The three leading candidates for the 1940 Republican nomination were all isolationists to varying degrees: Senators Robert Taft of Ohio and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Thomas E. Dewey, the " gangbusting " District Attorney from New York.

In 1940, Colonel Frank Knox, newly appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy, offered Stevenson a position as Principal Attorney and special assistant.

He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1940 and was then elected Knott County Attorney in 1941 and reelected in 1945.

Robert Houghwout Jackson ( February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954 ) was United States Attorney General ( 1940 – 1941 ) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( 1941 – 1954 ).

Jackson was appointed Attorney General by Roosevelt in 1940, replacing Frank Murphy.

* G. Oliver Koppell ( born 1940 ), former New York State Attorney General and current member of the New York City Council.

Irwin Cotler, PC, OC, MP ( born May 8, 1940 ) was Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul Martin lost power following the 2006 federal election.

McNair was Dysart's right hand, serving as Attorney General until replacing him as premier in 1940.

Mayor of Detroit ( 1930 – 33 ), the last Governor-General of the Philippines ( 1933 – 35 ), U. S. High Commissioner of the Philippines ( 1935 – 36 ), the 35th Governor of Michigan ( 1937 – 39 ), United States Attorney General ( 1939 – 40 ), and United States Supreme Court Associate Justice ( 1940 – 49 ).

After a year as Attorney General, on January 4, 1940, Murphy was nominated by Roosevelt to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, filling a seat vacated by Pierce Butler.

U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Frank Murphy, former Attorney General, Feb. 1940

Born in Hong Kong to Yen Chuen Yih Dunn and Bessie Dunn on 29 February 1940, Lydia Dunn is married to Michael David Thomas ( 唐明治 ), CMG, QC, Attorney General of Hong Kong from 1983 to 1988.

* Earthbound ( 1940 ) ( 20th Century Fox ) ... Defense Attorney

He served as United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1934 to 1940.

In 1940 MacDermott was appointed Minister of Public Security in the Northern Ireland Government, and the following year became the Province's Attorney General.

He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1940 and was then elected Knott County Attorney in 1941 and reelected in 1945.

Returning to Mississippi, Coleman was elected District Attorney in 1940, and served until 1946, when he became judge on the state circuit court.

He was reelected to the Senate in 1922 ( defeating former Senator Newell Sanders ), 1928 ( defeating former U. S. Assistant Attorney General James Alexander Fowler ), 1934 ( again defeating Ben Hooper ), 1940 ( against Howard Baker, Sr., father of future Senator Howard Baker ), and 1946.

Vide Citizens Insurance Company of Canada v. William Parsons ( 1881 ) 7 AC 96 ; The Attorney-General for Ontario v. Attorney-General for the Dominion of Canada 1894 A. C. 189 ; The Attorney General of Ontario v. Attorney-General for the Dominion ( 1896 ) AC 348 ; Union Colliery Company of British Columbia v. Bryden ( 1899 ) AC 580 ; Attorney-General for Canada v. Attorney-General for Ontario ( 1937 ) AC 355 ; Attorney-General for Alberta V. Attorney-General for Canada ( 1939 ) AC 117 and Board of Trustees of Letherbridge Northern Irrigation District v. Independent Order of Foresters ( 1940 ) AC 513.

in 1938, Smathers returned to Miami, where he served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1940 to 1942.

In January 1940, he started working part-time as a Deputy Attorney General under California Attorney General Earl Warren ( who later became Chief Justice of the United States ).

| style =" font-size: 80 %" | Resigned December 31, 1940 to become candidate for Circuit Attorney of St. Louis

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

It was only after the hastily improvised plan for the invasion of Western Europe in 1940 and its successful conclusion, which led the German General Staff to believe that decisive battles were not obsolete.

In August 1940, the territory responded, with the rest of the AEF, to the call from General Charles de Gaulle to fight for Free France.

* 1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.

Total native Italian population for Libya was 110, 575 out of a total population of 915, 440 in 1940 ( General Staff War Office 1939, 165 / b ).

He was promoted acting lieutenant-general in July 1940, and appointed the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief ( GOC-in-C ) of the Southern Command, which was responsible for the defence of south-west England.

* 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.

* 1940 – World War II: 13, 000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).

* 1940 – The Lahore Resolution ( Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore ) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.

An early 6 kW version, built in England by the General Electric Company Research Laboratories, Wembley, London ( not to be confused with the similarly named American company General Electric ), was given to the US government in September 1940.

In June 1940, after the fall of France, the Conseil General of New Caledonia voted unanimously to support the Free French government, and in September the pro-Vichy governor was forced to leave for Indochina.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

The LWS was demonstrated to General Halder on 2 August 1940 by the Reinhardt Trials Staff on the island of Sylt and, though he was critical of its high silhouette on land, he recognised the overall usefulness of the design.

Because of this and his earlier support for De Gaulle he became Governor General of the Afrique Equatoriale Française ( AEF ) in 1940, the first not white to achieve this position in French colonial history.

On 7 May 1940 further modifications to rationalise the ranks system were made on the proposal by Marshal Voroshilov: the ranks of " General " and " Admiral " replaced the senior functional ranks of Combrig, Comdiv, Comcor, Comandarm in the RKKA and Flagman 1st rank etc.

Under the General Government of occupied Poland in 1940, the Nazis divided the population into different groups, each with different rights, food rations, allowed housing strips in the cities, public transportation, etc.

With the 1940 election looming, Menzies lost his Chief of the General Staff and three loyal ministers in a Royal Australian Airforce crash at Canberra airport.

Jackson was Roosevelt's Solicitor General and a possible 1940 Democratic presidential candidate.

* General Motors introduces the Hydra-Matic drive, the first mass-produced, fully automatic transmission, as an option in 1940 model year Oldsmobile automobiles.

NBC had earlier demonstrated an inter-city television broadcast on February 1, 1940, from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas, and began transmitting some programs on an irregular basis to Philadelphia and Schenectady in 1941.

He was commissioned on the General List in 1940 but almost immediately transferred to the Intelligence Corps.

The award ceremony was held on February 29, 1940 in Berkeley, California due to the war, in the auditorium of Wheeler Hall on the campus of the university with Lawrence receiving his medal from Carl E. Wallerstedt, Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.