and Denver Public Library Genealogy Department.