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A dinner of welcome for the new German Ambassador to London, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, centre, was held at Grosvenor House, London, Dec. 15, 1936. From...

Jules Martin, left, and Sam Krantz are seen in undated photos from 1937. Both are alleged to be connected to bootlegger Dutch Schultz. (AP Photo)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress Rosalind Russell, currently appearing in

Richard M. Nixon, in the back row, right, is seen with his classmates at Duke University Law School, Durham, N.C., 1937. (AP Photo)

View of the British ambassador to China's residence at the legation's compound in Beijing in 1937 photo. (AP Photo)

View of the Italian legation's compound, with the residence of Italy's Ambassador to China, shown in 1937. (AP Photo)

View of British legation's compound, residence of the British ambassador to China, in Beijing 1937. (AP Photo)

Japanese military guards are stationed at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China in 1938. The flag of Japan flys over the building. (AP Photo)

Entrance to British ambassador's residence in Beijing, China in 1937 photo. (AP Photo)

A rubbish heap consisting of red soldiers killed in fighting on the Bilbao front covered with petrol saturated rags to help burn them on Sept. 24, 193...

England's King Edward VIII, left, talks to aide whilst being watched by President of Turkey Kemal Ataturk, second right, and Mrs Wallis Simpson, centr...

England's King Edward VIII, right, talks to President of Turkey Kemal Ataturk, left, on board the presidential yacht, in Istanbul Turkey, Sept. 12, 19...

Picture at Guadalupe Fort, near Irun, of the burial of hostages who were shot by the Reds before they left Guadalupe. The burial took place at the sce...

Irish Nobel Prize winner, poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, in Ireland, Sept. 6, 1938. (AP Photo)

The famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once the home of the celebrated empress Dowager Hsi Tai-H...

The famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once the home of the celebrated empress Dowager Hsi Tai-H...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

Visitors walk about the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once the home of the celebrated empre...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

The famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once the home of the celebrated empress Dowager Hsi Tai-H...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

View of the famous Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, one of the most beautiful places in all China. Once th home of the celebrated empress dowager Hs...

A rebel legionaire searches through the clothes of a Communist, who has been executed, after the fall of the fiercely contested town of Badajoz, Spain...

Stanley Ross, 26, of Detroit 3 ft. 2 inches tall, left, Tommy Lowe 36, 5-ft. 5-inches of New York and Henry Hite, 21, of Atlanta, 7 ft. , 9-inches, st...

Visiting the Passamaquoddy tidal power project, July 13, 1936 on his vacation visit to Maine, President Roosevelt inspects a working model of the proj...

FILE - Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin and head of the Banting Institute of Toronto, obligingly dons a ten-gallon hat to pose for the pho...

A dismantled two and quarter ton racing plane with which James H. Haizlip, St. Louis Pilot, hope to smash European flying records was loaded aboard th...

Here for a conference with Republican leaders, former President Hoover took time out for a bit of trout fishing and succeeded in landing 12, May 16,1...

Mae Capone, wife of gangster Al Capone, is seen on her way to visit Capone at the hospital on Alcatraz Island, March 1, 1936. Al Capone is currently...

Barbara Stanwyck , film actress, is shown in a Los Angeles court December 30, 1935 where she asked the court to grant her a divorce from her actor...

Servants dining room in the White House Kitchen. December 16, 1935 (AP Photo).

Actor Charlie Chaplin is seen in the movie

Actress Rosalind Russell is shown in this 1936 portrait. (AP Photo)

Actors Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard are seen in the film

This is the statue of Spanish painter Diego Velasquez in front of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, seen in 1936. (AP Photo)

Actor Johnny Weissmuller is seen swimming in this 1936 photo. (AP Photo)

1936 portrait of Swedish revue star Zarah Leander. (AP Photo)

Edgar Douglas Adrian of the University of Cambridge and Nobel prize winner in physiology, is seen in 1936, is one of 66 scholars and scientists to be...

Ken Strong, star halfback of the New York Giants, punting at the Polo Grounds, October 9, 1935. (AP Photo)

Ken Strong, star halfback of the New York Giants, punting at the Polo Grounds in New York, October 9, 1935. (AP Photo)

Exterior view of the U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington. D.C., Oct 2, 1935. In the background is the Congressional library. (AP Photo)

Beer baron Arthur

Here is the 1935-36 board of Directors of Rotary International, July 9, 1935. Seated, left to right, P.A. Kruuse, Odense, Denmark; Charles L Wheeler,S...

Winter Palace of Peiping shown July 8, 1935. (AP Photo)

The Hall of Sacrifice, one of the largest Imperial buildings in Peiping of the days before the Chinese Republic. The princes of the blood and other hi...