In 1938, Hofmann moved again to a more permanent home at 52 West 8th Street.

* 1938 – Jerry West, American basketball player

In 1938, Saks expanded to the West Coast, opening in Beverly Hills, California.

Although Wrigley Field has been the home of the Cubs since 1916, it has yet to see the Cubs win a World Series, even though it has hosted several ( 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945, the last time the Cubs appeared in a World Series ), the last World Series win by the Cubs ( 1908 ) happened while the Cubs called West Side Park home.

* 1938 West Virginia Open

The Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West was completed in 1938, and soon became a southern extension of US 1.

His most successful films included The Ghost Goes West ( 1935 ), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), for which he received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ).

In 1938, 14-year-old Leslie Phillips appeared with Graeme Muir in the West End play Dear Octopus where Muir was the juvenile lead.

The first independent Trust was formed in Norfolk in 1926 as the Norfolk Naturalists Trust, followed in 1938 by the Pembrokeshire Bird Protection Society which after several subsequent changes of name is now the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales and it was not until the 1940s and 1950s that more Naturalists ' Trusts were formed in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire.

The Star Theatre opened for business on November 9, 1938 with the western, Born to the West. The price of admission was 11 cents and a box of popcorn was a dime.

Grover's Mill in West Windsor was the site Orson Welles chose for the Martian invasion in his 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

" In the summers of 1938 and 1939 he rented a cottage on Old Cove Road, now called West Cove Road, on Nassau Point, and spent many hours alone in a little sailboat he called Tineff ( Yiddish for " worthless ").

File: CanonsburgArmory. jpg | Canonsburg Armory, built in 1938, at West College Street and North Central Avenue.

Elkton Elementary School was built in 1938 on West B Street to house Elkton High School, but its role changed when a new school was built.

* Out West with the Hardys ( 1938 )

* The Girl of the Golden West ( 1938 )

It was founded as an asylum and was previously called the Storthes Hall Mental Hospital ( 1929 – 1938 ), the West Riding Mental Hospital ( 1939 – 1948 ) and Storthes Hall Hospital ( 1949 – 1991 ).

Finally, in August 1938, he decided he wanted to attend Mass and went to Corpus Christi Church located near to the Columbia campus on West 121st Street in Morningside Heights.

After blues artists like Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson launched a nationwide boogie craze starting in 1938, country artists like Moon Mullican, the Delmore Brothers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Speedy West, Jimmy Bryant, and the Maddox Brothers and Rose began recording what was known as " Hillbilly Boogie ", which consisted of " hillbilly " vocals and instrumentation with a boogie bass line.

* One of the most popular objects of the surrealist movement was the Mae West Lips Sofa, which was completed by artist Salvador Dalí in 1938 for Edward James

Ebsen went on to appear in numerous films, both musicals and non-musicals, including the 1936 Born to Dance, the 1936 Captain January ( in which he danced with Shirley Temple ), the 1938 Broadway Melody of 1938 ( with Judy Garland as his dance partner ), and the 1938 The Girl of the Golden West.

* The Girl of the Golden West ( 1938 )

Alone, discouraged, and suffering with chronic pain from myelofibrosis, a rare bone marrow disease, she was found unconscious in bed in her West Hollywood apartment on 27 December 1938 after she had ingested ant paste.

There were thoughts of going to India to work on the Pioneer, a newspaper in Lucknow, but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated.

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.

** Paul Olaf Bodding, Norwegian missionary to India and creator of Santali Latin alphabet ( d. 1938 )

* November 9 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher, one of the profound founding fathers of the Muslims of India ( d. 1938 )

) Maugham himself visited Sri Ramana Ashram, where he had a direct interaction with Ramana Maharshi in Tamil Nadu, India in 1938.

* Sai Paranjpye ( born 1938 ), movie director and a screenwriter in India

Hussein: An entertainment, set in India, was published in 1938, when he was 23.

He thereafter appeared in a number of notable films including Raffles, The Masquerader, Clive of India, A Tale of Two Cities in 1935, Under Two Flags, The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and The Talk of the Town in 1941.

* Paul Olaf Bodding ( 1865 – 1938 ), missionary to India

His Highness Maharaja Bhupinder Singh ( 1900 – 1938 ) gave the Patiala state a prominent place on the political map of India and, in the field of international sports.

1938, November 17 – the Banner of Peace was spread out in Karachi ( India ).

An unrelated Indian film had been directed under the name of Mother India in 1938.

Brijmohan Mishra popularly known as Pandit Birju Maharaj ( born February 4, 1938 ) is currently the leading exponent of the Lucknow Kalka-Bindadin gharana of Kathak dance in India.

In February 1938 he was promoted to Colonel and selected to command a brigade in India.

* Times of India Guide to Basic English ( Bombay: The Times of India Press ), 1938 ; Odgen, C. K.

He succeeded his father as the 123rd General Governor of Portuguese India ( 1936 – 1938 ).

In 1938 Bahadur Yar Jung was elected President of the MIM which had a cultural and religious manifesto soon acquired political complexion and became aligned with the Muslim League in British India.

Emerald was attached to the East India Station from January 1937 to July 1938.

He built a house, in Southend Park, Ballygunge, Kolkata, and in 1937, at the All India Music Conference, Allahabad, he met a music student at Rabindranath Tagore ’ s Shantiniketan, Meera Dasgupta ( 1923 – 2007 ), the granddaughter of Justice Raibahadur Kamalnath Dasgupta from Dhaka ; soon she became his student and they married on 10 February 1938 in Calcutta, though according to some, having married a non-royal, created a furor within the royal family, and subsequently he severed his ties with the family, and forfeited his inheritance.

S. Ramachandran Pillai ( Malayalam: എസ ് ര ാ മചന ് ദ ് രൻ പ ി ള ് ള )( born February 7, 1938 ) is a communist politician from Kerala, India, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) and General Secretary of All India Kisan Sabha ( Peasants Union ).

India moved toward self-government in 1938.