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Katsuji Debuchi, Japanese ambassador to the United States, and Madame Debuchi are shown May 13, 1932 at a memorial service for the late Pres. Paul Dou...

This was the scene in the thickly wooded section of Mount Rose, N.J., where the body of the Lindbergh baby was found May 12, 1932, by William Allen an...

Nearly 200 high masons, including many grand masters, were received at the White House by Pres. Hoover, May 10, 1932. Left to right in center are Wil...

Burgoo King, winner of the Kentucky Derby, is shown in the Winners' Circle with his jockey, Eugene James, May 8, 1932, at Churchill Downs in Louisvill...

President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany doffs his hat as he leaves the polling place in Berlin after casting his ballot in the Prussian elections, Ma...

New York Mayor James J. Walker greets George Washington, played by Kenneth Murchison, a short time after the latter crossed from New Jersey to New Yor...

Both in the forefront as possible democratic presidential nominees for 1932, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of...

Clarence Darrow, criminal lawyer and head defense counsel in the Fortescue case, is shown with with Duke Kahanamoku, famous swimmer, April 22, 1932 i...

Percy Avery Rockefeller, director of a large number of corporations, who has been called to appear before the Senate Banking Committee on April 22, 19...

Novelist Fannie Hurst stands amid the vegetables in an open market on the Lower East Side of New York City, April 13, 1932. (AP Photo)

Two American Nazis in uniform stand in the doorway of their New York office, April 1, 1932 when the headquarters opened. (AP Photo)

Hitlerites, or Nazis, in uniforms, stand in the doorway of their New York headquarters the day it opened, April 1, 1932. Adolph Hitler, leader of the...

This is a general view of the ceremony inside the new water tunnel in the Bronx borough of New York, March 30, 1932. The firing of a final blast mark...

From left to right: George J. Gillespie, president of the board of water supervision; Mayor James J. Walker; Joe V. Gallagher Jr., grandson of Patric...

Mrs. Helen Wills Moody is caught in striking action as she warms up for game on March 21,1932 at Pasadena,California.(AP Photo)

Retired U.S. Marines Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler is shown, March 5, 1932. (AP Photo)

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt bids goodbye to his gardener and housekeepers at his estate at Hyde Park, N.Y., March 1, 1933 as he leaves for N...

New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt shakes hands with captain J. A. Stevens, the American Olympic captain, at right, just before the start of the O...

Leona M. Marsh, the only woman cabbie in New York, is shown with her car and her dog Hotsy, Jan. 14, 1932. (AP Photo)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, poses for Louis Howe, left, a chief political aide and James A. Farley, campaign manager to Roosevelt for the 1932 D...

Boston Bruins hockey player, left wing, Marty Barry in 1932 photo. (AP Photo)

Sing Sing team member shown carring the ball for a gain for Sing Sing in the game November 15, 1931 between the prisoners and the Ossinging unit of th...

Bradford Washburn (left) of Cambridge, Mass., and Walter Everett of Arlington, Mass., photographed aboard ship in New York City September 17, 1931 wh...

Betty Carstairs of England, Mrs. Gar Wood of Detroit, Mich., and Gar Wood at the Detroit Yacht Club on Sept. 5,1931.For the first heat of the Harmswor...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing the New York State legislature during special session on Aug. 28, 1931 at Albany, New York. The governor a...

Unable to appear in current stage productions because of her part in the bitter stage union feud, Sophie Tucker, leader of an

Portrait of Gerhart Hauptmann, pictured at his home in Hiddensee at the Baltic Sea, Eastern Germany, August 1931. (AP Photo/Alfred Eisenstaedt)

Image shows German writer Gerhart Hauptmann, left, in the hallway of his home in Hiddensee at the Baltic Sea, Eastern Germany, August 1931, woman read...

Portrait of Gerhart Hauptmann, pictured at his home in Hiddensee at the Baltic Sea, Eastern Germany, August 1931. (AP Photo/Alfred Eisenstaedt)

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (left) with former Gov. Alfred E. Smith on July 25, 1931 at West Hampton, Long Island, just before Gov. Roosev...

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., taken on June 21, 1931 in Reno, Nevada, just after her husband filed suit for divorce on grounds of cruelty. She is the...

Louis Schneider, one time Indianapolis, Ind., motorcycle policeman, who won the 500-mile automobile race May 30, 1931 at Indianapolis, Indiana.(AP Pho...

The entire staff of the American Hospital at Neuilly, near Paris, France, was publicly thanked by U.S. governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, ri...

Jesse Harper, director of athletics at Notre Dame University, is shown back at the desk he vacated in favor of Knute Rockne 13 years ago, May 1, 1931....

This is the 200-room Ophir Hall in White Plains, N.Y., seen April 17, 1931, owned by Elisabeth Mills Reid, widow of newspaper editor Whitelaw Reid. (...

President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of Turkey has his hand kissed by an official, in the old Eastern fashion, April 6, 1931. (AP Photo)

Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., shown on his arrival on March 29, 1931 at Palm Spring, California from New York, completing his 30th transcontinental trip....

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, was the luncheon guest of Robert Moses, president of the Long Island Park Commission when he visited on Ju...

With the political hatchet buried for the evening, friend and foe alike, broke bread together on March 26, 1931 at the Legislative correspondents dinn...

With the political hatchet buried for the evening, friend and foe alike, broke bread together on March 26, 1931 at the Legislative correspondents dinn...

This is a view of the historic Pontalba apartments in New Orleans, La. where a fire March 11, 1931 caused an estimated $5,000 damage and threatened bo...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt had kind words for the New York City police force in his address on March 8, 1931 at the Broadway Temple. He is sh...

New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his annual message to the legislature on Jan. 7, 1931 in Albany, New York. Governor Roosevelt put...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt taking the oath of office on Jan. 1, 1931 in Albany, New York, for his second term. The Roosevelt family bible a reli...

Former Governor Alfred E. Smith and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt , sit during the oath ceremony for John T. Loughran and F. Walter Bliss, Supreme C...

New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt shown as he arrived on Dec. 11, 1930 in New York City, from Warm Springs, Georgia. He had been resting sin...

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Workers of the Ivanouvsk region enjoy a respite from labor while holding a production meeting in the fields in December 1931 at Russia. (AP Photo)

Gov. Franklin Roosevelt, of New York,