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Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson is seen in 1937. (AP Photo)

This ivy-covered house on a mountain slope in Virginia is the home of

Image shows Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Gordon Hewart, in London, Nov. 25, 1936. (AP Photo)

Dr. James W. Watts of the medical faculty of the George Washington University is seen, Nov. 20, 1936. He described to the Southern Medical Associatio...

Rexford G. Tugwell, Right, with secretary Henry Wallace as he tells reporters November 18, 1936 in Memphis, Tenn., of his resignation as resettlement...

Josef Stalin, second from right, upper stand, Russian commissar for foreign affairs, is shown as he reviewed Soviet army forces during the celebration...

Romanian fascists, wearing Nazi emblems are shown marching in Bucharest, Nov. 8, 1936. (AP Photo)

Flags adorn the fire escapes of the tenements on the Lower East Side in New York as crowds push against police lines to see President Roosevelt as he...

President Franklin Roosevelt, is shown speaking on the 50th anniversary of the erection of the State of Liberty in New York, on Oct. 28, 1936. He decl...

Actors William Powell and Myrna Loy wear oversized shoes to a theater party, Oct. 21, 1936. Man at right is unidentified. (AP Photo)

French Ambassador to London, Charles Corbin, leaves the Foreign Office, London, Sept. 9, 1936, after the International Non-Intervention Committee, con...

This group of Olympic Games officials and their wives returned to thier country September 4, 1936 aboard the liner Deutschland. Left to right are: Col...

Frnak W. Lewis of Cushing Okla., only American Wrestler to win a Gold Medal in the recent Olympic games, arrives on the president Roosevelt, August 28...

Polish film star Pola Negri filming her new film

Tony Canzoneri, the king of the lightweight division, steps out against his shadow in training at Marborough, N.Y., August 24, 1936. Canzoneri is s...

Czechoslovakian youths hold a bloodstained Czech flag while Soviet tanks rumble through a street downtown Prague, Aug 21, 1936. The blood stains are f...

Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture and a member of President Roosevelt's drought commission August 20, 1936 in Spring...

Boxer Jack Sharkey down in the third round of his fight with heavyweight Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium in New York, August 18, 1936. A few seconds l...

David O Selznick photographed on the Lurline August 13,1936 on his return from Honolulu, expressed belief that color would be stressed more and more i...

The stage and screen gathered at Mary Pickford's

Workers in a steel and machine casting factory at Kawaguchi, Japan, are seen, July 8, 1936. (AP Photo)

Trained to the minute and ready for action, Joe Louis expects a quick victory in his scheduled 15 round battle with Max Schmeling, former heavyweight...

Workmen set up a ring at Yankee Stadium in preparation of the boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling for the evening of June 17, 1936 in New...

Workmen with an intricate mechanism swung high above the rocky shores of San Francisco's Golden Gate on June 6,1936. The workmen are typing together...

The Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, better known as Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, has acquired the grounds and old house, which is to be pulled...

The Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, better known as Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, has acquired the grounds and old house, which is to be pulled...

Song and dance man, Frank Wallace, is caught in a contemplative mood just before his performance at a night club in New York, May 16, 1936. Wallace cl...

On the U.S. Military reservation at Fort Knox, Ky. work is rapidly nearing completion on the impregnable depository where more than half of the Nation...

Joe Humphries, veteran fight announcer, raises Tony Canzoneri's arm in victory after the lightweight champion's 10-round bout with Jimmy McLarnin, for...

Jimmy McLarnin, foreground, former welterweight champion, has just missed a right and Tony Canzoneri steps back and smiles. This is the first round o...

King Peter of Yugoslavia, left, and his brothers, Prince Tomislav, center and Prince Andreas, May 6, 1936. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Sunya Pratt, April 23, 1936 in Tacoma, shown in the yellow ordination robe she wore while receiving ceremonial initiation as the first white Budd...

Charlie Chaplin, the comedian, at left, and George Bernard Shaw, playwright are photographed when they met in Honolulu on March 3, 1936. They are t...

Al Schacht, opens the Boston Red Sox training here with an Indian war dance, An orignial interpretation, as Herb Pennock and Manush, right, look on,...

Senate Munitions Committee resumed hearing February 4, 1936 in Washington, D.C.. Senator Gerad P. Nye (R-nd), Chairman of the Committe, on the left, a...

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Actress Carole Lombard, right, and actress-singer Eadie Adams lunch at the Turf Club at the race track, Dec. 25, 1935, the opening of the Santa Anita...

Nobel Prize winners pose for the cameras before they are presented with their awards in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 10, 1935. From left to right; Brita...

F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover is seen in his Washington office, 1936. (AP Photo)

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

The Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, is shown holding one of her dogs, 1936. (AP Photo)

Unidentified pioneers celebrate the 75th anniversary of the completion of transcontinental telegraph lines, 1936. (AP Photo)

This is the interior of the gas chamber at the Nevada State Penitentiary in Carson City, Nev., seen 1936. (AP Photo)

Lefevre's painting of

Preparations for spinning the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge between Marin Country and San Francisco occupied crews October 10, 1935 . They were bus...

Thomas D. Corcoran, as he appeared before the house rules committee October 7, 1935 to deny charges of Rep. Brewster of Maine that he threatened Brews...

Nonchalant as usual, Joe Louis shows his admiring wife Marva the brutal left hand that sent Max Baer into oblivion in their bout at Yankee stadium Sep...

Female aviator, Laura Ingalls, walks away from her plane at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after beating the west-east transcontinental fl...

Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis stands over King Levinsky waiting for the opponent to rise after his second knockdown in the first round of a schedule 10-...

Maori Rugby Union team captain and fullback George Nepia is seen during practice after his arrival in Sydney, Aug. 1935. (AP Photo/The Sun)