The most commonly accepted opinion about the location is (), east of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq – suggested by Sir Aurel Stein in 1938 ( see his Limes Report, pp. 127 – 1 )

In 1938, the Report of the Departmental Committee on Scottish Administration recommended that certain departments be merged, and in 1939 the Scottish Education Department, Department of Health for Scotland, Department of Agriculture for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland and the Prisons Department for Scotland were abolished as separate departments, and instead became departments of the Secretary of State ( in practice, the Scottish Office ).

He presented the International Report at the founding convention of the Socialist Workers Party at the end of 1938, but dropped out of the party in 1939.

The British responded to the outbreaks of violence with the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry ( 1921 ), the Shaw Report ( 1930 ), the Peel Commission of 1936-1937, the Woodhead Commission ( 1938 ) and the White Paper of 1939.

* Harry A. Slattery, US Under Secretary of the Interior, 1938 – 39 ; the Slattery Report

The Archambault Report was an influential study of the penitentiary system in Canada, published in 1938.

At the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, he returned to Changsha and wrote for the Japanese War Report (《 抗日战报 》).

The report of the Commission was published in 1938 as the " Palestine Partition Commission Report ".

Between 1936 and 1938, a Queensland Government Royal Commission evaluated Kenny's work and published its Report of The Queensland Royal Commission on Modern Methods for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in 1938.

See also Report by M. Michael Hansson, Former President of the Governing Body of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, on the Activities of the Office from July 1 to December 31, 1938.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

have briefly summarized the debate, which took place from 1938 onwards and involved botanists on both sides of the Atlantic.

Vicious air bombings were targeted on Alicante during the three years of civil conflict, most notably the bombing by the Italian Aviazione Legionaria of the Mercado de Abastos in 25 May 1938 in which more than 300 civilians perished.

Whorf credited Naquayouma as the source of most of his information on the Hopi language, although in 1938 he took a short field trip to the village of Mishongnovi, on the Second Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.

He was a Lecturer in Anthropology from 1937 through 1938, replacing Sapir, who was gravely ill. Whorf gave graduate level lectures on " Problems of American Indian Linguistics ".

In 1938 with Trager's assistance he elaborated a report on the progress of linguistic research at the department of anthropology at Yale.

One sad-looking clump of coconut palms was jokingly called " King-Doyle Park " after two well-known citizens of Hawaii who visited on the Taney in 1938.

A green flash was added to the socks, which from 1938 became a green turnover ( although on blue socks thus eliminating red from the kit ), and that has remained a feature of the strip ever since.

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938.

The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly.

The first of these publications, The Dandy, commenced in 1937 and was followed by The Beano on 26 July 1938.

A Kriegsmarine submarine flotilla formed on 25 June 1938 was named " Wegener " in memory of U-27s commander

By 1938 the couple had drifted apart, as both focussed heavily on their work.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

The Seguro Obrero Massacre took place on September 5, 1938, in the midst of a heated three-way election campaign between the ultraconservative Gustavo Ross Santa María, the radical Popular Front's Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and the newly-formed Popular Alliance candidate, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.

Older films are also popular on the circuit, appreciated largely in an imposed camp fashion — a midnight movie tradition that goes back to the 1972 revival of the hectoring anti-drug movie Reefer Madness ( 1938 ).

This argument is based on the view that the surviving anti-Treaty members of the Second Dáil delegated their " authority " to the IRA Army Council in 1938.

That season, Feller set a record with 17 strikeouts in a single game and went on to lead the league in strikeouts from 1938 – 1941.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

He collaborated on such cartoons as Donald's Nephews ( 1938 ), Donald's Cousin Gus ( 1939 ), Mr. Duck Steps Out ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ) and The Plastics Inventor ( 1944 ).

After Japan went to war with China in 1937, passenger car production was restricted, so by 1938, Datsun's Yokohama plant concentrated on building trucks for the Imperial Japanese Army.

In 1938 the process of mechanism began with the conversion of a full cavalry brigade ( two Indian regiments and one British ) to armoured car and tank units.

The British built a series of destroyers ( the A Class to I Class ) which were about 1, 400 tons standard displacement, had four guns and eight torpedo tubes ; the American Benson class of 1938 similar in size, but carried five guns and ten torpedo tubes.

* 1938 – Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British Baroness and Methodist reverend

Hayek lived in Austria, Great Britain, the United States and Germany, and became a British subject in 1938.

Unwilling to return to Austria after the Anschluss brought it under the control of Nazi Germany in 1938, Hayek remained in Britain and became a British subject in 1938.

The Rock was a key part of the Allied supply lines to Malta and North Africa and base of the British Navy Force H, and prior to the war the racecourse on the isthmus was converted into an airbase and a concrete runway constructed ( 1938 ).

Over this period, except for the war years, during which he served with the United States Air Force, he developed British Guiana Airways Ltd. ( registered 27 May, 1938 ) and operating regular internal services since 1939.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

At the Munich Conference of September 1938, Hitler, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier agreed upon the cession of Sudeten territory to the German Reich by Czechoslovakia.

* 1938 – Ian Brady, British serial killer

* 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician

* 1859 – Samuel Alexander, Australian-born British philosopher ( d. 1938 )

* John A. Walker ( born 1938 ), British art critic and historian

Underlying the basis of the “ containment ” of Germany was the so-called “ X documents ” provided by Carl Friedrich Goerdeler over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39 which suggested that the German economy, under the strain of massive military spending was on the verge of collapse, and which led British policy-makers to the conclusion that if Hitler could be deterred from war and if his regime was “ contained ” long enough, then the German economy would collapse, and with it, presumably the Nazi regime.

* 1938 – David Irving, British historian

* 1938 – Kenny Lynch, British singer songwriter and actor

* 1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician

In 1938, British scientists obtained a patent on a newly formulated nonsteroidal estrogen, diethylstilbestrol ( DES ), that was cheaper and more powerful than the previously manufactured estrogens.

Argentina claimed the South Sandwich Islands in 1938, and challenged British sovereignty in the Islands on several occasions.

The last units of British heavy cavalry switched to using armoured vehicles as late as 1938.

In 1938, the Western Allies ( United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions ) had a 30 percent larger population and a 30 percent higher gross domestic product than the European Axis ( Germany and Italy ); if colonies are included, it then gives the Allies more than a 5: 1 advantage in population and nearly 2: 1 advantage in GDP.