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.

In 1938 he won his third Director Oscar in five years for You Can't Take It with You, which also won Best Picture.

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.

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.

* The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 novel The Yearling, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, was about a boy's relationship with a baby deer, later adapted to a children's film that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Wilder received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 for the work.

* 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Marya Zaturenska ( September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982 ) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.

* 1938 Pulitzer Prize

* Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, refers to Lake Winnipesaukee at the beginning of Act III.

These include The Black Rock ( 1928 ), Selected Poems ( 1938 ), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1939, and The Burning Mountain ( 1946 ).

Most likely the Chronicle's best-known and most widely-quoted writer was the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Herb Caen ( 1916 – 1997 ), a Sacramento native who joined the newspaper in 1938 to write a local-radio news column.

Charles Peter Wuorinen ( born June 9, 1938 ) is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City.

* Thornton Wilder wrote his play Our Town which won a Pulitzer in 1938.

In 1938 the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service after publishing a series of articles called " Self-Help in the Dust Bowl.

* Benjamin Franklin ( 1938 ), winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

* Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1938 ) Pulitzer Prize for Drama-adapted into 1940 film.

Diana Wynyard starred as Charlotte Brontë in Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers in 1932, and Raymond Massey starred in Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning Idiot's Delight in 1938.

Poster for the 1938 Works Progress Administration | WPA production of Alison's House, for which Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

" After successfully fighting the law, the Journal became the first non-American newspaper to be honoured by the Pulitzer Prize committee, receiving a special bronze plaque in 1938 for defending the freedom of the press.

The library's Special Collections include the papers of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1934 to 1938 ; David O. McKay, ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ; Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts from 1985 to 2006 ; and Wallace Stegner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.

* John Gould Fletcher, 1938 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Although Philolexian members during the Great Depression included such figures as future Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman and publisher Robert Giroux ( both Class of 1936 ) and noted Trappist monk and humanist Thomas Merton ( Class of 1938 ), the economic hardships of the period severely curtailed the group's activities.

He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.

In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his " demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons ".

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

File: Enrico Fermi 1943-49. jpg | Enrico Fermi ( 1901-1954 ): developed first nuclear reactor ( Chicago Pile-1 ), contributed to quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics, awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.

* 1938 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* February 15 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1938 )

* October 3 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1938 )

* September 17 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1938 )

The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passports.

Its most notable achievement was the Nansen passport, a passport for refugees, for which it was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize.

The laborious negotiations called in Buenos Aires by Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas yielded him Latin America's first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1936 and a formal peace treaty in July 1938.

Carl von Ossietzky ( 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938 ) was a German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

* Jack Temple Kirby ( 1938 – 2009 ), historian of the Southern United States, who was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.

Fermi, a Nobel Prize laureate nuclear physicist, immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1938.

He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943, and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.

Magee developed his poetry whilst at the school, and in 1938 won the school's Poetry Prize.

In 1938, Adolf Hitler bestowed upon Messerschmitt the German National Prize for Art and Science.