In 1938, the U. S. Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins 304 U. S. 64, 78 ( 1938 ), overruled earlier precedent, and held " There is no federal general common law ," thus confining the federal courts to act only as interpreters of law originating elsewhere.

Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, ( the State Secretary 1938 – 1943 ) opposed the general trend in German foreign policy towards attacking Czechoslovakia: he feared that it might cause a general war that Germany would lose.

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.

In 1938, general elections were held and Terra's brother-in-law, General Alfredo Baldomir, was elected president.

According to the Weimar Republic 1928 Law on Firearms & Ammunition, firearms acquisition or carrying permits were “ only to be granted to persons of undoubted reliability, and — in the case of a firearms carry permit — only if a demonstration of need is set forth .” The Nazis replaced this law with the Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, which was very similar in structure and wording, but relaxed gun control requirements for the general population.

These new early twentieth century physical therapies included malarial therapy for general paresis of the insane ( 1917 ), barbiturate-induced deep sleep therapy ( 1920 ), insulin shock therapy ( 1933 ), cardiazol shock therapy ( 1934 ), and electroconvulsive therapy ( 1938 ).

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.

* The general dentist Felix Conkling Crawford ( 1938 – 2007 ) practiced in Plainview and was a leading figure in both the Texas Dental Association and the American Dental Association.

* Hartmut Bagger ( born 1938 ), general

On January 22, 1936, became commanding general of the Philippine Department until 1938.

* Northern Ireland general election, 1938

Promoted to full general in November 1937, he joined the Army General Staff in July 1938.

Upon his return to Japan, he was assigned to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and eventually rose to the rank of major general, having successively served as commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade ( 1930 – 1934 ), the IJA 4th Division ( 1934 – 1937 ), and after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ( 1937 – 1938 ), and the IJA 2nd Army stationed in China from 1938 – 1939.

* 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.

In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding ( GOC ) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan and was promoted to lieutenant general in January 1938.

On 24 June 1938, Pressburger married Ági Donáth, the daughter of Antal Donáth, a general merchant, but they divorced in 1941.

Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps ( 1938 – 1941 ), Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Forces during World War II, the only Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only person to hold a five-star rank in two different U. S. military services.

Jay Montgomery Garner ( born April 15, 1938 ) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority ( CPA ).

In 1938 he introduced the term " theocracy " to describe the religion's system of government, with Consolation explaining: " The Theocracy is at present administered by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, of which Judge Rutherford is the president and general manager.

* Count Belisarius ( 1938 ) by Robert Graves follows the career of the general Belisarius and recounts the build-up of tension and the riots in some detail.

He was the author of the first general guide to recorded classical music, Music on Records ( 1938 ), later expanded as The Listener's Musical Companion ( 1956 ), which Haggin regularly updated in new editions until 1978.

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.

** In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first multiparty election since 1938.

A Presidential Commission ( made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court ) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938.

After his election, Daley quickly moved back to the Democratic side of the aisle in 1938, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.

Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion, coupled with the Democratic landslide in the 1964 election that brought in many new liberals to Congress, making the House of Representatives in 1965 the most liberal House since 1938.

Joan Elizabeth Kirner AC ( born 20 June 1938 ), Australian politician, was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, the first woman to hold the position, which she held for two years prior to a landslide election defeat.

On May 10, 1938, Monahans won a contested election to move the county seat from Barstow to Monahans.

With the exception of the 1946 election the social democrats won a majority of the seats from 1938 until 1966.

On May 20, 1938, an election was held which was the climax to incorporating the town.

Tagea Brandt Rejselegat ( 1938 and 1967 ), the election as a Fellow of the Royal Society ( 1969 ), the William Bowie Medal ( 1971, as the first woman ), and the Medal of the Seismological Society of America ( 1977 ).

Heinlein had a cynical view of politics from his experiences on the Upton Sinclair 1934 campaign for Governor of California and his own at the receiving end of dirty tricks during Heinlein's failed 1938 election campaign for the California State Assembly.

They appeared alone on the ballot in the 1938 election.

In the 1938 election, the third Māori electorate of Northern Maori was captured by Paraire Karaka Paikea, and the last ( Eastern Maori ) was won by Tiaki Omana in the 1943 election.

Gair worked at consolidating his hold on the marginal electorate, at which he was largely successful except in the 1938 election, when a newly-formed Protestant Labor Party targeted his seat.

The election was held on 5 October 1938, and coincided with the Oxford by-election campaign, in which Bowra lent his support to the anti-Appeasement candidate, Sandy Lindsay.

The Irish presidential election of 1938 was the first Irish presidential election, held to fill the new office of President of Ireland.

But in the 1938 election, Holyoake lost his seat to a rising star of the governing Labour Party, Gerry Skinner.

In 1973, Boggs ’ s wife since 1938, Lindy Boggs, was elected as a Democrat to the 93rd Congress, by special election, to the second district seat left vacant by his death.

After his mandate in the next three elections-in November 1932, March 1933 and November 1933-was confirmed, Schroeder took the occasion of the election of March 1936, the mandate for the constituency 22 ( Düsseldorf East ), which he retained until April 1938.

The 2nd Seanad sat for less than two months, and he was elected to the 10th Dáil for Dublin North – East in the 1938 election.