Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

He briefly held the record for winning the most Best Director Oscars when he won for the third time in 1938, until this record was matched by John Ford in 1941, and then later surpassed by Ford in 1952.

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.

The film won a number of prestigious film awards but fell from grace, particularly in the United States when, in November 1938, the world learned of the pogrom against the Jews.

From 1918 to 1938, Romania was a liberal constitutional monarchy, but one facing the rise of the nationalist, anti-semitic parties, particularly Iron Guard, which won about 15 % of the votes in the general elections of 1937.

While teaching he also played amateur football for local teams and was soon signed up to Manchester United as a professional, playing his first game in 1936 and being part of the team that won promotion to the First Division in 1938.

His career flourished with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town.

During this period Feijenoord won three consecutive division titles from 1936 to 1938, with their third and fourth national championships coming in 1936 and 1938.

* Thornton Wilder won in 1938 and 1943.

Graduating in 1938, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford and, after having deferred it for a year to play football, he went on to attend Hertford College, Oxford.

In 1938 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Our Town, and he won the prize again in 1942 for his play The Skin of Our Teeth.

The play won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize.

* Our Town ( 1938 ) — won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

In 1938, he first won the Greater Greensboro Open.

He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average four times: 1938, 1949, 1950, and 1955.

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

The tournament was won by champions Brazil, who claimed their second World Cup title by defeating Czechoslovakia 3 – 1 in the final, becoming the second team, after Italy in 1938, to successfully defend the world title.

The film won the awards for Best Foreign Film at the 1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the 1938 National Board of Review Awards.

Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.

In 1937, Charlton finished runners up in the First Division, in 1938 finished fourth and 1939 finished third.

In 1938, Greenberg led the league in runs scored ( 144 ) and at-bats per home run ( 9. 6 ), tied for the AL lead in walks ( 119 ), was second in RBIs ( 146 ), slugging percentage (. 683 ), and total bases ( 380 ), and third in OBP (. 438 ) and set a still-standing major league record of 39 homers in his home park, the newly reconfigured Briggs Stadium.

His third wife was Erica Sherover ( 1938 – 1988 ), a former graduate student and forty years his junior, whom he married in 1976.

On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered into a disastrous third marriage, with actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober, but paranoid when drunk.

The team ranks third among all NFL franchises with eight NFL titles: four in the pre – Super Bowl era ( 1927, 1934, 1938, 1956 ) and four since the advent of the Super Bowl ( Super Bowls XXI ( 1986 ), XXV ( 1990 ), XLII ( 2007 ), and XLVI ( 2011 )).

They added their third NFL championship in 1938 with a 23 – 17 win over the Green Bay Packers.

Williams led the league with 135 runs scored and 37 home runs, and he finished third with 335 total bases, the most home runs, runs scored, and total bases by a Red Sox player since Jimmie Foxx's in 1938 .< ref ><< http :// www. baseball-reference. com / teams / BOS / leaders_bat_50. shtml >></ ref > Williams placed second in MVP voting, with Joe DiMaggio winning with 291 votes to 254 votes on the strength of his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak and large number of RBIs.

" The families in that third of the population of Britain who in 1938 were chronically undernourished had their first adequate diet in 1940 and 1941 ... which the incidence of deficiency diseases, and notably infant mortality, dropped dramatically.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | The Lord Tweedsmuir gives the Speech from the throne | Throne Speech at the opening of the third session of the 18th Canadian Parliament | 18th Canadian parliament, 27 January 1938

In the spring of 1938, just after the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany, eighty-four year-old Prince Franz I abdicated, naming his thirty-one year-old third cousin, Prince Franz Joseph II, as his successor.

Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur ( 1868 – 1938 ), a laundry laborer of English, French Huguenot and Jersey ancestry, and Anna Bell Johnson ( 1884 – 1958 ), who was of Swedish and Irish descent.

The third and current Oregon State Capitol was completed on the same site in 1938.

