Howe into positions of great power and influence during the War, but was hit hard by the 1940 air-crash death of key minister and protege Norman McLeod Rogers.

* Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character ( d. 1940 )

It was also adapted as an hour-long play on Lux Radio Theater with Ginger Rogers and Fredric March ( January 22, 1940 ) and on Screen Director's Playhouse with Lucille Ball and Robert Cummings ( March 8, 1951 ).

Louisiana singer / composer Jimmie Davis began recording for Decca the same year, joined by western vocalists Jimmy Wakely and Roy Rogers in 1940.

In addition to his own movies, Rogers played a supporting role in the John Wayne classic Dark Command ( 1940 ).

With money from not only Rogers ' films but his own public appearances going to Republic Pictures, Rogers brought a clause into a 1940 contract with the studio where he would have the right to his likeness, voice and name for merchandising.

On June 10, 1940 the Minister of National Defence, Norman McLeod Rogers was killed when his VIP airplane crashed in Ontario.

* July 25-Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Minister ( d. 1940 )

From 1940 to 1990, actress and dancer Ginger Rogers owned the Rogue River Ranch, operated for many years as a dairy farm, near Eagle Point.

He married Hollywood actress Phyllis Fraser, a cousin of Ginger Rogers, on September 17, 1940.

* Bobby Rogers ( born 1940 ), American Motown singer / songwriter, member of The Miracles

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ; Dark Command ( 1940 ) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers ; They Drive By Night ( 1940 ) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart ; High Sierra ( 1941 ) with Lupino and Bogart again ; They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ) with Errol Flynn as Custer ; The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ; Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft ; and White Heat ( 1949 ) with Cagney.

A dirt road was built on the east bank around the big bend, from Revelstoke to Golden, from 1930 to 1937, opening officially in 1940, and it served as the trans-provincial highway until 1962 when the Rogers Pass route was opened.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

His 43 home runs in 1940 broke the Cardinal record of 42 set by Rogers Hornsby in 1922 – and remained the record until Mark McGwire hit 70 in 1998.

In 1940, Rogers was responsible for bringing Social Credit into the all-party coalition government proposed by Liberal-Progressive Premier John Bracken.

* Rogers, Meyric, Carl Milles, An Interpretation of His Work, ( Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1940 )

In 1940, Carl Rogers had launched what would become person-centered psychotherapy, ' crediting its roots in the therapy of Rank ...& in the neo-Freudian analysts-especially Karen Horney '.

In the 1940s, Wood directed Ginger Rogers through her Oscar-winning performance in Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ).

* 1940 Attic figures of Meriwether Lewis, George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone and John James Audubon, American Museum of Natural History, New York City

* Edith Rogers ( Alberta politician ), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1935 – 1940

A lengthy northern extension was added to M-33 in 1940 when US 23 was moved to a route along the Lake Huron shoreline between Rogers City and Cheboygan.

In 1940, penicillin became available for medicinal use to treat bacterial infections in humans.

The devices were largely removed when the enemy became used to the noise, after the Battle of France in 1940, bombs sometimes having whistles attached instead.

In 1940 " New San Antonio Rose " sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys.

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

The Futurians became less fan-oriented and more professional after 1940.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

Emperor Jimmu became the object of national commemoration in February 1940.

The shipyard was expanded in 1940 and became a branch of the Kiel shipyard ( Deutsche Werke Kiel A. G .).

After emigrating from Germany in 1933, in 1934, Marcuse immigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen in 1940.

After taking around 300, 000 Polish prisoners in 1939 and early 1940, 25, 700 Polish POWs were executed on 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria, in what became known as the Katyn massacre.

After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.

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 1940 he became a professor of psychology at the University of Königsberg.

After the Winter War ( 1939 – 1940 ) according to the Moscow Peace Treaty, Ladoga, previously shared with Finland, became an internal basin of the Soviet Union.

In 1940 it was annexed by the Soviet Union, joined to the Moldavian ASSR, and became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic until the dissolution of the USSR.

In 1940, under the pen-name " Cato " he and two other Beaverbrook journalists ( Frank Owen, editor of the Standard, and Peter Howard of the Daily Express ) published Guilty Men, a Left Book Club book attacking the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government that became a run-away best-seller.

In 1940, the forms became more abstract, proportions changed.

The Economy Run originated with the Gilmore Oil Company of California in 1936 ( which was purchased by Socony-Vacuum in 1940 ) and later became the Mobilgas Economy Run and still later, the Mobil Economy Run.

Later in the spring of 1940, the Kriegsmarine became even more opposed to invading Britain after its Pyrrhic victory in Norway.

Brazzaville hereby became the capital of the so-called Free French in Africa, ruled in theory by a Conseil de défense de l ' Empire set up by De Gaulle on 27 October 1940.

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.