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Middleweight boxer Tony Zale of Gary, Indiana, poses after defeating Al Hostak on decision in a non-title bout, in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 29, 1940. Zal...

Jane Wyman appeared at the Los Angeles City Hall January 20, 1940 with her sweetheart on and off the screen, Ronald Reagan, to apply for a marriage li...

Edward Grant Barrow, 71-year-old president of the New York Yankees, is shown speaking on the telephone on Jan. 13, 1940. (AP Photo)

Screen actress Katharine Hepburn is shown in the 1940 film

The Waner brothers, Paul, left, and Lloyd, who made up two-thirds of the Pittsburgh Pirates outfield for two decades and were both elected to the Hall...

Ronald Reagan poses on the field in a scene from the 1940 film

Adriana Caselotti is shown arriving in New York on December 14, 1939. Caselotti, who as a convent-educated teenager in 1934 won the role as the voice...

Adriana Caselotti, who as a convent-educated teenager in 1934 won the role as the voice of sweet, innocent Snow White in Walt Disney's first feature-l...

Eleanor Roosevelt celebrating her 55th birthday in Washington October 11, 1939. (AP Photo)

Thomas Mann, German novelist and expatriate, is shown with Mrs. Katia Mann, right and their daughter, Erika, as they arrived in New York aboard the li...

Queen Elizabeth receives a cheer on her visit, September 13, 1939, to the headquarters of British women enlistees in the ambulance service in London....

Bill McKechnie, Cincinnati Reds manager, seen in this August 22, 1939 photo. (AP Photo/stf)

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Harlem religious leader Father Divine speaks to his followers on the subject of righteousness in New York City, July 16, 1939. (AP Photo)

Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, standing at right of the microphones, paid the respects of the City of New York to Lou Gehrig, left, as 60,000 fans jammed Y...

A hangman's noose dangling from an automobile, driven by a hooded Ku Klux Klan member, is among the grim warnings for blacks to stay away from the vot...

Bill Terry, left, manager of the New York Giants, shakes hands with Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Bees, as the National League teams met at New...

Ezra Pound, American poet and composer who lives at Rapallo, Italy, as he arrived here on the liner REX for his first visit to the United States in 18...

Stage actress Katharine Hepburn is shown during production of Philip Barry's comedy,

Stage actress Katharine Hepburn and co-star Van Heflin are shown in the stage production of

Diego Rivera, noted Mexican mural painter, shown on April 14, 1939 in Mexico City. (AP Photo)

Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and his wife and fellow artist, Frida Kahlo, stand together at their Mexico City house April 13, 1939. (AP Photo)

Managers Ray Schalk, left, of Indianapolis and Bill Meyer of Kansas City are shown just before starting their teams off on the American Association pe...

Told of indictments against Tom Pendergast, Missouri political leader, Senator Harry S. Truman (D-MO), shown in his Washington office April 7, 1939, c...

Here's Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds, National League batting king, as he slammed out a ball in his first batting practice at Tampa, Florida,...

In this modest home at Point Pleasant, Ohio, Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, future conquering general of the Union armies and President...

Al Simmons, formerly with the Washington Senators, now with the Boston Bees, is shown hitting a few in practice at the Bees spring training camp, Brad...

Roulette and other forms of placing a wager are legal in Nevada and divorce-seekers who throng to Las Vegas to take advantage of the six weeks residen...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt always has time to pet Fala, his Scottish terrier, seen here in 1939. (AP Photo)

John F. Kennedy, just returned from Berlin and London, reads the inevitable news, in 1939. (AP Photo)

This December 1938 photo shows farmers registering to vote in the cotton marketing quota referendum for 1939 in Pulaski County, Arkansas. (AP Photo)

Orson Welles is shown putting out his hands in embarrassment after his CBS radio broadcast over a national hookup October 30, 1938, which dramatized a...

Gabby Hartnett, Cubs manager and catcher, tried not to look gloomy in the dugout at Yankee Stadium, October 9, 1938 when he benched himself for the fo...

Ann Hartnett, mother of Gabby Hartnett, manager of the Chicago Cubs, was on hand October 5, 1938 for the first game of the World Series in Chicago aga...

27,000 Cleveland fans who came to witness Hank Greenberg's last assault on Babe Ruth's home run record saw the great Detroit slugger swing in vain, bu...

Here's Hank Greenberg, Detroit first sacker, and the big stick he's swinging at Babe Ruth's home run record of 60 for a season. The magic eye camera...

Chicago Cubs regular infield, left to right: Rip Collins, first base; Billy Herman, second base; Bill Jurges, shortstop; and Stan Hack, third base, A...

Standing under the big guns of the U.S.S. Houston, the reviewing ship, President Franklin Roosevelt, Commander-in-Chief of the nation's armed forces,...

While the sun boiled over New York on July 10, 1938, these Upper East Side kids splashed in one of the city's new swimming pools at 112th Street and F...

Boston Bees Manager Casey Stengel, left, argues with umpire Dick Campbell, after an incident occurred in the tenth inning of a game between the Bees a...

Wild rejoicing spread over the city in Washington, D.C., the night of June 22, 1938, after news of Joe Louis's victory over the German champion Max Sc...

Manager Burleigh Grimes (left) and Leo Durocher (right), team captain of the Dodgers, talking things over with their new teammate and first base coach...

Poet and folklorist Carl Sandburg is pictured, strumming the guitar at home with his wife and daughter Helga in Harbert, Michigan, June 18, 1938. San...

An American rocket pioneer whose work has won belated recognition, the late Dr. Robert H. Goddard is shown June 8, 1938 at Roswell, New Mexico, with o...

Paul Dean, right, former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, was in St. Louis June 1, 1938 for a conference with general manager Branch Rickey, left, after P...

Mel Ott, New York Giants' outfielder seen in this May 29, 1938 file photo, posed in his trademark batting stance, with one foot raised. (AP Photo)

Big Ed Barrow is shown on May 10, 1938, his 70th birthday, with Joe McCarthy, left, the Yankees manager, giving Ed the Yankees business manager, the

Joe DiMaggio, left, stellar slugger and outfielder of the Yankees, comes to grips, finally, with the Yankee boss, Col. Jacob Ruppert, right. There's $...

A characteristic study of two celebrated athletes and new members of the Chicago Cubs as they sat together April 24, 1938, on the bench in a Wrigley F...

Apparently ready for a contract, Goose Goslin, who once led the American League hitters (.379 in 1928), is seen working out with the Washington Senato...