It was while working for Rapp in 1939 that she adopted the stage name " Day " as an alternative to " Kappelhoff ," at his suggestion.

By 1939 her marriage to Pollock was in difficulties, and she began a series of affairs.

Eka-caesium was discovered in 1939 by Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris, France when she purified a sample of actinium-227 which had been reported to have a decay energy of 220 keV.

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

From 1936 to 1939 she carried out important excavations at the Jewry Wall in the city of Leicester.

On September 12, 1939 she was in the town of Końskie when 30 civilians were executed there, in retaliation for an alleged attack on German soldiers.

In 1939, the German Colonial Gazette ( of Angola ) published a letter by Frau Ilse von Nolde, who asserted that she had heard of the animal called " coye ya menia " (" water lion ") from many claimed eyewitnesses, both natives and settlers.

She attended the Girls ' Latin School of Chicago ( describing herself as an average student ), graduated in 1939, and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and drama and graduated in 1943.

Commissioned in 1939, she was successful during World War II until she was lost to friendly fire in 1944

Ava Gardner attended high school in Rock Ridge and she graduated from there in 1939.

Tone began drinking and physically abusing Crawford and she filed for divorce, which was granted in 1939.

María lived for a time at home with her parents until 1939, when she traveled with her son to Mexico City.

A prominent feature of the latter are numerous royal walkabouts, the tradition of which was initiated in 1939 by Queen Elizabeth when she was in Ottawa and broke from the royal party to speak directly to gathered veterans.

With her savings she was able to spend some time in Europe, but was forced to return to Canada in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II.

Davis in the trailer for Dark Victory ( 1939 ), in which she gave one of her ten Oscar-nominated performances

Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather ( much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California so that he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios ).

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

In 1939, Germany prepared for war with Poland, but attempted to gain territorial concessions from Poland through diplomatic means.

" Hitler thus intended to prevent internal friction like that occurring earlier in Poland in 1939, when several German Army generals had attempted to bring Einsatzgruppen leaders to trial for the murders they had committed.

In the second, from 1939 – 43, Ribbentrop attempted to persuade other states to enter the war on Germany's side or at least maintain pro-German neutrality.

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The laws, passed in 1922, 1930, and 1939, varied in severity, but all attempted to find a balance between British sympathies with the Jews and the Arabs.

Raeder supported the idea of aggression against Poland, but on 31 March 1939 the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had announced the “ guarantee " of Poland, by which Britain would go to war against any nation that attempted to end Polish independence.

In 1938, it coincided with the Kristallnacht, and in 1939 with the attempted assassination of Hitler by Georg Elser.

In 1939, the Soviet Union unsuccessfully attempted an invasion of Finland, subsequent to which the parties entered into an interim peace treaty granting the Soviet Union the eastern region of Karelia ( 10 % of Finnish territory ), and the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was established by merging the ceded territories with the KASSR.

Already in his 1939 book Business Cycles, he attempted to refine the innovative ideas of Nikolai Kondratieff and his long-wave cycle which Schumpeter believed was driven by technological innovation.

Liddell Hart, whose position as Military Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and The Times newspapers ( 1925 – 1939 ) gave him great public influence, was a critic of Douglas Haig and attempted to use the battle to indicate a " new " form of doctrine.

The US also attempted to follow treaty limitations as it completed seven of its nine Brooklyn class cruisers between 1938 and September 1939.

Later generations have attempted to recapture the impression it made in fictional and artistic treatments, sometimes seriously, as in 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, a mixed non-fiction and fictional book by David Gelernter, or World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow, but often with ironic intent, notably in Matt Groening's show Futurama which was named after the GM exhibit.

Mussolini claimed that he had never totally abandoned his left-wing influences, insisting he had attempted to nationalize property in 1939 – 1940 but had been forced to delay such action for tactical reasons related to the war.

In December 1944 they were transferred from Dachau to Slovenia, together with Milan Nedić, the Serbian collaborationist PM, and German general Hermann Neubacher, the first Nazi mayor of Vienna ( 1938 – 1939 ), as the Nazis attempted to make use of Patriarch Gavrilo's and Nikolaj's authority among the Serbs in order to gain allies in the anti-Communist movements.

Months later, the former ruling class responded with an attempted coup causing the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ).

In February 1939 she checked into a hotel in London and attempted suicide.

He attempted to return in 1939, but was arrested and sent back to Zarasai.

When Murray attempted to regain custody of her son in 1939, Cunning and her other brothers, John, Ambrose, and Cortland, refused, according to the New York Times, at which time Murray and her former husband, Mdivani, entered a bitter custody dispute.

Sub-paragraph B was intended by Hitler to prevent the sort of friction that had occurred in Poland in 1939 when several German Army generals had attempted to bring Einsatzgruppen leaders to trial for the murders they had committed.

The earliest of these visas were issued in the months between the 1939 and mid-1940 decrees, a period during which he attempted to protect his family by sending all but two sons home to Portugal and sending constant telegrams to Lisbon with coded requests for approval of the visas, in order to preserve his post while obeying his conscience.

A group of Labour and Liberal MPs attempted to annul Code B in Parliament on 31 October 1939 but were persuaded to withdraw their motion in favour of consultation which produced a slightly amended wording.

Having unsuccessfully attempted to establish a film company between the wars, Ridley rejoined the army in 1939 with the rank of Major.

Returning to France, Clair attempted to make another film there in 1939, Air pur, which was to be a celebration of youth and childhood, but the outbreak of war interrupted filming and it was abandoned.

Taylor attempted to discredit the document by using the fact that the future annexations described in the ' contingencies ' were unlike those that occurred in 1939, but opposing historians, such as Taylor's arch-rival, Hugh Trevor-Roper, have pointed out that the memorandum still demonstrated an intention for adding Austria, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and Poland to the Reich.