" Goddard eventually divorced Chaplin in Mexico in 1942, citing incompatibility and separation for more than a year.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score, adding a narration which he recorded himself, and tightening the editing which reduced the film's running time by several minutes.

The couple split amicably soon afterward, and Goddard allegedly obtained a divorce in Mexico in 1942, with Chaplin agreeing to a generous settlement.

In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.

He had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces `` were outmaneuvered, outfought and outgeneraled ''.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

It had a population of four American civilians, who were all evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

In 1942 she was named President-elect of The Herdwick Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the first time a woman had ever been elected to that office, but died before taking office.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

" Another Bengals team had existed in the city and played in three previous American Football Leagues from 1937 to 1942.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

They had a daughter in 1942 and another in 1947.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

Ecuador had no choice but to accept Peru's territorial claims and signed Peace treaty in 1942.

Following its defeat at the Battle of Gazala in June 1942, the British Eighth Army had retreated from the Gazala line to Mersa Matruh, roughly inside the Egyptian border.

Hitler's emphasis on maintaining high living standards postponed the full mobilization of the national economy until 1942, years after the great rivals Britain, Russia, and the U. S. had fully mobilized.

In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

On his orders, by spring 1942 the camp at Auschwitz had been greatly expanded, including the addition of gas chambers, where victims were killed using the pesticide Zyklon B.

In 1942, Jiao Juyin directed the play in a Confucian temple in Sichuan Province, to which the government had retreated from the advancing Japanese.

Holt also forged a close relationship with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, whom he had first met in Melbourne in 1942.

By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.

During 1942, Goebbels continued to press for the " final solution to the Jewish question " to be carried forward as quickly as possible now that Germany had occupied a huge swathe of Soviet territory into which all the Jews of German-controlled Europe could be deported.

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

Despite Ciano's efforts to persuade Ribbentrop to put off the attack on Poland until 1942, so as to allow the Italians time to get ready for war, Ribbentrop was adamant that Germany had no interest in a diplomatic solution of the Danzig question and only wanted a war to wipe Poland off the map.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

Sevilla also enjoyed a brief golden era, finishing as runners-up in 1940 and 1942 before winning their only title to date in 1946.

After brief service on the Eastern Front, including the siege of Leningrad, he returned to Germany in 1942 to work as a trainer and advisor at the Reichsluftfahrtministerium.

For a brief period in 1942, they were known as the Justice Battalion, as they became an extension of the armed forces of the United States of America during World War II.

His retirement was brief, however, and by 1942 he was back in the ring.

In 1942, the Japanese Imperial forces landed in Misamis Occidental, beginning their brief occupation of the province as part of World War II.

However, for a brief time, Drew became an all-male institution, during the 1930s until 1942.

Hess makes a brief appearance performing at one of her lunchtime concerts in the 1942 wartime documentary Listen to Britain ( directed by Humphrey Jennings and Stuart McAllister ).

After joining Jim and Marion Jordan ( as Fibber McGee and Molly ) and fellow radio favorite Edgar Bergen in Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ) and Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), Peary finally received top billing for a brief series of RKO films.

He served as Mayor of Lyon from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1942 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime.

Although she had brief stints in 1939 with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller ( who hired her in July of that year when his regular singer, Marion Hutton, was sick ), she spent most of her next few years with Venuti, until he dissolved his band in 1942.

After a brief period as No. 1435 ( Fighter ) Flight, at RAF Luqa, due to its size it was raised to No. 1435 Squadron on 2 August 1942 at RAF Luqa, Malta

The Supreme Court rejected Royall's argument in a brief announcement in July 1942, and upheld the right of the president to appoint a secret tribunal.

They were tried, convicted and executed in August 1942, days after the Supreme Court's brief announcement upholding Roosevelt's tribunals.

In early 1942, Baillie-Stewart made a brief return to radio under the alias of " Lancer ", making several broadcasts for both the Reichsrundfunk and Radio Luxembourg.

* Newell, Clayton R. Burma, 1942 ( 1999 ) brief official US Army history ; 24pp online edition

The Dolls were a close-knit family who always lived, ate, and worked together — with the exception of Daisy's brief marriage in 1942 to an average-sized man, Louis E. Runyan, which ended in divorce less than a year later.

A brief mention is made in The Hunter of Parker first having used a gun in Germany ( implying that he served in World War II ), which is then confirmed in The Outfit, where its stated that he had been in the Army from 1942 to 1944 and had been given a BCD for blackmarketeering.

Eichelberger's period in command of the 77th Infantry Division was brief, for on 18 June 1942 he became commander of I Corps, with Byers as his chief of staff.

It was, however, a brief stay for they returned to Willingdon in February 1942.

Northland is a brief ( approximately 20 minutes running time ) 1942 Canadian documentary film on the life of miners, most notable for its having been directed by the expatriate German crime writer, jazz critic, jazz musician, and sexologist Ernest Borneman.

During the brief German occupation the name of the square changed twice: in 1942 the square carried name of German Army, and in 1943-Leibstandard SS Square.

During the Second World War Shipton was appointed HM Consul at Kashgar in Central Asia from 1940 to 1942, then after a brief spell in England was assigned to work in Persia as a " Cereal Liaison Officer " for 20 months during 1943 – 44.

He began his brief career in the ministry in Pontiac, Michigan before serving in Flint, Michigan from 1936 to 1942.