Colette's novel La Chatte (The Cat) is published.

Dazai Osamu's novel Gyofukuki is published.

Alberto Giacometti sculpts The Palace at Four A.M.

Andre Malraux's novel of Asian imperialism, La Condition humaine (Man's Fate), is published.

Henri Matisse completes his painting Danse II.

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra (Residence on Earth) is published.

George Orwell's autobiography Down and Out in Paris and London is published.

Diego Rivera's controversial mural Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Center is destroyed in New York because it includes a portrait of Lenin

Ignazio Silone's antifascist novel Fontamara is published.

Gertrude Stein's memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is published.

Franz Werfel's novel Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh) is published.

The Soviet Union completes two massive public works projects: the Dnieper River Dam (construction overseen by American engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper) and the...