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unusual facts about 1942–44 musicians' strike


The Song Spinners

The Song Spinners were an American vocal group which enjoyed a burst of popularity during the 1942–44 musicians' strike.


29th Reconnaissance Squadron

The 419th Flight Test Squadron, designated the 29th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) from February 1942 to April 1942.

Altamont, British Columbia

Named by John Fitzgerald Mahon ( - 1942) of Vancouver and London, who subdivided land here in 1913, after his brother-in-laws' courtesy title, Earl of Altamont, the eldest son of the Marquess of Sligo, and brother of his wife, Lady Alice Mahon.

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He married fourthly at Lugano-Castagnola, 13 December 1967, Liane Denise Shorto (b. Garça, São Paulo, 23 December 1942), a Brazilian banker's daughter, from whom he was divorced 29 November 1984.

Battle of Lunga Point

Battle for Henderson Field, a battle that took place October 23 – 26, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.

Berridale, New South Wales

On 28 March 1942, a USAAF P-40E fighter made an emergency landing at "Wheat Hill" station, after becoming lost in fog during a flight from Canberra.

Betsy Jochum

Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.

Betty Compson

In 1930, she made a version of The Spoilers in which she played the role later portrayed by similar-looking Marlene Dietrich in the 1942 remake, while Gary Cooper played the part subsequently acted in the later film by John Wayne, perhaps the only time that Cooper and Wayne played precisely the same role.

Bugle Call Rag

The song appears in several Hollywood films, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Orchestra Wives (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and The Aviator (2004).

Buttrose

Ita Buttrose (born 1942), Australian journalist and businesswoman

Charles Davies Sherborn

On Charles Davies Sherborn's own death in 1942, the Manor was inherited by his nephew Ronald Thorne Sherborn, father of the conservationist Derek Sherborn.

Charters and Caldicott

They proved popular with audiences and returned in the Gilliat-and-Launder films Night Train to Munich (1940, also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), and in the BBC radio serials Crook's Tour (1941, made into a film later that year) and Secret Mission 609 (1942).

Chū Kudō

In 1942, he held secret meetings with Fumimaro Konoe and others in the upper levels of the Japanese government who hoped to bring a quick end to the Second Sino-Japanese War and an armistice with Kuomintang.

Denton Hall, Wharfedale

Denton Hall has been used as a college for old people, and also was a location for two films: In the 1942 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Powell & Pressburger, it is the seat of the Wynne family, whose daughter Barbara marries the eponymous Colonel.

Desperate Journey

Reagan was fresh off his acclaimed effort in Kings Row (1942), and his professional star was at its brightest.

Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale

He participated and led Ankalkhop, Audumber, and Bhilwadi in Tasgaon morcha (March on Tasgaon Tashil) on 3 September 1942 and Islampur morcha on 8 September 1942 in Satyagraha.

Dušan Žanko

During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.

Everybody's Talkin'

It was sampled in 2002 by Paul Oakenfold in "Starry Eyed Surprise", in 2004 by The Go! Team in "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone" and in 2007 by Mika in his Live in Cartoon Motion DVD.

Fourth Battle of Savo Island

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a battle that took place November 12 – 15, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.

George Kilpatrick

After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College in 1942.

Henry Bellamann

Released in 1942, with some of the more controversial portions of the novel toned down to satisfy the Hays Code, Kings Row starred Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, and Robert Cummings.

Hinrichs

Gustav Hinrichs (1850–1942), German-born American composer and conductor

Hypnotherapy in childbirth

In 1942, Childbirth without Fear was published; it was a book written by English obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read and French obstetrician Michel Odent, that introduced the idea of using hypnotherapy for childbirth.

J. S. Woodsworth

He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in early 1942, and his ashes were scattered in the Strait of Georgia.

Japanese cruiser Isuzu

In August, 1942, the Isuzu was reassigned to the Indian Ocean theatre, patrolling between Singapore, Mergui, Burma, Sabang Harbor, Sumatra and Penang, Malaya; however, on 24 August 1942, Isuzu was reassigned back to Makassar.

