Migrant family from Arkansas playing hill-billy songs, 1939

Much of his early work was financed by his family and commerce, but after 1939 he was given resources by the Nazi German government.

* The Wimsey Papers, published between Nov. 1939 and Jan. 1940 in The Spectator Magazine — a series of mock letters by members of the Wimsey family, being in effect fictionalised commentaries on life in England at the inception of the war.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the family holdings in that country were gone, and all income from there ceased.

He was the first-born son of Giovanni Battista Roncalli ( 1854 – 1935 ) and his wife Marianna Giulia Mazzolla ( 1854 – 1939 ), and fourth in a family of 13, including: Angelo Giuseppe, Alfredo ( 1889 –??

Rural flight from the Great Plains has been depicted in literature, such as John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), in which a family from the Great Plains migrates to California during the Dust Bowl period of the 1930s.

From then until his wife's death in 1939, Stravinsky led a double life, spending some time with his first family and the rest with Vera.

The Tollemache family continued to live in the house until 1939.

The building has not been used as a family residence since 1939.

Bentley Tollemache and his family left Peckforton at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, telling the story through narration of the main character, of his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live.

Falcone was born in 1939 to a middle-class family in the Via Castrofilippo near the seaport district La Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo which suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

Disney first began to negotiate with Harris ' family for the rights in 1939, and by late summer of that year he already had one of his storyboard artists summarize the more promising tales and draw up four boards ' worth of story sketches.

Eliot's poem " The Naming of Cats " ( 1939 ) playfully suggests that every household cat must bear ( besides whatever the family calls him ) two additional names: one an exotic appellation shared by no other cat ; the other forever unutterable because it is known only to the cat himself (" His ineffable effable / Effanineffable / Deep and inscrutable singular Name ").

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, where he worked in a garment factory.

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.

There were various spin-offs as Hersholt co-wrote a Dr. Christian novel and made a series of six family films as Christian from 1939 to 1941, for instance Dr. Christian Meets the Women in 1940.

Until 1939 the island was under private ownership by the Keig family, but in that year the island was purchased by Mr F J Dickens of Silverdale, Lancashire who then donated it to the National Trust to become a bird sanctuary.

From there he and Gretl, with some assistance from Ludwig ( who acquired British nationality in 1939 ), managed to use family finances ( mostly held abroad ) and legal connections to attain non-Jewish status for their sisters.

Travelling through Memphis with his family in 1939 on the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, at the time the heart of the city's music scene.

In 1939, his family emigrated to New York to escape World War II, and he grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.

" Lawyers for the poet's family had new evidence, a 1939 letter from a fascist military official, Juan Bellod, testifying to his innocence.

All of Cookstown's main educational institutions date from this period, Cookstown High School being housed in the Victorian mansion and former residence of the Gunning family at Coolnafranky and the Catholic Church constructing its convent schools and St Mary's Boy's School in 1939 ( now demolished and replaced by Holy Trinity Nursery School ), all on Loy Hill.

The journal began in Strasbourg as Annales d ' histoire économique et sociale ; it moved to Paris and kept the same name from 1929 to 1939.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

Soon after his arrival in New York City ( January 2, 1939 ), Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 While at Columbia from 1939 – 42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

An outstation in the Far East, the Far East Combined Bureau was set up in Hong Kong in 1935, and moved to Singapore in 1939.

In 1937, the Eagles moved to Shibe Park and played their home games at the stadium through 1947, except for the 1941 season, which was played at Municipal Stadium, where they had played from 1936 to 1939.

He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, became a French citizen in 1939, and produced some of his most prominent art.

A few months after World War II broke out in September 1939, Stravinsky moved to the United States.

Rockwell moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939 where his work began to reflect small-town life.

The Bureau of the Budget was moved to the EOP in 1939, and reorganized into OMB in 1970 during the Nixon administration.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

Picasso spent each summer from 1919 to 1939 on the Côte d ' Azur, and moved there permanently in 1946, first at Vallauris, then at Mougins, where he spent his last years.

In 1939 he moved to the United States to Howard University (" Negro Oxford ", as he called it in his autobiography ), where he was rapidly promoted twice, attaining full professorial rank.

The capital was moved from Saigon ( in Cochinchina ) to Hanoi ( Tonkin ) in 1902 and again to Da Lat ( Annam ) in 1939 until 1945, when it moved back to Hanoi.

At the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, the International Secretariat was moved to New York City.

Counterintelligence work was moved from the RCMP's Criminal Investigation Department to a specialized intelligence branch, the RCMP Security Service, in 1939.

Lou Gehrig's speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939 was not reproduced verbatim in the film ; the script condensed and reorganized Gehrig's actual spontaneous and unprepared remarks, and moved the iconic " luckiest man " line from the beginning to the end for heightened dramatic effect.

In January 1939, the show moved from NBC Chicago to the new NBC West Coast Radio City in Hollywood.

In 1939, Lubitsch moved to MGM, and directed Greta Garbo in Ninotchka.

In the early 1940s, Hiller and husband Ronald Gow moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they brought up two children, Ann ( 1939 – 2006 ) and Anthony ( b. 1942 ), and lived together in the house called " Spindles " ( now demolished ).

Some of the buildings from the 1939 Fair were used for the first temporary headquarters of the United Nations from 1946 until it moved in 1951 to its permanent headquarters in Manhattan.

Visits to the theatre in Paris gave Resnais the desire to be an actor, and in 1939 he moved to Paris to become an assistant in Georges Pitoëff's company at the Théâtre des Mathurins.

The election was upheld in 1939, and the county seat moved to Monahans that year.