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.

Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with his graduation from Pitt in 1933, he remained active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as its director from 1934 to 1938, while at the same time enrolling in the University of Pittsburgh Law School.

The method is named after its inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1850 – 1938 ), who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin.

During Kristallnacht, the Jewish synagogue and homes were destroyed, and in 1938 the local Jewish cemetery was vandalised, while a cemetery shrine was turned to stable by German soldiers.

The 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades ; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son ( invented for that purpose ) rather than compete with the image of this one.

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.

The total Axis population in 1938 was 258. 9 million, while the total Allied population ( excluding the Soviet Union and the United States, who later joined the Allies ) was 689. 7 million.

Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote concertos for piano and for two pianos while Britten's concerto for piano ( 1938 ) is a fine work from his early period.

In 1938, after recovering the cross and donating it to Marcus Brody's museum, Indiana is introduced to Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indiana's estranged father has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide.

The NKVD established numerous secret prisons around Madrid, which were used to detain, torture, and kill hundreds of the NKVD's enemies, at first focusing on Spanish Nationalists and Spanish Catholics, while from late 1938 increasingly anarchists and Trotskyists were the objects of persecution.

In July 1938, while the rest of Lockheed was busy tooling up to build Hudson reconnaissance bombers to fill a British contract, a small group of engineers was assigned to fabricate the first prototype of what would become the P-38 Lightning.

The FCC froze applications for new stations in 1948 while it sorted out the thousands of applicants and re-thought the technical and allocation standards set down between 1938 and 1946.

Shep Fields and his orchestra appeared in The Big Broadcast of 1938 for Paramount Pictures while accompanying the actor Bob Hope in the 1930s.

In 1937, she met conductor Leopold Stokowski, with whom she had a highly publicized friendship or romance while travelling throughout Europe in 1938.

The setting for Cold Mountain State Penitentiary is inspired by Louisiana State Penitentiary, although unlike in the book, Louisiana only instated the electric chair in 1938, while the book is set in 1932.

Under its terms, the Soviets agreed to purchase $ 13 million worth of automobiles and parts, while Ford agreed to give technical assistance until 1938 to construct an integrated automobile-manufacturing plant at Nizhny Novgorod.

On September 29, 1938, around sixty of Disney's artists gathered for a two-and-a-half hour piano concert while he provided a running commentary about the new musical feature.

On the other hand, independent leader Ferhat Abbas founded the Algerian Popular Union ( Union populaire algérienne ) in 1938, while writing in 1943 the Algerian People's Manifest ( Manifeste du peuple algérien ).

From November 1938 to June 1940 Grynszpan was imprisoned in the Fresnes Prison in Paris while legal arguments continued over the conduct of his trial.

Ernest Hemingway used it as the title of his only play, which he wrote in Madrid while the city was being bombarded and published in 1938 in his book The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.

* Ralph Francis Baker ( 1938 – 1998 ), Madison County Sheriff from 1973 until 1998 when his automobile was swept into the White River while crossing a low water bridge, resulting in his drowning death on January 5, 1998.

The smallest class was 1938 with only three graduates, while the largest was the Class of 1937 with thirteen diploma recipients.

Former Nebraska Governor, Ashton Shallenberger, collapsed and then died a few moments later while giving a speech in Franklin on February 22, 1938.

* James Agee ( 1909 – 55 ), author, editor, poet ; lived in Frenchtown with second wife Alma from 1938 – 1939 ; wrote Let Us Now Praise Famous Men while in Frenchtown.

In 1938, Helpmann met a young Oxford undergraduate while fulfilling an invitation to dance at the university.

When Seth Low folded in 1938, its remaining students were absorbed into Columbia's undergraduate population as students in the University Extension program ; as such, they were only eligible to earn a Bachelor of Science degree rather than a Bachelor of Arts.

As an undergraduate, he received the City College of New York Class of 1938 Athletic Service Award.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Wabash College in 1938, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and later attended Yale and Oxford Universities.

He did his undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia and was awarded his doctorate in 1938 from the University of Chicago.

Moore published a literary review, Seven ( 1938 – 1940 ), while still an undergraduate ( Seven, Magazine of People's Writing, with a complex later history: he edited it with John Goodland ; it later appeared edited by Gordon Cruikshank, and then Sydney D. Tremayne, after Randall Swingler bought it in 1941 from Philip O ' Connor ).

He completed his undergraduate studies in Science ( 1938 ) and Medicine ( 1942 ) at the University of Adelaide.

During his undergraduate work he became especially interested in cartography, and received some practice drawing maps for faculty textbooks while earning a master's degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1938, and he earned his Ph. D. degree from the Ohio State University in 1947.

Price graduated from San Diego High School in 1931, attended San Diego State University in 1932 and earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy and a law degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1936 and 1938 respectively, by which time he had married his girlfriend Helen Moskowitz, the couple eloping to Las Vegas.

He emigrated to the United States in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution of Jews, graduated in 1943 from Stuyvesant High School, one of New York City's mathematics and science magnet schools, and obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1945.

After initially attending Furman University, Bisher graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1938, and was a manager for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team while he was an undergraduate.

Jucker also attended Cincinnati as an undergraduate student and played on the school's basketball teams during the 1938, 1939, and 1940 seasons.

Born in Lorane, Oregon, Humphreys earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon in 1935, a master's from Indiana University in 1936, where he first learned about factor analysis, then received his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, studying under Ernest Hilgard.

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

On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

In 1938 with Trager's assistance he elaborated a report on the progress of linguistic research at the department of anthropology at Yale.

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 ).

More excavated material from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935 – 1938, and from Woolley at Alalakh in the years just before and after the Second World War.

The collection of Palestinian material was strengthened with the acquisition in 1980 of around 17, 000 objects found at Lachish by the Wellcome-Marston expedition of 1932 – 1938.

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.

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.

In 1938 the highest attendance to date at the ground was recorded at over 75, 000 for a FA Cup match against Aston Villa.

Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938 ) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

An African-American child at a segregated drinking fountain on a courthouse lawn, North Carolina, 1938.

A new version of the film was published in 1938, including a longer sequence to reflect Stalin's " achievements " at the end of the film and leaving out footage with " enemies " of that time, including figures like Nikolai Yezhov, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgi Dimitrov and others.

On February 22, 2010, a copy of Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) sold at auction from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer for $ 1 million, besting the $ 317, 000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year.

Following an illness, he died at Freiburg in 1938.

Edmund Husserl died at Freiburg on April 27, 1938, having just turned 79.

The first practical electron microscope was constructed in 1938, at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus ; and Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) in 1939.

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 ".