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1940 and performance
More importantly, however, he went on to maintain the same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to top the ton since Richmond's Jack Titus in 1940.
For SEC registered hedge fund advisers to charge an incentive or performance fee, the investors in the funds must be " qualified clients " as defined in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Rule 205 – 3.
This regulation is set out under Section 205 ( b ) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which limits performance fees to so-called " fulcrum fees ".
* Allison-powered Mustang performance test reports ; 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944
Although Reagan was initially a small-time B-film actor, Warner Bros. was impressed by his performance in the final scene of Knute Rockne, All American, and agreed to pair him with Errol Flynn in their film Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ).
This overture, not normally used today, was given a rare broadcast performance by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra on 30 March 1940, but was never commercially issued.
He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.
Individual performances continued to receive praise ; in 1987, Bill Collins analyzed The Letter ( 1940 ), and described her performance as " a brilliant, subtle achievement ", and wrote, " Bette Davis makes Leslie Crosbie one of the most extraordinary females in movies.
She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ).
Scofield began his stage career in 1940 with a debut performance in Desire Under the Elms at the Westminster Theatre, and was soon being compared to Laurence Olivier.
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez ( born August 3, 1940 ), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performance as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing ( 1999 – 2006 ).
Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.
Failure to defeat Britain, and the weak performance of Germany's ally Fascist Italy beginning in 1940, obliged Germany to commit a ( initially small ) proportion of its war effort to the western and Mediterranean Theater of Operations and meant that if the USSR were to be invaded, Germany would again be fighting a two-front war.
Additional releases included a number of Beethoven symphonies recorded with the New York Philharmonic during the 1930s, a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 on February 20, 1936, at which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and one of the most celebrated underground Toscanini recordings of all, the legendary 1940 broadcast version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which has better soloists ( Zinka Milanov, Jussi Bjoerling, both in their prime ) and a more powerful style than the 1953 RCA studio recording, although the microphone placement was kinder to the soloists in 1953.
In 1940 a performance of The Last Edition – a ' living newspaper ' – was halted by the police and Miller and Littlewood were bound over for two years for ' breach of the peace '.
The dialogue is a homage to Howard Hawks ' His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), while Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as fast-talking reporter Amy Archer is reminiscent of Rosalind Russell and Katharine Hepburn, in both the physical and vocal mannerisms.
Among the recordings was a unique performance of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos ' Choros No. 10 with a Los Angeles choral group and the Janssen Symphony Orchestra ( 1940 – 1952 ) conducted by Werner Janssen, Symphony No. 3 by Russian composer Reinhold Moritzovich Glière, and César Franck's Symphony in D minor with Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Shortly after the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, starting with his first ( small ) billed performance in the wartime morale booster The Big Blockade, seen in March 1940.
* T-28E or T-28C — 1940 addition of appliqué armour in response to poor performance in Finland.
Vito Hannibal Acconci ( born January 24, 1940 ) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.
On 5 November 1940 these were reformed as the Long Range Bombardment Aviation of the High Command of the Red Army ( until February 1942 ) due to lack of combat performance during the conflict with Finland.
Following the Italian army's poor performance in the invasion of Greece in December 1940, he resigned from the General Staff.
The play is now performed in years ending with a zero, as well as in 1934 which was the 300th anniversary and 1984 which was the 350th anniversary ( though the 1940 performance was cancelled because of the intervention of the Second World War ).
* In 1940, World War II forced the cancellation of the year's scheduled performance, not to resume until 1950 ( but then, only after having to obtain permission from the American Occupation Authorities ).
He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor ( 1940 – 1996 ), who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

1940 and other
The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.
But the continuing charm of the other children -- Sally in 1940 and Jack in 1944 -- and all John's success at his work only made Edythe's dizziness and general uselessness more glaring.
Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".
Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).
In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).
His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).
Up to his death he refused to comment on the incident and in other opportunities he denied explicitly that he had been opportunistic by joining the NSDAP in 1933 ( albeit he conceded joining the Nazi Foreign Ministry to dodge his 1940 draft by the Wehrmacht ).
As one example, Luftflotte 5 was created in 1940 to direct operations in Norway and Denmark, and other Luftflotten were created as necessary.
On the other hand, MIT's extensive collaboration with the federal government on research projects has led to several MIT leaders serving as Presidential scientific advisers since 1940.
* 1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
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.
It also extended trade regulation of the 1940 German – Soviet Commercial Agreement until August 1, 1942, increased deliveries above the levels of year one of that agreement, settled trading rights in the Baltics and Bessarabia, calculated the compensation for German property interests in the Baltic States now occupied by the Soviets and other issues.
Between 1940 and 1945, the German Reichsbank sold 1. 3 billion francs worth of gold to Swiss Banks in exchange for Swiss francs and other foreign currency.
James and his first wife divorced in 1940 mainly as a result of James's many relationships with other women ; it was a pattern that continued throughout his life.
In 1940, they returned to Chongqing and established the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, which opened job opportunities for people through weaving, sewing and other crafts.
During the Soviet era gas was exported mainly to other Soviet republics, as Turkmenistan steadily increased delivery from about 9. 2 million m³ in 1940 to about 234 million m³ in 1960 and about 51 billion m³ in 1975.
The 1940 Denver Mint, 1936 Denver mint and the 1935 Denver Mint coins, as well as many others in the series, are considerably more valuable than other coins.
However, the whole of Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940 following a June ultimatum from the Soviets demanding, among other things, that unspecified numbers of Red Army soldiers be allowed to enter the country for the purpose of helping to form a more pro-Soviet government.
In Western Europe, British troops deployed to the Continent, but in a phase nicknamed the Phoney War by the British and " Sitzkrieg " ( sitting war ) by the Germans, neither side launched major operations against the other until April 1940.
Later, other movie technologies were adapted for use in animation, such as multiplane cameras with The Old Mill ( 1937 ), stereophonic sound in Fantasia ( 1940 ), widescreen processes with Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and even 3D.
The U. S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1984, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.
On 17 September 1940, San Marino declared war on Britain ; Britain and the other Allied nations did not reciprocate.
* Green, Matthew N. The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership ( Yale University Press ; 2010 ) 292 pages ; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives ; focuses on the period since 1940.
The blue screen and traveling matte method were developed in the 1930s at RKO Radio Pictures and other studios, and were used to create special effects for The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 film ).
It was included in every season until the winter of 1940 – 41, when the scenery and costumes ( along with those of three other operas ) were destroyed in enemy action.

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