In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* 1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury

Stone ( 1847 – 1938 ), a leading American silversmith, was born, trained and worked in Sheffield, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, before travelling to the United States in 1884.

* Walter E. Boomer ( born 1938 ), retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive

The United States adopted a non-interventionist foreign policy from 1932 to 1938, but then President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved toward strong support of the Allies in their wars against Germany and Japan.

The Essentialist movement first began in the United States in the year 1938.

In 1938 Bagley and other educators met together where Bagley gave a speech detailing the main points of the essentialism movement and attacking the public education in the United States.

As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggressions of Nazi Germany, FDR gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and the United Kingdom, while remaining officially neutral.

Hayek lived in Austria, Great Britain, the United States and Germany, and became a British subject in 1938.

* 1936 – 1939 – After the United Kingdom recognised the Franco's regime in 1938, Gibraltar had two Spanish Consulates, a Republican one and a Nationalistic one.

Over this period, except for the war years, during which he served with the United States Air Force, he developed British Guiana Airways Ltd. ( registered 27 May, 1938 ) and operating regular internal services since 1939.

The Village hosted the first racially integrated night club in the United States, when the nightclub Café Society was opened in 1938 at 1 Sheridan Square by Barney Josephson.

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

Although " posterity has treated Maurice Evans less kindly ", throughout the 1930s and 1940s he was regarded by many as the leading interpreter of Shakespeare in the United States and in the 1938 / 9 season he presented Broadway's first uncut Hamlet, running four and a half hours.

Of the approximately 4, 800 Jews who had lived in Hannover 1938, fewer than 100 were still in the city when troops of the United States Army arrived on April 10, 1945 to occupy Hanover at the end of the war.

He relinquished command of his brigade in January 1938, and in February returned to the United Kingdom to take command of the 1st Infantry Division.

* 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.

Janet Wood Reno ( born July 21, 1938 ), served as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001.

* 1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General

* Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff: German Ambassador to the United States of America ( 1937 – 1938 ) and Spain ( 1943 – 1945 )

* Herbert von Dirksen: German Ambassador to the Soviet Union ( 1928 – 1933 ), Japan ( 1933 – 1938 ), and the United Kingdom ( 1938 – 1939 )

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

In the United States, Bloch enrolled at Columbia University, and received a Ph. D in biochemistry in 1938.

Minimum wage laws were first introduced nationally in the United States in 1938, Brazil in 1940 India in 1948, France in 1950, and in the United Kingdom in 1998.

In the United States, the minimum wage promulgated by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was intentionally set at a high, national level to render low-technology, low-wage factories in the South obsolete.

* 1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

* 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

* 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

First known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal government agents and their families, by the WPA, starting in 1935, opening in 1938.

Pare Lorentz's The Plow That Broke the Plains ( 1936 ) and The River ( 1938 ) and Willard Van Dyke's The City ( 1939 ) are notable New Deal productions, each presenting complex combinations of social and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints.

In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.

The one incident that resulted in the death of Gibraltarians occurred on 31 January 1938 when the insurgent submarine General Sanjurjo sank the SS Endymion, a small Gibraltar-registered freighter taking a cargo of coal to Cartagena, which was chartered by the Republican government.

Held in the care of the Dutch government, the Kröller-Müller Museum was opened in 1938 near the town of Otterlo in the Netherlands.

When he died of canine distemper, his older brother, Kenzan-go, was presented to her as an official gift from the Japanese government in July 1938.

* 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces.

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

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.

A request by his co-worker Helmut Schreyer — who had helped Zuse build the Z3 prototype in 1938 — for government funding for an electronic successor to the Z3 was denied as " strategically unimportant ".

Frustrated, Konoe's government announced in January 1938 that it would no longer deal with Chiang, but would await the development of a new regime.

In 1938, the Nazi government ( 1933 – 1945 ) changed thousands of toponyms ( especially names of cities and villages ) of Old Prussian and Polish origin to newly-created German names ; about 50 % of the existing names were changed in 1938 alone, despite resistance by the Prussian people, who continued to use their traditional place names.

* For Us, The Living ( 1938, published in 2003 ) by Robert A. Heinlein, a futuristic utopian novel explaining practical views on love, freedom, drive, government and economics.

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.

In their view, the legitimate government was the IRA Army Council, which had been vested with the authority of that Republic in 1938 ( prior to the Second World War ) by the last remaining anti-Treaty deputies of the Second Dáil.

He was convicted of espionage and imprisoned by the Czechoslovakian government in July 1938, but after the Munich Agreement, he was released as a political prisoner.

The Alberta government would pass the Métis Population Betterment Act in 1938.

It all came to nothing, as the British government had shelved the proposal altogether by the middle of 1938.

In 1938, the German government revoked his citizenship, so he applied for Norwegian citizenship.

Heath, who had himself applied to be the Conservative candidate for the by-election, accused the government in an October Union Debate of " turning all four cheeks " to Hitler, and was elected as President of the Oxford Union in November 1938, sponsored by Balliol, after winning the Presidential Debate that " This House has No Confidence in the National Government as presently constituted ".

After the establishment of the “ weixin zhengfu ” ( the collaborating government ) in 1938, order was gradually restored in Nanking and atrocities by Japanese troops lessened considerably.

In 1938, Breton accepted a cultural commission from the French government to travel to Mexico.

These associations succeeded in sending settlers to New Guinea and lobbied successfully for the establishment of a government agency to subsidise these initiatives ( in 1938 ).