Blind Willie McTell doing a recording for John Lomax in an Atlanta hotel room, 1940.

John A. Lomax served as president of the Texas Folklore Society for the years 1940 – 41, and 1941 – 42.

Both of these were produced by Alan Lomax on General, the label that had issued his Jelly Roll Morton recordings in 1940.

An interest in radio broadcasting and acoustics ultimately resulted in his appointment to the Acoustical and Record Laboratory of the Library of Congress in 1940 ; in this capacity he toured the American South with Alan Lomax recording the folk music of this region.

* 1940 – Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

Britain formed close bonds with the Soviet Union ( starting in 1941 ) and the United States ( starting in 1940 ), with the U. S. giving $ 40 billion in munitions through Lend Lease ; Canada also gave aid.

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

Varian Fry and his close associate Miriam Davenport, c. 1940

Foreign policy involved support for Britain in the world wars, and close relations after 1940 with the United States and Australia.

Between 1935 and 1940, Patton and Eisenhower developed a very close friendship to the level where the Patton and Eisenhower families were spending summer vacations together.

In 1940 her close friend and spiritual advisor Lord Lothian died too.

In 2006, after a rain storm left the area saturated, the Blackwater River crested at close to 23 feet, the highest crest since 1940 excluding the flood in 1999

The smelters began to close in 1931, and major industry had nearly vanished by 1940.

His chief of staff was Lieutenant General Aksel Airo, while his close friend, General Rudolf Walden, was sent as a representative of the headquarters to the cabinet from 3 December 1939 until 27 March 1940, after which he became defence minister.

Virginia Woolf, Vanessa's sister, novelist and a close friend of Roger as well, was entrusted with writing his biography, published in 1940.

This was close to village of East Chaldon where his brother, the author Theodore Powys, lived from 1904 until 1940.

He was educated at Dartington Hall School and subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music, where one of his contemporaries and close friends was Malcolm Arnold, who composed in 1940 a Grand Fantasia for flute, trumpet and piano for him and a pianist, premiered in February 1941.

After Mohr married in 1937, she was required to resign her position ( the BDM required members to be unmarried and without children in order to remain in leadership positions ), and was succeeded by Dr. Jutta Rüdiger, a doctor of psychology from Düsseldorf, who was a more assertive leader than Mohr but nevertheless a close ally of Schirach, and also of his successor from 1940 as HJ leader, Artur Axmann.

He finished second in the Kiev Championship when he was only 15, and achieved the Soviet Master title at age 16 for his second-place result in the 1940 Ukrainian Chess Championship, behind Isaac Boleslavsky, with whom he became close friends both on and off the chessboard.

In 1940, he married Salma, who was his distant relative and had been living in a common house with him since childhood, however, the purdah system was vogue in their family and they were not close.

Between these two books comes Testament of Friendship ( published in 1940 ), which is essentially a memoir of Brittain's close colleague and friend, Winifred Holtby.

In December 1940, he met Georges Bataille, who had written strong anti-fascist articles in the thirties, and who would remain a close friend until his death in 1962.

In 1940 Hans Hass completed Pirsch unter Wasser ( i. e. Stalking under Water ) which was published by the Universum Film AG, lasted originally only 16 minutes and was shown in theatres before the main movie, but would eventually be extended by additional filming done in the Adriatic Sea close to Dubrovnik.

On his return to the United States in 1940, Seldes published Witch Hunt, an account of the persecution of people with left-wing political views in America, and The Catholic Crisis, which sought to demonstrate the close relationship between the Catholic Church and fascist organizations in Europe.

It was badly damaged during World War II, when a German bomb fell in the river near Tower Pier in December 1940 and exploded on the river bed very close to the tunnel's roof.

A large part of Finnish Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union in 1940 after the Soviet aggression known as the Winter War when the new border was established close to that of 1721.

He came close to losing his life when, in December 1940, the ship he was on was torpedoed while crossing the Atlantic.

After weeks of practice, Berry, Ginsburg, and Torrence planned to record a demo recording in Berry's garage, but Torrance was conscripted into the United States Army Reserve forcing Berry and Ginsburg to record " Jennie Lee " without Torrence, with Berry's friend and fellow University High student Donald J. Altfeld ( born March 18, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) " belting out the rhythm on a children's metal high chair ".

After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there.

In a letter to his friend Peter Baynes, dated 12 August 1940, Jung wrote a passage: "...

Chrysler, Jr. was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1940 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.

President Franklin Roosevelt visited the town in 1940 to attend a memorial service for his friend and supporter, William Bankhead.

In 1940, journalist and Soviet agent Kim Philby applied for a vacancy in Section D of SIS, and was vetted by his friend and fellow Soviet agent Guy Burgess.

Freeman was a 1940 graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he met his lifelong friend and political ally, Hubert Humphrey, and his future wife and lifelong partner Jane Shields.

Darnell and Marley started seeing each other in 1940, and the press dismissed him as her " devoted friend and escort.

In August 1940, the British set up Mission 101 led by Colonel Daniel Sandford, a close friend and advisor of Haile Selassie and who had encouraged him to return from Britain.

Offered to work in Hollywood at the height of his career as the " Voice of the Southland ", Austin appeared in three films, Belle of the Nineties ( 1934 ), Klondike Annie ( 1936 ) and My Little Chickadee ( 1940 ), at the request of his personal friend, Mae West.

In May 1940, as a trusted friend of Chamberlain, Wood told him " affectionately but firmly " that after the debacle of the British defeat in Norway and the ensuing Commons debate, Chamberlain's position as Prime Minister was impossible and he must resign.

Via Joop Köhler, a friend of the family who was commissioner at Ajax, Michels was introduced to the club and became a junior member in 1940.

In 1940 he enlisted in the Army, and was sent for training with the Royal Artillery in Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales, where he trained alongside his friend Eric Ambler.

* Hendrik Christian Andersen ( 1872 – 1940 ), sculptor, friend of Henry James

On 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain, RAF Squadron Leader Geoffrey Crisp ( David Niven ), the station commander of a Spitfire squadron, recounts the story of how his friend, R. J. Mitchell ( Leslie Howard ) designed the Spitfire fighter.

The grounds of Osterley Park were used for the training of the first members of the Local Defence Volunteers ( forerunners of the Home Guard ) when the 9th Earl, a friend of publisher Lord Hulton, allowed writer and military journalist Captain Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school ( which Hulton sponsored ) at the park in May / June 1940, teaching the theory and practice of modern mechanical warfare, guerilla warfare techniques and using the estate workers ' homes, then scheduled for demolition, to teach street fighting techniques.

The unselfish and heroic deeds of Miriam Davenport during World War II received almost no public recognition of any kind until 1980 when her friend Mary Jayne Gold published a book titled Crossroads Marseilles, 1940 that recounted the events.

* Tear Gas Squad ( 1940 ) ( as DeWolf Hopper ), George, Lois ' friend