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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
72: *[[Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: She is also [[Head of the Commonwealth]], [[Supreme Governor of the Church of England|S...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
27: ... ATS) where she was known as No 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, and was trained as a driver...
29: ...life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...dinburgh]] before their marriage. This marriage, although not arranged as such, was eminently suitable... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...e a member of the [[House of Lords]] and as a result of this appointment he was required to give up h...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...e House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...ident of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the United...
5: Mrs. Roosevelt was active in the formations of numerous institut...
9: ...ide marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes br... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
11: ...ame "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was t... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
18: ...timony of one invididual, a Detective Jacobs. [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] gave the lecture ''[[In Defense...
21: ...y in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and executed.
32: ...vastated by the massive destruction and death resulting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was f...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...ains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to ...
9: ...ntrol News''. She also contributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialis...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
24: ... She claimed that these social ills were the result of the male establishment's intentionally keeping...
31: ...the extend of exhausting her system, with the results not unlike the effects of masturbation and debau... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...emory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stali...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...he themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
11: ...r stage and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a public...
13: ... her. In turn, this allowed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [...
17: ...d racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tr...
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...but grew up in the [[Fells Point]] section of [[Baltimore]]. According to her autobiography, her house...
9: ...s stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father as a "[[Frank...
14: ...out who was the first to hear and publicise her, although it is generally agreed that Hammond was the ...
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...ng. As a teen, Krystyna's father now dead, she falteringly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. ...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
11: ...rt of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personnel ...
20: ...ng apart. It seems therefore that Kowerski's loyalty has only been called into question because of th... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
12: ... Some have speculated that her death was the result of a [[Vodoun|voodoo]] curse. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
7: ... circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designa...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
20: ...ry early television [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] (although the format had existed for decades in [[radi...
43: ...amous clowns, prominent among these were [[Red Skelton]] and [[Harpo Marx]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
8: ...l-about-town. She also became known for her wit, although as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another mino...
22: ...-- drunk, according to [[Lucille Ball]] -- is a cult favorite as is her role as the Black Widow on tel... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
9: ...Actress for a second time. She would continue to alternate between performances in [[American]] and [[...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...he was hired by [[Universal Studios]], but they felt she was not star material, and in [[1932]], they ...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
17: ...tion and that Davis, although in some ways difficult, was really a loving mother and grandmother. Dav...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...iscussions on these topics and more, and as a result the Hepburn children became well-versed in social...
17: ... met a young producer with a stock company in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] who cast her in several small ro...
24: <!-- Her acting in ''[[The Lake]]'' resulted in [[Dorothy Parker]]?s famous remark that Hepb...
38: ...isdaining makeup. She also had a famously difficult relationship with the press, turning down most in...
40: ...On the set she was saddled with the label "difficult to work with", an attitude that earned her the ni...
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