Rabbi Philip R. Alstat, an early leader of Conservative Judaism, known for his fiery rhetoric and powerful oratory skills, wrote and spoke in 1939 about the power of the Passover story during the rise of Nazi persecution and terror:

' Moses-Symeon Pesach ', Chief Rabbi of the Romaniote Greek Jewish community of Volos, central Greece in 1939.

* Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, in 1939, stated that the Nazi persecution of the Jews was the fault of non-Orthodox Jews ( Achiezer, volume III, Vilna 1939 ), in the introduction.

During 1939 and 1940 he established the yeshiva's post-high school beth midrash division and became Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin's senior rosh yeshivah.

Rabbi Eliezer Silver, an Eastern European-trained rabbi, established the first office of Agudath Israel in America during the 1930s, organizing its first conference in 1939.

Following Nazi Germany's attack against Poland in 1939, Rabbi Schneersohn refused to leave Warsaw.

# Grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter ( born 1939 ).

In Kelm, Eliyahu was a diligent student, and would receive semicha ( Rabbinic ordination ) from his uncle, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, who would be the spiritual leader of Orthodox Lithuanian Jewry until his death in 1939 and rarely granted ordinations.

In 1939, he received his ordination as a Rabbi from Hebrew Union College.

A former pupil was then, with the assistance of Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel, able to procure an affidavit of support, which enabled Dr. Breuer and his family to relocate to New York in 1939.

The fifth Kotzker Rebbe was Rabbi Jacob Mendel Morgenstern ( the Vengrov Rebbe, 1887 – 1939 ).

Conservative Rabbi Milton Steinberg fictionalized the life of Elisha ben Abuyah in his controversial 1939 novel, As A Driven Leaf.

***** Rabbi Moshe Labin of Ziditshov-Drubitsh ( d. 1939 ), son of Rabbi Israel Yosef of Ziditshov

Israel Zolli ( September 27, 1881, Brody, Galicia – March 2, 1956, Rome, Italy ) was from 1939 to 1945 Chief Rabbi of Rome.

In 1939, after the " Italians of the Jewish Religion " had succeeded in deposing Zolli's predecessor, Zolli was named as Chief Rabbi of Rome.

* 1939 – Philip Langridge, English opera singer ( d. 2010 )

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

Published in late 1939, biographer Philip Heselton noted that the book was " a very competent first work of fiction ", with strong allusions to the build-up which proceeded World War II.

Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, creating the role of C. K. Dexter Haven opposite Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

Its permanent and current home, now renovated, designed in the International Style by the modernist architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, opened to the public on May 10, 1939, attended by an illustrious company of 6, 000 people, and with an opening address via radio from the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ..

The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe.

Since Infante John's and Infante Peter's deaths in 1939, Infante Philip ( son of Sancho IV and María de Molina, thus brother of Infante Peter ), Juan Manuel ( the king's second-degree uncle by virtue of being Ferdinand III's grandson ) and Juan el Tuerto ( the late Juan's son and the king's second-degree uncle ) split the kingdom among themselves according to their aspirations for regency, even as it was being looted by moors and Levantine nobility.

Today, Chandler's creation, private eye Philip Marlowe — who appears, for example, in his novels The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) and Farewell, My Lovely ( 1940 ) — has achieved cult status and has also been made the topic of literary seminars at universities round the world, whereas on first publication Chandler's novels were seen as little more than cheap entertainment for the uneducated masses.

* Philwold – German for " Phil's Woods " named by Philip Wechsler in 1939 to refer to the area around the 5 homes built by architect Eugene Schoen as a Usonian community for the Weschsler family in 1939.

* Raymond Chandler in his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), lets his private eye Philip Marlowe describe and comment on " a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.

Professor Philip James Stradling Williams ( 11 January 1939 – 10 June 2003 ) was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist.

Philip Henry Niekro ( born April 1, 1939 ), nicknamed " Knucksie " because of his usage and skill level with the knuckleball, is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

* Philip Matthew Hannan, Archbishop of New Orleans ( 1939 – 1948 )

* 1938 – 1939 Major-General Philip Neame

As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe — immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation ( 1946 ) of the novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 )— admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to fit into the extensive set of rules and regulations for police detectives:

In 1939 Philip Levine and Rufus E. Stetson published their findings about a family who had a stillborn baby who died of hemolytic disease of the newborn.

* Stephen Philip de László ( died 7 January 1939 ); married Edith Alexandra Diana von Versen ( died 30 December 1938 )

Philip Frederick Anschutz (; born December 28, 1939 ) is an American entrepreneur.

* Alexander, b & d 1853 ; Ellen Day, 1854 – 1939 ; Arthur, 1859 – 1939 ; Charles Alexander, 1861 – 1867 ; Edward Everett, Jr., 1863 – 1932 ; Philip Leslie, 1865 – 1931 ; Herbert Dudley, 1866 – 1908 ; Henry Kidder, 1868 – 1876 ; Robert Beverly, 1869-1895.

On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall ; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack.

* 1939 – R. C. Sproul, American theologian and author

He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first " futuristicostume " ( designed and created by Myrtle R. Douglas ) and sparked fan costuming, the latest incarnation of which is cosplay.

Seeing the Unseen by Ultra High-Speed Photography ( 1939, with James R. Killian Jr .).

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

In 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify " short " waves ; In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

J. R. Hicks's Value and Capital ( 1939 ) was influential in introducing his English-speaking colleagues to these traditions.

The theorem was discovered independently by R. P. Sprague ( 1935 ) and P. M. Grundy ( 1939 ).

* Bagnold, R. A. 1939.

* Weiner, Douglas R. Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia ( 2000 ) 324pp ; covers 1917 to 1939.

* 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-Lewis R. Foster

Craig R. Barrett ( born August 29, 1939 ) is an American business executive who served as the chairman of the board of the Intel Corporation until May 2009.

The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A. ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939 and 1961 )

Once world-famous, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of John R. Brinkley's XERA, which ceased broadcasting in 1939.

The facilities of the old XERA border blaster which had been created by John R. Brinkley, were confiscated by the Mexican government in 1939 and the license for Villa Acuña remained silent until 1947.

Briagdier General Elliott R. East Wind Rain: The Intimate Account of an Intelligence Officer in the Pacific, 1939 – 49.

In 1922, the novelist Evelyn Waugh came up to Hertford, famously feuding with his history tutor C. R. M. F. Cruttwell ( who was to become the fourth Principal of the refounded College, 1930 – 1939 ), and later naming a number of odious characters after him.

* Van Snowden ( 1939 – 2010 )-Credits included the H. R.

The main aim of this foundation had been to collect and to further the production of abstract art, resulting in the opening of the Museum of Non-objective Painting ( from 1952: The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum ) earlier in 1939 on East 54th Street in Manhattan.

This was opposed within the CPGB by Harry Pollitt and J. R. Campbell, the editor of the Daily Worker, and both were relieved of their duties in October 1939.

In 2003, it emerged that the first inventors were two Dutch naval officers, Theo A. van Hengel ( 1875 – 1939 ) and R. P. C. Spengler ( 1875 – 1955 ) in 1915 ( De Leeuw, 2003 ).

# Bagnold, R. A. 1939.

# Bagnold, R. A. 1939.