Summers umpired in 8 World Series ( 1936, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955 and 1959 ), tying the AL record shared by three other arbiters.

* Gene Summers ( born 1939 ), American recording artist

Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

The signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939 not only won Germany an informal alliance with the Soviet Union, but also neutralized Anglo-French attempts to win Turkey to the “ peace front ”.

He won election as the Kings County District Attorney in 1939 and his prosecution of the organized crime syndicate known as Murder, Inc. made him a national celebrity.

In the 1939 he won Belgrade Grand Prix which held in September 3, 1939, the last one before outbreak of World War II.

Several of his novels dealt with a Welsh theme, the best-known being How Green Was My Valley ( 1939 ), which won international acclaim and was made into a classic Hollywood film.

* Robert E. Sherwood won the award in 1936, 1939, and 1941.

A talented musician, he won the college's organ scholarship in his first term ( he had previously tried for the organ scholarships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Keble College, Oxford ) which enabled him to stay at the university for a fourth year ; he eventually graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1939.

The year 1939 was the first of several times he failed at crucial moments of the U. S. Open, the only major event he never won.

* John Ford won the 1939 New York Film Critics Award as Best Director.

The laboratory was founded as the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, associated with the Physics Department, on August 26, 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a site for centering physics research around his new instrument, the cyclotron ( a type of particle accelerator for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 ).

She won the National Board of Review Best Acting Award for Camille, 1936, Ninotchka, 1939, and Two-Faced Woman, 1941.

Hitting his peak in the late 1930s, Nagurski won a limited version of the world championship by defeating Dean Detton on June 29, 1937 ; but he finally achieved full recognition with his first National Wrestling Association world title by defeating Lou Thesz on June 23, 1939.

She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

He won the U. S. Amateur Golf 1939 and 1941.

James Cagney won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his role.

He won the Golden Gloves featherweight championship in 1939, and the organization's lightweight championship in 1940.

His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.

Thomas Handforth won the second Caldecott Medal in 1939, for Mei Li, which he also wrote.

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

In the space of seven years it opened a San Diego branch, moved the Pasadena retail store to larger quarters, started an office furniture department, and launched a popular series of book and author luncheons ( 1939 ).

Its first program was held in February 1939 at which about 150 women ( and a few men ) gathered at the Pasadena Athletic Club to hear Lloyd C. Douglas speak.

He was at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena ( 1936 – 1939 ), and in 1939 he joined the staff of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where he was dean of the College of Engineering from 1966 to 1972.

He played in the first Masters in 1934 and won the Pasadena Open in 1935 ; the Canadian Open in 1939 ; and both the Los Angeles Open and the Phoenix Open in 1944 ( his only head-to-head win against Byron Nelson ).

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

In December 1939, the New York Times wrote, " Miss Leigh's Scarlett has vindicated the absurd talent quest that indirectly turned her up.

Rutherford made her first appearance in London's West End in 1933 but her talent was not recognised by the critics until her performance as Miss Prism in the play The Importance of Being Earnest at the Globe Theatre in 1939.

Forsyth made his television debut in 1939 as a child, singing and dancing on a talent show introduced by Jasmine Bligh, probably an episode of Come and Be Televised ( BBC, 1939 ), broadcast from Radiolympia.

In 1939, MCA's headquarters moved from Chicago to Beverly Hills, California, creating a movie division and beginning to acquire talent agencies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally.

The area was transformed into a garden through the patience and talent of Jacques Greber, landscape architect and consultant to the Great Exhibition in New York in 1939.

Appling was a good leadoff hitter who topped the. 400 mark in OBP eight times ( 1935 – 1937, 1939 – 1940, 1943, 1948 – 1949 ) and drew over 100 walks three times ( 1935, 1939, 1949 ), though he often batted third due to a lack of offensive talent on the White Sox.

The depletion of Canadian talent following that country's entry into World War II in 1939 was the final death blow for the Americans, which suspended operations in 1942 and folded in 1946 without playing another game.

Entering Aftonbladet's talent hunt, Vi som vill opp in 1939, Ramel sang and yawned his own composition, " En sömnig serenad " (" A Sleepy Serenade ").

He began running talent contests while in the US, and continued on his return to Jamaica in 1939.

In 1939 the talent agency MCA asked Bobby Hackett to form a big band with their backing.

By the time of his return from the third of these trips in June 1939 Drysdale was recognised within Australia as an important emerging talent, but had yet to find a personal vision.

After he recovered, however, he reminded everyone of his talent by taking Independiente to the league title in 1938 and 1939.

Her parents felt that she had a special talent for acting at an early age and in 1939 when she was 9 years old they had her audition for a child's role in a radio soap opera on the WNEL Radio Station.

Klein was born into a Moravian Jewish family in Přerov and, showing musical talent early, studied piano with Růžena Kurzová and Vilém Kurz, and composition with Alois Hába ( in 1939 – 1940 ).

In 1939, aged 18, the Amsterdam acting school rejected him for ' lack of talent '.