The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

* December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73 – 0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

In July 1940 he went to Chicago to do research for a folk history of blacks to accompany photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam.

From 1938 to 1940, he recorded frequently in New York and Chicago for the Vocalion label.

Bukka White's " Fixin ' to Die ," recorded in Chicago in 1940, is driven by a syncopated washboard backup.

* The World of Sex, Chicago: Ben Abramson, Argus Book Shop, 1940.

Paramount had television interests of its own, having launched experimental stations in Los Angeles in 1939 and Chicago in 1940, and DuMont's association with Paramount ultimately proved to be a mistake.

* Most fumbles: 14, Washington Redskins ( 8 ) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers ( 6 ), November 14, 1937 ; Chicago Bears ( 7 ) vs. Cleveland Browns ( 7 ), November 24, 1940 ; St. Louis Cardinals ( 8 ) vs. New York Giants ( 6 ), September 17, 1961 ; Kansas City Chiefs vs. Houston Oilers, October 12, 1969.

He died of a heart attack in Chicago, in August 1940.

* Bill Hands ( born 1940 ), former professional baseball pitcher who was a 20-game winner for the Chicago Cubs.

The first popular account of Mickey Finn was given by Herbert Asbury in his 1940 book Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld.

* Herbert Asbury, Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940 ).

They were engaged at the Chicago Theatre, and married on January 26, 1940, at the Wee Kirk o ' the Heather church in Glendale, California.

Soundies were an early version of the music video: three-minute musical films, produced in New York City, Chicago, and Hollywood between 1940 and 1946, often including short dance sequences.

Petrillo became president of the Chicago Local 10 of the musician's union in 1922, and was president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958.

By 1967, the group included Gary " Chicken " Hirsh ( drums ) ( born March 9, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois ); David Cohen ( keyboards ) ( born August 4, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York ) and Bruce Barthol ( bass ) ( born November 11, 1947 in Berkeley, California ).

Serious organizing of the America First Committee took place in Chicago not long after the September 1940 establishment.

By comparison, the 75 points scored by the Reds and Gunners in 21 games over two seasons only exceed by two the 73 points scored by the Chicago Bears in the 1940 NFL Championship Game and by three the 72 points scored by the Washington Redskins on November 27, 1966, the record for points scored by a team in a Regular Season game.

With John Hodiak in the title role, the Li ' l Abner radio serial ran weekdays on NBC from Chicago, from November 20, 1939 to December 6, 1940.

The Redskins then met the Bears again in the 1940 NFL Championship Game on December 8, 1940.

In 1940, during his second season with the Bears, Luckman took over the offense and led the Bears to the title game against Sammy Baugh and the Washington Redskins.

From 1940 to 1946 the Bears displayed their dominance in the game, playing in five NFL championship games, winning four, and posted a 54 – 17 – 3 regular season record.

After he played in the College All-Star game in August 1940, George Halas asked him not to return to Los Angeles immediately because Halas wanted to sign him to a contract with the Chicago Bears.

* NFL: In the 1940 NFL championship game, the Bears beat the Redskins 73-0, the largest score ever in an NFL game.

" Marshall said this after the Redskins beat the Bears on a disputed call during the regular season in 1940.

It helped motivate the Bears to beat Washington in the 1940 NFL Championship Game 73 – 0, a score which remains the NFL record for a shutout.

* 1940 ( NFL )-Chicago Bears 73, Washington Redskins 0

In the late 1930s, Halas — with University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy — perfected the T-formation system to create a revolutionary and overwhelming style of play which drove the Bears to an astonishing 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

* Jacksonville Red Caps ( 1938 ; 1941 – 1942 ) / Cleveland Bears ( 1939 – 1940 )

The Redskins and Bears would meet three times in championship games between 1940 and 1943.

In the 1940 Championship game, the Bears recorded the most one-sided victory in NFL history, beating Washington 73 – 0.

The 1940 game was the 73 – 0 triumph by the Chicago Bears over the Redskins, the highest-scoring shutout game in the history of the NFL.

* 1940 The Three Little Bears

The greatest margin of victory at the professional level happened in the 1940 NFL Championship won by the Chicago Bears over the Washington Redskins 73-0.

In 1938 – 1939, the Bears became the eighth member of the newly formed International-American Hockey League ( renamed the American Hockey League in 1940 ) which was created on June 28, 1938, by the formal merger of the International and the Canadian-American ( Can-Am ) Hockey Leagues, after those two smaller circuits had played interlocking schedules with each other over the previous two seasons.

Turner, coming out of Hardin-Simmons University, was the Bears first round draft pick in the 1940 draft.

Hamp Pool, a former captain of the 1940 and 1941 Chicago Bears NFL championship teams, then took over as head coach.

Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.

pitching Triple Crown ( baseball ) | Triple Crown in 1940, key member of the 1948 World Series Championship team, the Indians all time leader in wins and stikeouts, and an MLB Hall of Fame r.

In 1940, Greenberg was voted to the All-Star team for the 4th year in a row.

* American League All-Star team, 1937 – 1940.

The Germans attempted to land a weather team on the island on 16 November 1940.

* 1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach and NASCAR race team owner

In 1940 the team won the inaugural Football League War Cup.

The cipher was broken by a team from the US Army Signals Intelligence Service, then directed by William Friedman in 1940.

Walter debuted with the German national team in 1940 under Sepp Herberger, and scored a hat-trick against Romania.

Calvin Fowler ( born February 11, 1940 near Pittsburgh ) was the captain of the United States gold medal basketball team at the 1967 Pan American Games.

Mickey would return in The Whalers, first released on August 19, 1938, but this and also Tugboat Mickey, released on April 26, 1940 would be the last two shorts to feature all three characters as a team.

By 1940, he had moved up to the Canadiens senior team in the Quebec league.

In Winter 1940, the third issue of All-American's All-Star Comics debuted the Justice Society of America, the first superhero team in comics.

The team began recruiting young, promising players from Erandio for their team for the 1940 – 41 season.

Zarraonandía debuted with the Athletic Club on September 29, 1940, in a league match against Valencia CF The game concluded in a draw, with Zarraonandía scoring both goals for his team ( including his first goal in the league, scored 17 minutes into the game ).

A pugnacious rover, Barassi Snr was a reserve in the Demons ' 1940 premiership team before leaving to serve with the army in North Africa.

( Janss was selected to the 1940 team, but the games were cancelled due to the war ).

Lapel is home to the Class A 2005 State Champion Lapel Bulldogs Basketball team, and is also home to the 1940 Lapel Bulldogs Basketball team that reached the Final Four during the days of single-class high school basketball in Indiana.

The Negro league team " Homestead Grays ," originally from Homestead, Pennsylvania played many of its games in Washington from 1940 to 1950.