Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.

England made 644, their highest innings total since 1938.

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

Dennis R. Hoagland and Daniel I. Arnon wrote a classic 1938 agricultural bulletin, The Water Culture Method for Growing Plants Without Soil, debunking the exaggerated claims made about hydroponics.

The first arrests of German agents were made in 1938, and continued throughout World War II.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

The discovery of oil in Kuwait, in 1938, revolutionized the sheikdom's economy and made it a valuable asset to Britain.

Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 ( based on agreements made earlier in the century ), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.

Despite the participation of these aircraft ( mainly from 1938 onward ), it was the venerable Junkers Ju 52 ( which soon became the backbone of the Transportgruppen ) that made the main contribution.

He made an unsuccessful bid for a California State Assembly seat in 1938.

Added to this was the fact that Menzies had not served in that war, and that as Attorney-General and Deputy Prime Minister, Menzies had made an official visit to Germany in 1938, and like his Opposition at the time, supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of Appeasement.

Tristan da Cunha was made a dependency of St Helena in 1938.

* Suez, a film made in 1938, starred Tyrone Power as de Lesseps and Loretta Young as a love interest.

After Hitler's takeover of the German government in 1933, political enemies of the Nazis were persecuted, and their institutions closed or destroyed ; the Gestapo began actions against Polish and Jewish students ( see: Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau ), Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists, arrests were even made for speaking Polish in public, in 1938 the Nazi-controlled police destroyed the Polish cultural centre.

Gustloff was made a Blutzeuge of the Nazi cause and his murder later became part of the propaganda serving as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.

An agreement dividing the territory was made in 1938, officially ending outstanding differences and bringing an official " peace " to the conflict.

A Presidential Commission ( made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court ) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938.

The castle was then bought back by the canton of Fribourg in 1938, made into a museum and opened to the public.

German programmes commenced on 29 March 1938 and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages.

" They covered history in the making, and sometimes made it themselves: on March 12, 1938, Hitler boldly annexed nearby Austria and Murrow and Boys quickly assembled coverage with Shirer in London, Edgar Ansel Mowrer in Paris, Pierre Huss in Berlin, Frank Gervasi in Rome and Trout in New York.

In 1938 it was made the intelligence organization for the State as well as for the Party, supporting the Gestapo and working with the General and Interior Administration.

In 1998, Wolstenholme made a special appearance in EA Sports ' videogame World Cup ' 98, as the sole commentator on the game's classic World Cup matches, recreations of historic World Cup finals that included sepia-toned renditions of the 1930 and 1938 editions.

Additional attempts were made in 1937 and 1938 using a catapult system, launching the plane to a height of 9 metres ( 30 ft ).

A very short black-and-white cartoon was made in 1938 as part of a Warner Bros. blooper reel.

Previous directives of INAO make conditional allowances according to the complex laws of 1927 and 1929, and plantings made prior to 1938.

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 ).

In 1938 Fritz London proposed BEC as a mechanism for superfluidity in < sup > 4 </ sup > He and superconductivity.

* 1938, Government in Republican China, London: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-88355-081-4

In 1938, the Wings and the Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL teams to play in Europe, playing in Paris and London.

J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1938.

Herbert von Dirksen, who was German Ambassador in London from 1938 – 1939, described his predecessor, Ribbentrop, as " an unwholesome, half-comical figure ".

G. Bles, London, 1938 ) and in Sir Arthur Grimble's " A Pattern of Islands " ( Pub.

He had a very successful exhibition of paintings at the Calmann Gallery in London in 1938 and his first book, the self-illustrated children's pirate romance Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor ( based on a story he had written around 1936 ) was first published in 1939 by Country Life.

The color TV pioneer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first RGB color transmission in 1928, and also the world's first color broadcast in 1938, in London.

In 1938, Courtenay-Latimer rediscovered the first live specimen, L. chalumnae, which was caught off of the coast of East London, South Africa.

Frank Short continued in office until 1938 when he had to devote more time to administrative work for the London Missionary Society.

Following the Anschluss of March 1938, Jones flew into Vienna at considerable personal risk to play a crucial role in negotiating and organising the emigration of Freud and his circle to London.

London: Country Life, 1938 )

* Robert Neumann, Zaharoff the Armaments King ( 1935, revised 1938 ) London: George Allen & Unwin

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

New York / London: G. Schirmer, 1938.

New York / London: G. Schirmer, 1938.

* Newman, Bernard, Danger Spots of Europe, London, 1938.

As well as being the first scientific zoo, ZSL London Zoo also opened the first Reptile house ( 1849 ), first public Aquarium ( 1853 ), first insect house ( 1881 ) and the first children's zoo ( 1938 ).

Dingle became a professor of Natural Philosophy at Imperial College in 1938, and was a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London from 1946 until his retirement in 1955.

London: William Heinemann, 1938.

The International Baseball Federation ( IBF ) was founded in 1938, after the inaugural Baseball World Cup held in London.

Algernon Stitch lived in a " superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor " in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh ( 1938 ).