Japanese food supply ship Irako

In January 1942, she started sailing between the Japanese homeland (Kure and Yokosuka) to the front, including Saipan, Truk, and Davao.

Japanese submarine I-26

In the evening of 20 June 1942, while patrolling two miles off the coast of British Columbia, I-26 surfaced and shelled the lighthouse and radio-direction-finding (RDF) installation at Estevan Point.

Jens Risom

In 1941, Risom teamed with entrepreneur Hans Knoll and in 1942, they launched the Hans Knoll Furniture Company with 15 of the 20 pieces in the inaugural "600" line designed by Risom.

John Troy

John Weir Troy (1868–1942), American Democratic politician, Governor of Alaska Territory, 1933–1939

Joseph Rutherford

Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869-1942), second president of Watch Tower Society corporation

Kim Yong-Sik

The expansion of Japanese offensives during the Pacific War in 1942 led to the cessation of sporting competitions in the country and Kim's spell at Pyeongyang FC came to an end.

Kopparapu

Kopparapu Sodara Kavulu consists of Kopparapu Venkata Subbaraya Kavi (1885 - 1932) and Kopparapu Venkataramana Kavi (1887 - 1942).

Mark Sandrich

However, while all these were hits, it is Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin, that is most remembered today, for it introduced the song "White Christmas" performed by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song for fifty-two years.

Maylands Airport

Between 6 April 1942 and 5 August 1943, No. 35 Squadron, flying Avro Ansons, was based at Maylands to transport supplies and passengers to Allied units throughout Western Australia, as well as supporting the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army.

Michael Ogio

Sir Michael Ogio, GCMG, CBE (born 7 July 1942) is the ninth and current Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.

Murphy drip

On 4 June 1942 Pharmacist's Mate Edwin Miller was stationed on Sand Island (part of the Midway Atoll) and was making ready for the expected Japanese attack.

Newton Mason

Newton Henry Mason (1918–1942), United States Navy ensign, posthumous recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross

No. 8 Squadron RAAF

The amalgamated squadron continued operations throughout the month, before No. 8 Squadron handed its remaining Hudsons to No. 1 Squadron in January 1942 and was evacuated to Palembang in Sumatra where it received replacement Hudsons.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Oklahoma World War II Army Airfields

Note: Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, originally Naval Air Station Clinton, was acquired by the U. S. Navy in 1942.

Rafflesia kerrii

The species is named after the Irish botanist A.F.G. Kerr (1877–1942), the first botanist to collect plants extensively in Thailand.

Richard Jury

The heaviest bombardment of London occurred during the Blitz, 1941-1942, but the Germans targeted London with V1s and V2s as late as March, 1945.

River Tay

A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.

Sir Frederick Eley, 1st Baronet

He was also chairman of John Waddington Ltd, Cope & Timmins, Crosse & Blackwell Ltd (1932–1946), the Waldorf Hotel Company, and the Bank of British West Africa (1942–1948).

Stancliffe

David Stancliffe (born 1942), Anglican bishop of Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Stumme

Georg Stumme (29 July 1886 – 24 October 1942), a German General of World War II

The Negro Digest

The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.

Theodor Dannecker

Owing to misuse of his position, partially due to his theft of German confiscated property, he was ordered back to Berlin in August 1942.

Thomas De Koninck

According to a well known rumor, he would have inspired Antoine de Saint-Exupery for the creation of The Little Prince when Saint-Exupery was living in the house of Charles De Koninck in Québec city, in 1942 (see La transcendance de l'homme : études en hommage à Thomas De Koninck, Jean-François Mattéi et Jean-Marc Narbonne (ed.)).

Vicente González

Vicente González Lizondo (1942-1996), Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union

William Henry Bragg

W.H. Bragg died in 1942 in England and was survived by his daughter Gwendolen (Mrs. Alban Caroe) and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg.


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