Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

A grant application to build a proof of concept prototype was submitted in March 1939 to the Agronomy department which was also interested in speeding up computation for economic and research analysis.

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.

The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.

The Abadan Institute of Technology was established in Abadan in 1939.

The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

Until 1939 iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg hill.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

He was also deeply influenced by Sapir's death in early 1939.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

The city was a Republican stronghold during the Spanish Civil War, and the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the French border.

The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.

At the 11th Academy Awards held on February 23, 1939, La Grande Illusion became the first foreign language film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Finally, in 1939, Garbo was nominated for Ninotchka, but again came away empty-handed.

He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), and Notorious ( 1946 ).

Several of these were nominated for an Academy Award, including The Pointer ( 1939 ), Squatter's Rights ( 1946 ), Pluto's Blue Note ( 1947 ), and Mickey and the Seal ( 1948 ).

He was influential in the May Fourth Movement, one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement, was a president of Peking University, and in 1939 was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature.

Her 1939 nomination marked the first time a British actress in a British film had been nominated for an Academy Award.

Garfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Four Daughters in 1939 and Best Actor for Body and Soul in 1948.

1939 was one of the years in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated ten films for Best Picture:

Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron ( 1931 ), Theodora Goes Wild ( 1936 ), The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), Love Affair ( 1939 ) and I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).

Hopkins also had great success during the remainder of the decade with the romantic screwball comedy The Richest Girl in the World ( 1934 ), the historical drama Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Barbary Coast ( 1935 ), These Three ( 1936 ) ( the first of four films with director William Wyler ) and The Old Maid ( 1939 ).

Arthur continued to star in films such as Howard Hawks ' Only Angels Have Wings in 1939, with love interest Cary Grant, 1942's The Talk of the Town, directed by George Stevens ( also with Grant ), and again for Stevens as a government clerk in 1943's The More the Merrier, for which Arthur was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress ( losing to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette ).

In 1939, Harman created his masterpiece, Peace on Earth, a downbeat morality tale about two squirrels discovering the evils of humanity, which was nominated for an Oscar.

In 1939, Justice Louis D. Brandeis resigned from the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt nominated Douglas as his replacement on March 20.

He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for the film, and was later nominated for The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ) and The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ).

On February 9, 1939, Roosevelt nominated Biddle to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to a seat vacated by Joseph Buffington.

He was head animator on two Academy Award nominated shorts, Educated Fish ( 1937 ) and Hunky and Spunky ( 1939 ).

The purpose of the publication changed markedly when, in 1939, Manfred George was nominated as the new editor.

Manfred George was nominated as the new editor of the Aufbau in 1939.

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Nominated twice for an Oscar, first for The Hurricane ( 1938 ), he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Stagecoach ( 1939 ); later, he would be nominated three times for an Emmy.

After serving Wisconsin in the United States Senate, Duffy was nominated to be a Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 21, 1939 to a seat vacated by Ferdinand August Geiger.

He studied constitutional law at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under Felix Frankfurter, who was subsequently nominated and confirmed ( 1939 ) as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

" He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics four times-1930, 1937, 1939, 1940.

In 1939, he played the lead villain in Destry Rides Again and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the ruthless Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, although the Oscar went to Thomas Mitchell for Stagecoach.