It was originally built in 1940 by the YMCA for entertainment, recreation and relaxation for staff and patients at the hospital.

* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )

* Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board was formed in 1919 to take control of Melbourne's cable tram network, six of the seven electric tramway companies and the last horse tram, by 1940 all cable and horse tram lines had been abandoned or converted to either electric tram or bus operation.

Fantasia ranked fifth at the 1940 National Board of Review Awards in the Top Ten Films category.

Mayor of Columbiana for two terms, delegate to the Democratic National Convention from the sixth Congressional District of Alabama in 1940 and 1948, member of the Code Committee of the Alabama Legislature in 1940 and a member of the State Board of Education.

Another notable resident of the town is Dick Stemple ( born 1940 ) is a member of the Board of Directors ( Immediate Past Chairman ) for the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

The 1940 / 1942 Decca Porgy and Bess recording with members of the original cast was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress, National Recording Registry in 2003.

As part of the 1935 – 1940 " New Works Programme " of the London Passenger Transport Board the majority of the Woodford to Ilford loop was to be transferred to form the eastern extensions of the Central line.

He was elected to a six-year term on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors ( a non-partisan office ) in 1941, just after his brother Carl Zeidler was elected Mayor of Milwaukee in 1940.

The Ozaukee County Board in 1940 voted to assume the preservation and maintenance of this bridge.

The IRT and BMT systems were acquired by the city on June 1, 1940 and consolidated with the IND into the New York City Board of Transportation ( NYCBOT ).

Past 100 years old he continued to serve as the chairman of the Trollope Society and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roxbury Latin School, having graduated from there in 1919 and served as a Trustee since 1940 ; among his philanthropic activities were generous donations both to the School and to Harvard University.

Between 1924 and 1940, he was the vice-Chairman of the Board of the International Bank, and one of the members of a number of societies and companies.

In 1940, the BMT was purchased by the City of New York, and operation passed to the city's Board of Transportation, which already operated the city-built Independent Subway System ( IND ).

* Postmaster General James Farley occupied two adjoining suites in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers during his tenure as the Chairman of the Board of Coca-Cola's International division from 1940 until his death in 1976, arguably one of the landmark's longest housed tenants.

The town was elevated to the status of a Municipal Board in 1940 and later to a Municipal Council in 1960.

In January 1940, after disagreements with the Chiefs of Staff, Hore-Belisha resigned from the National Government, refusing a move to the post of President of the Board of Trade.

The name became John McNeese Junior College in 1940 by resolution of the University Board of Supervisors in honor of this pioneer educator of Lake Charles.

In 1940, he represented the New York Board of Higher Education in its unsuccessful effort to retain Bertrand Russell on the faculty of the City College of New York ; Russell was declared " morally unfit " to teach.

The Board on Geographic Names settled on " Salem River " as the stream's name in 1940.

Roosevelt appointed Hillman to the National Defense Advisory Committee in 1940 and named him associate director of the Office of Production Management in 1941 ; when FDR created the War Production Board in 1942, he appointed Hillman to serve as the head of its labor division.

The wooden planchette was manufactured c. 1940 by the Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, and was sold with a version of a Ouija board called the " Hasko Mystic Board.

In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt split the authority into two agencies, the Civil Aeronautics Administration ( CAA ) and the Civil Aeronautics Board ( CAB ).

Meanwhile in 1940 the British rulers in Delhi formed a Board for scientific and Industrial Research ( BSIR ) with Bhatnagar as the head.

Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer Directors, 1940 to the Present.

* Art Directors: William S. Darling 7 nominations ( 1933, 36, 37, 39, 43, 44, 46 )/ 3 wins, Vincent Korda 4 nominations ( 1940 – 42, 62 ) / 1 win ( 1940 ), Joseph Kish 5 nominations ( 1944, 48, 59, 65 )/ 1 win ( 1965 ), Marcel Vértes 1 nomination, Alexandre Trauner 2 nominations ( 1961, 76 )/ 1 win ( 61 ).

He was president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1915 to 1919, and served on its Board of Directors until 1940.

He sat on the Sierra Club Board of Directors from 1898 through 1940, and at various times was VP, secretary, treasurer, and outings chair.

Johnson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Directors Guild of America Best Directors Award in 1956 for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

It took a Federal court ruling in 1940 to establish that a recording artist had no legal right to control the use of a record after it was sold.

In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

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.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

Because of the plant's deep secrecy and the difficult nature of the production process, it took from January 1940 until June 1942 for the plant to become fully operational.

In three days troops loyal to De Gaulle took control of Chad ( 26 August 1940 ), Cameroon ( 27 August ) and of Middle Congo ( the 28th of August ).

In 1940, celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of his most popular opera, Cavalleria rusticana, took place all over Italy, often with Mascagni conducting.

The premiere of the Shostakovich orchestration of 1940 of Pavel Lamm's vocal score took place on 4 November 1959 at the Kirov Theatre.

The " Axis powers " formally took the name after the Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan on 27 September 1940, in Berlin.

During the Battle of Dakar, which took place off the coast of Dakar on September 23 – 25, 1940, the British navy attempted to rally the colonial administration in Dakar to the Allied cause and detach it from Vichy.

In 1940, Foucault's mother took him from his previous school and enrolled him in the Collège Saint-Stanislas, a strict Roman Catholic institution run by the Jesuits ; here, he remained lonely, with few friends.

During World War II, Thailand took the opportunity of French weaknesses to reclaim previously lost territories, resulting in the French-Thai War between October 1940 and 9 May 1941.

Thailand took this opportunity of weakness to reclaim previously lost territories, resulting in the French-Thai War between October 1940 and 9 May 1941.

Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell from a conversation that took place on 23 December 1940.

Abbott's nephew, John H. Sengstacke, took over the Defender in 1940.

After the outbreak of the 2nd World War the War Department took over the Stadium in 1940, where for a while POWs ( Prisoners of War ) were housed in huts placed on the pitch, for this the club received compensation of £ 4, 570 in 1945.

The town was virtually razed to the ground during World War II, when in May 1940, it was a strategic bombing target of the invading German forces who took the town during the Siege of Calais.

She took her own life in 1940.

Apart from the extension of the sidings south of Elephant & Castle no work on the extension took place before the Second World War, but the powers were renewed by the government in 1947 under the Special Enactments ( Extension of Time ) Act, 1940.

Blois was occupied during World War II by the German army, which took the city on 18 June 1940.

On 14 October 1940 Balham tube station was involved in bombing raids which took place in London during World War II.