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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 ).
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1938 and Report
A 1938 Report on the British Press ( from the think tank Political and Economic Planning ) expressed concerns that " a dangerous tendency has recently been manifesting itself by which entertainment ceases to be ancillary to news and either supersedes it or absorbs it ; many people welcome a newspaper that under the guise of presenting news, enables them to escape from the grimness of actual events and the effort of thought by opening the backdoor of triviality and sex appeal.
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 )
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.
1938 and Committee
* 1938 – During the Nanking Massacre Nanking Safety Zone International Committee renamed " Nanking International Rescue Committee " and safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
For his contributions to the game of Baseball, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1938.
* 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) in 1938, and soon became its chairman.
By February 5, 1938, the International Committee had forwarded to the Japanese embassy a total of 450 cases of murder, rape, and general disorder by Japanese soldiers that had been reported after the American, British and German diplomats had returned to their embassies.
On February 18, 1938, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee was forcibly renamed
On November 28, 1938, Jiang and Mao married in a small private ceremony following approval by the Party's Central Committee.
Former Township Committee member Frank Salvato, re-elected in 2008, served until his death in 2011 at the age of 98, having been first elected to the Committee in the 1938 and served as mayor in 1939, the township's youngest.
In 1938, the American Medical Association created a " Committee to Study Problems of Motor Vehicle Accidents ".
He was host to the Committee of 56 who gathered at his home on 9 December 1938, signing a " Declaration of Democratic Independence " which called for a boycott of all German Products.
* John Abt, chief of Litigation for the AAA from 1933 to 1935, assistant general counsel of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr .' s LaFollette Committee from 1936 to 1937 and special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938.
On December 15, 1938, President Manuel L. Quezon created the Special Committee of Arms of the Philippines.
Peng had been an alternate member of the Central Committee since 1934, a full member since 1938, and a member of the Politburo since 1945, but it was not until he became the leader of the PLA and moved permanently to Beijing, in November 1953, that Peng was able to attend regular political meetings and became active in domestic politics.
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.
Accordingly, from 1938 Gilbert Mackereth, the British Consul in Damascus, corresponded with Syrian and Transjordan authorities regarding border control and security to counteract arms smuggling and " terrorist " infiltration and produced a report for Tegart on the activities of the Palestine Defence Committee in Damascus.
The Dies Committee determined in 1938 that 280 salaried CIO organizers, were members of the CPUSA.
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was preceded by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic ( July 1938 – November 1990 ), which in its turn was a successor of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic ( February 1922 – July 1938 ).
The sub-committee came to the conclusion that Parliamentary opinion would not favour this suggestion ; however in December 1938 with a general election expected within a year or so, a motion from the Prime Minister was put down to nominate a Select Committee to examine the suggestion.
The House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ), founded in 1938 by Congressman Martin Dies ( D-TX ), supported an attack on Hollywood professionals that resulted in a blacklist of writers, actors, and directors.
That support haunted Yorty in 1938, when he was branded a communist by Folsom Prison inmate Arthur Kent during testimony before the California Un-American Activities Committee.
In 1938, she attended a conference in Ottawa to launch the Canadian National Committee on Refugees ( CNCR ).
The picture was released in December 1938, and became a great success with audiences: on 15 April 1939, Semen Dukelsky-the chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography-reported that it was already viewed by 23, 000, 000 people and was the most popular from the films made in recent time.
1938 and on
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.
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