The third show trial, in March 1938, known as The Trial of the Twenty-One, is the most famous of the Soviet Union show trials because of persons involved and the scope of charges, which tied together all loose threads from earlier show trials.

The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the third staging of the World Cup, and was held in France from 4 June to 19 June.

As late as 1938, over a third of all movies produced in Japan were shot without dialogue.

Annually since 1938, a local Methodist church has held another community event, the Luray Methodist Men's Fish Fry, on the third Friday evening of each March.

On January 1, 1938 Jeannette became a third class city with Attorney John M. OConnell as the first mayor.

The fourth and present courthouse was constructed in 1938 and 1939, after the third courthouse, which was built in 1887, was declared unsafe.

The third and final trial, in March 1938, known as The Trial of the Twenty-One, is the most famous of the Soviet show trials, because of persons involved and the scope of charges which tied together all loose threads from earlier trials.

NHK ’ s second radio network began in 1931, and the third radio network ( FM ) began in 1938.

* Samuel Heilner ( 1856 – 1938 ), former Director of New York and New England Railroad Company.

Gaitskell moved to University College London in the early 1930s at the invitation of Noel Hall, and became head of the Department of Political Economy when Hall was appointed Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in 1938.

On March 25, 1938 Majorana wrote a note to Antonio Carrelli, Director of the Naples Physics Institute, asking to be remembered to his colleagues and saying that he had made an unavoidable decision and apologising for the inconvenience that his disappearance would cause.

Fritz Reiner ( 1938 – 48 ) led the orchestra as Music Director for a decade, imposing his precise technical demands while also triggering substantial turnover in personnel exacerbated by the World War II military draft.

Ness was also Safety Director at the time of several grisly murders that occurred in the Cleveland area from 1935 to 1938.

In 1938 be became Vice-President and Director of Dillon, Read & Co., a firm that bore his father's name ( Clarence Dillon ).

In March 1938 he was offered the post of Director of Military Training for India-a major-general appointment-and he left Egypt in May.

Jay Montgomery Garner ( born April 15, 1938 ) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority ( CPA ).

He was a Fellow of the Institute of Fuel, London, from 1938 onwards ; Chairman, Conference of Research Associations, 1943 – 1945 ; Chairman, Solid Fuel Industry, British Standards Institution, 1937 – 1942 ; Chairman and Director, Institute for the comparative study of History, Philosophy, and the Sciences, Kingston upon Thames, 1946 – 1959.

Chen was a Central Committee Alternate in 1930-31 ( a much more prestigious position than today, due to their very small numbers ), Director of the CC Organization Department in 1938, and attended the 7th Comintern Congress in Moscow in 1935.

In 1938, Globke was appointed Ministerialrat ( Deputy Director ) due to his " extraordinary efforts in drafting the law for the Protection of the German Blood ".

* Professor Ted Milburn CBE born Morpeth 1938 President of the YMCA in Scotland, Emeritus Professor of Community Education and Director of the Centre for Youth Work Studies at he University of Strathclyde

* 1932 – 1938 Director of the Textilfachschule in Krefeld

* 1938 – 1954 Director at the Kunstgewerbeschule

Todd became the Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratories of the University of Manchester in 1938, where he began working on nucleosides, compounds that form the structural units of nucleic acids ( DNA and RNA ).

Edward Clement Bethel ( 1938 – 1987 ) was a Bahamian composer, pianist and choral director who became the first Director of Culture in the Bahamas.

On April 21, 1938, Schlag's design for the Jefferson nickel was selected by Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the United States Mint.

On 24 October 1938, Bonnet had Massigli sacked as the Quai d ' Orsay's Political Director and exiled him by having him serve as Ambassador to Turkey.

He joined the BBC as an administrator in 1926, was Assistant Director of Programmes from 1929 to 1932, then Empire Service Director, 1932 – 1935, Controller of Programmes, 1935 – 1938, Deputy Director-General, 1938 – 1942, and in 1942 succeeded Frederick Ogilvie ( jointly with Robert Foot ) as Director-General.