* A GAME OF BOWLS ( 1939 ) ( archive film of a bowling match at the Whitevale and Kingswood Bowling Clubs, Glasgow-from the National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE )

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

* Daniel Schorr ( 1939 ), Emmy award winning broadcast journalist for CBS-TV and National Public Radio

On 30 June 1939 legislation ceased the CCC program to be an independent agency, transferred to the Federal Security Agency along with the Social Security Board, National Youth Administration, U. S. Employment Service, the Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.

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

* 1939 – Indian Muslims observe a " Day of Deliverance " to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with Britain.

Indeed in 1939, laws were passed that allowed Muslims to be permitted to join the National Fascist Party and in particular the Muslim Association of the Lictor ( Associazione Musulmana del Littorio ), and the 1939 reforms allowed the creation of Libyan military units within the Italian army.

The National Liberation War of the Albanian people started with the Italian invasion in Albanian on 7 April 1939 and ended on 28 November 1944.

This was done by Luis W. Alvarez and Robert Cornog in cyclotron experiments at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California in 1939.

* In 1939, the National Academy of Sciences awarded Hoover its Public Welfare Medal.

* 1939 – John Negroponte, American diplomat, 1st Director of National Intelligence

In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).

* National Action Party ( Partido Acción Nacional, PAN ), founded in 1939 ;

* 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.

In the summer of 1939 the Nazis themselves actually banned the continued use of the term in the press, ordering it to use expressions such as nationalsozialistisches Deutschland (" National Socialist Germany "), Grossdeutsches Reich (" Greater German Reich "), or simply Deutsches Reich ( German Reich ) to refer to the German state instead.

* St. Louis Gunners, 1934 member of National Football League that joined the minor AFL in 1939

During wartime the National Council ( 1939 – 1945 ) was established to represent the legislature as part of the Polish Government in Exile.

His government also made the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a crown corporation in 1936, created Trans-Canada Airlines ( the precursor to Air Canada ) in 1937, and formed the National Film Board of Canada in 1939.

* Jerzy Ogonowski, Uprawnienia językowe mniejszości narodowych w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918 – 1939 ( The Language Rights of National Minorities in the Second Republic of Poland, 1918 – 1939, Polish with an English summary ), Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warsaw, 2000

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

Rrom September 1939 to August 1940, he was Under Secretary to Sir Norman Birkett in the Home Office Advisory Committee, and later became President of the Committee.

An Advisory Committee on Uranium had been established to consider the feasibility of an atomic bomb as part of the National Bureau of Standards during 1939 as the result of the Einstein – Szilárd letter, but had not made significant progress.

Perl graduated with a degree in engineering in 1939, and in 1940 began working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) at their Langley Army Air Base research facility in Hampton, Virginia.

By 1934, Dryden was appointed the bureau's Chief of the Mechanics and Sound Division, and in 1939 he became a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ).

Captain was the head of the Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs from March 1939 until April 1942.

Chernenko then steadily rose through the Party ranks, becoming the Director of the Krasnoyarsk House of Party Enlightenment then in 1939, the Deputy Head of the AgitProp Department of Krasnoyarsk Territorial Committee and finally, in 1941 he was appointed Secretary of the Territorial Party Committee for Propaganda.

Polo is now an active sport in 77 countries, and although its tenure as an Olympic sport was limited to 1900 – 1939, in 1998 the International Olympic Committee recognised it as a sport with a bona fide international governing body, the Federation of International Polo.

In 1939, in response to a question from the Oxford English Dictionary, the Admiralty made up the story that it stood for ' Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee ', and this is still widely believed, though no committee bearing this name has been found in the Admiralty archives.

In June 1939, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) awarded the 1944 Olympic Summer Games to London, ahead of Rome, Detroit, Budapest, Lausanne, Helsinki, Montreal and Athens.

Based on the recommendations of a presidentially commissioned panel of political science and public administration experts, the Brownlow Committee, Roosevelt was able to get Congress to approve the Reorganization Act of 1939.

From 1936 to 1939 he was secretary of the Mathematics Committee in The Council of Science and Applied Sciences.

He became a member of the Communist Party in 1939 and was First Secretary of the Central Committee of Komsomol in the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic from 1940 to 1944.

From 1937 to 1939 he worked his way up the party ladder, and at the Second Congress of the Indochina Communist Party, he was elected to its Central Committee.

* John J. Dickerson ( 1900 – 1966 ), politician who served as Mayor of Palisades Park from 1939 – 1952, and was Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.

Former Township Committee member Frank Salvato, re-elected in 2008, served until his death in 2011 at the age of 98, having been first elected to the Committee in the 1938 and served as mayor in 1939, the township's youngest.

KdF was awarded the 1939 Olympic Cup by the International Olympic Committee.

In 1939, Van Zeeland became president of the Committee on Refugees, established in London, and was made High Commissioner for the repatriation of displaced Belgians in 1944.

The Committee of Imperial Defence, a parallel Cabinet for military policy which existed from 1904 until 1939, included ministers, heads of the armed services, and civil servants.

In 1939 the Birkett Committee recommended a change to abortion laws but the intervention of World War II meant that all plans were shelved.

The AICPA first created the Committee on Accounting Procedure in 1939, and replaced that with the Accounting Principles Board in 1951.

< ul > In 1939, urged by the SEC, the AICPA appointed the Committee on Accounting Procedure ( CAP ).

The America First Committee launched a petition aimed at enforcing the 1939 Neutrality Act and forcing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of the war.

He also held important posts at the Composers ' Union, becoming deputy chairman of the Moscow branch in 1937, then appointed vice-chairman of the Organizing Committee of Soviet Composers in 1939.

Organized research first began in Britain as part of the " Tube Alloys " project, and in the United States a small amount of funding was given for research into uranium weapons, starting in 1939 with the Uranium Committee under Lyman James Briggs.