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.

A live specimen was caught in 1938 off southern Africa ; other coelacanths have since been found in the vicinity of the Comoro Islands.

Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern-day flying disc in 1938 when he and future wife Lucile were offered US25 cents for a cake pan that they were tossing back and forth to each other on the beach in Santa Monica, California.

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

However, Schmidt left this composition unfinished, and in the summer and autumn of 1938, a few months before his death, set it aside to devote himself to two other commissioned works for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, for whom he had often composed: the Clarinet Quintet in A major and the solo Toccata in D minor.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.

From 1933 to 1938, hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrated to the United States, Palestine, Great Britain, and other countries.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

In the first, from 1938 – 39, he tried to persuade other states to align themselves with Germany for the coming war.

Bukharin was tried in the Trial of the Twenty One on 2 – 13 March 1938 during the Great Purges, along with ex-premier Alexei Rykov, Christian Rakovsky, Nikolai Krestinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, and 16 other defendants alleged to belong to the so-called " Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites ".

Likewise the draft encyclical Humani Generis Unitas (" On the Unity of the Human Race "), which was ready in September 1938 but, according to those responsible for an edition of the document and other sources, it was not forwarded to the Holy See by the Jesuit General Wlodimir Ledochowski.

In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, again provoking little response from other European powers.

Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas — have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other media.

In 1938 the Independent Film Journal named her and several other stars as " box office poison " based on their supposed lack of popular appeal.

Nikitchenko presided over some of the most notorious of Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purges of 1936 to 1938, where he among other things sentenced Kamenev and Zinoviev.

On the other hand, when Scouts were persecuted and forbidden during the German occupation between 1938 and 1945 and during Communism between 1948 and 1989 ( with short exception of renewal of Scout during 1968 and 1969 ), boy clubs posed excellent informal alternative of youth life based on ideas similar to those of Scouts.

However, she was by this time deeply involved in a lesbian relationship with the wealthy writer Bryher, and she and Aldington formally separated, both becoming romantically involved with other people, but they did not divorce until 1938.

These were accompanied by several other products: Flake ( 1920 ), Cream-filled eggs ( 1923 ), Crunchie ( 1929 ) ( Crunchie was originally launched under the Fry's name but later adopted by Cadbury's ) and Roses ( 1938 ).

In 1938, Remarque and his ex-wife Zambone remarried each other in Switzerland as a protection to prevent her being forced to return to Germany and then they immigrated to the United States in 1939 where they both became naturalized citizens in 1947.

It is remarkable that the demands of the Second World War did not delay new rolling stock until after the war – virtually every other tube project was either delayed or cancelled-but, having been ordered in 1938, construction would have been well advanced when war broke out.

Filming was finally completed on January 6, 1938 with the scenes outside of Mr. Peabody's house ( and other shooting locations included the Westlake Street set at 20th Century Fox studios ).

It was also a hit in such cities as Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, Cincinnati and Washington D. C. However it was a financial disappointment in the midwest and most other cities in the U. S. To the surprise of RKO, when it premiered in New York on March 3, 1938 at Radio City Music Hall it only made $ 70, 000 and was pulled after only 1 week to make way for Jezebel starring Bette Davis.

After he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Calgary-Eye-Opener had its offices he met Clara Balken who in 1938 became his second wife.

His cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.

At the same time, Ribbentrop's efforts to convert the Anti-Comintern Pact into an anti-British alliance met with considerable hostility from the Japanese over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39, but with the Italians Ribbentrop enjoyed some apparent success.

It is interesting to note that when in 1938 André Breton traveled with his wife the painter Jacqueline Lamba to Mexico to meet Trotsky ; staying as the guest of Diego Rivera's former wife Guadalupe Marin ; he met Frida Kahlo and saw her paintings for the first time.

In 1938, Dalí met Sigmund Freud thanks to Stefan Zweig.

Things improved in 1938 and he met and moved in with Cotton Club employee Beatrice " Evie " Ellis.

He married Audrey Elizabeth Moulton, whom he had met when they both worked as Sunday School teachers at the local Baptist church, in July 1938 and had three children – one son and two daughters.

In 1937, she met conductor Leopold Stokowski, with whom she had a highly publicized friendship or romance while travelling throughout Europe in 1938.

In December 1938, Maguire was one of a group of seven people, who had been elected to the Second Dáil in 1921, who met with the IRA Army Council under Seán Russell.

Leon Kieres, the President of IPN, also met in New York with Rabbi Jacob Baker ( formerly Yaakov Eliezer Piekarz ) who had emigrated in 1938 from Jedwabne to the United States.

The town's need for a hospital was met by Dr. V. D. Goodall and Dr. S. L. Witcher, who formed the Goodall-Withcher Hospital in 1938, which is still operating today along with the Clifton Clinic.

In 1938, Dietrich met and began a relationship with the writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor and military hero Jean Gabin.

In December 1938, a group of seven people, who had been elected to the Second Dáil in 1921, met with the IRA Army Council under Seán Russell.

Shortly after the anschluss of Austria to Germany, Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on 28 March 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš.

While at CBS, Herrmann met Orson Welles, and wrote or arranged scores for Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air and Campbell Playhouse series ( 1938 – 1940 ), which were radio adaptations of literature and film.

In 1938 he met his future wife María Vilanova, the daughter of a wealthy Salvadoran landowner.

In 1938, he met Aldous Huxley.

leftAfter two seasons of interlocking play, the governors of the two leagues ' seven active teams met in New York City on June 28, 1938, and agreed that it was time to formally consolidate.

It was in this job that he met his first wife Erna Hammer, a German Jewish refugee, in 1938.

On November 1, 1938, Seabiscuit met War Admiral and jockey Charles Kurtsinger in what was dubbed the " Match of the Century.

The Pianist is a memoir of the Polish composer of Jewish origin Władysław Szpilman, written and elaborated by the Polish author Jerzy Waldorff, who met Szpilman in 1938 in Krynica and became a friend of his.

Léger subsequently enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris, from which he was awarded a doctorate in 1938, the same year that, on August 13, he married Gabrielle Carmel, whom he'd met at the University of Paris.

In 1938, when Harman met publisher / comic syndicator Slesinger, he headed toward happier trails.

Bridges met his wife, Dorothy Bridges ( née Simpson ) in his fraternity ; they married in 1938 in New York City.