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Playwrights Herbert, Dorothy and Joseph Fields are seen with a large portrait of their father, vaudevillian Lew Fields in 1941. (AP Photo)

Motor traffic crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, Nov. 20, 1940, in San Francisco. (AP Photo)

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, the refugee ruler of Luxembourg, arrives from Lisbon at La Guardia Airport, New York, on Oct. 31, 1940, with th...

A World War II German Airman displays a life preserver in the event he falls into the sea, October 24, 1940. (AP Photo)

This is the spacious living room of the Merle Thorpe home at Bethesda, Md., which has been leased by the crown Princess Martha of Norway, for herself...

The Norwegian legation announced October 15, 1940 the leasing of the Merle Thorpe estate in Bethesda, MD., by crown princess Martha of Norway as a res...

The Norwegian legation announced October 15, 1940 the leasing of the Merle Thorpe estate in Bethesda, MD., by crown princess Martha of Norway as a res...

President Franklin Roosevelt presents 14-year-old Donn Fendler of Rye, N.Y., with a gold medal for valor Oct.15, 1940 at the White House in Washington...

The first trainload of German children are evacuated from Berlin, Oct. 8, 1940, as parents wave goodbyes and children ages 3 to 10 wave swastikas. Th...

A wrecked tram, debris and tram tracks lay in Stockwell Road, Brixton, London, after two bombs, dropped by German aircraft, fell either side of the tr...

Actor Spencer Tracy, left, with Al Johson at party Jolson hosted at the Stork Club in New York, September 22, 1940. (AP Photo)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill temporarily replaces his

Elane Summers,

Belgium troops, who fought gallantly against the invading German army, hand over their rifles and equipment to their captors, in Belgium, May 26, 1940...

The Mayor of Brussels hands over the city to a Nazi officer after they had been invaded and captured by the invading army, May 20, 1940. (AP Photo)

Firemen fight a fire caused by a German incendiary bomb, dropped on an old building in Brussels, Belgium, May 14, 1940, (AP Photo)

Thick columns of black smoke rise from a fire caused by a German incendiary bomb, dropped on an old building in Brussels, Belgium, May 14, 1940, (AP P...

French frontier guards watch small groups of Belgian refugees, homeless because of the Nazi air raids, cross over into France, May 13, 1940, carrying...

Prof. Willy Messerschmitt, left, German engineer and aircraft designer of the famous German fighter plane Me 109, honors an engineer of his company wi...

The Monroe Room at the White House, April 25,1940. (AP Photo)

Oval shaped study of President Frankiln D. Roosevelt. Portrait Naval Hero Joh Paul Jones on wall right White House April 25, 1940. (AP Photo)

Southeast corner of the White House, East room , Ball room, largest unit in the building April 25, 1940. On the left wall a ful- lenght painting of th...

White House interior , southwest end of the blue room, door on left leading to Green Room.The Lafayette clock stands on fireplace mantel on left. ai...

Jimmy Conzelman, coach of the Chicago football Cardinals, at the annual meeting of the National Professionla football league in New York, April 12, 19...

Jimmy Conzelman, left, former head football coach at Washington University, St. Louis, MO., signed at Chicago April 10, 1940 as coach of the Chicago C...

Attorney General Frank Murphy is shown receiving congratulations in Washington from members of the committee after receiving unanimous recommendation...

Opening of Essex and Delancey markets which is taking place of pushcarts in New York City. Mayor Fiorello LA Guardia speaks at the ceremonies on Jan....

Opening of Essex and Delancey markets which is taking place of pushcarts in New York City. Mayor Fiorello LA Guardia shown in center on Jan. 9, 1940....

Nan Britton in a 1939 photo.(AP Photo)

Time Square is shown in this 1940 photo. (AP Photo)

Actor Charlie Chaplin lampoons Hitler in his first talking film

Actor Charlie Chaplin is seen in the film

Actor Charlie Chaplin is seen in the film

The great dictator, Charlie Chaplin, left, gives a Fraulein the eye, in a scene of the classic satire on Nazi Germany

Charlie Chaplin, in a scene of

Charlie Chaplin and Reginald Gardiner, in a tense moment in a scene of

Charlie Chaplin, in a scene of

Charlie Chaplin, as the barber, is arrested by German Storm Troopers in a scene of the classic satire on Nazi Germany

The great dictator, Charlie Chaplin, right, and GReginald Gardiner reeceive a

Confrontation between The Great dictator, Charlie Chaplin, left and Jack Oakie, dictator of bacteria, right, in a scene of the classic satire on Nazi...

The great dictator, Charlie Chaplin, strikes a fimiliar pose in a scene of the classic satire on Nazi Germany

A closeup of the Nobel Peace Prize Scroll which was won by Jane Addams in 1931. Phographed May 9, 1940. (AP Photo)

Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is seen during annual promotion ceremonies in Italy, Nov. 24, 1939. (AP Photo)

A socks sales peddler shown in New York on the famous Orchard Street Nov. 21, 1939. (AP Photo/Lindsay)

Chicago Cardinals team shown posing Nov. 8, 1939 in New York. Left to right, Cardinal linemen are: Virgil Deskin, Al Babartsky, Ross Carter, Ki Aldric...

One of the games played at every Halloween party is eating, or rather, trying to eat apple suspended on a string with your hand behind you. They were...

Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. shown under construction Aug. 24, 1939. Tidal Basin is shown in the background. (AP Photo)

General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, England's great opponent in Africa during World War I, wears a hat of the former colonial troups, during a conversati...

Actor Laurence Olivier enjoys a refreshment, Aug. 1939. (AP Photo)

The French Foriegn Legion swinging out of the Gare De Lyon on its arrival in Paris from Marseilles the morning of July 14, 1939. (AP Photo)