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General view of the bread line at Times Square and 43rd Street, on December 8, 1930, to receive sandwiches and coffee from a truck to help feed the un...

Col. Hubert Julian, daredevil flier and parachutist, and lately, the entire Air Force of Abyssinia, whose untimely crash as the only flier of his adop...

Being a father is great stuff, says Babe Ruth. Here the home run king is in his New York City apartment, November 4, 1930 reading to Dorothy, 9, Left...

Street scene of the opening of the West Side Express at Canal Street, New York, October 27, 1930. (AP Photo)

A portrait of Philadelphia A's slugger Jimmie Foxx, September 19, 1930. (AP Photo)

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, viewing a cane presented him by Robert Smith (left), and Harry Oldfield (right), while on a visit at the T...

Robert Moses

William Howard Taft is pictured in his robes as Chief Justice of the United States, February 5, 1930. He served in the post from 1921 to 1930. Taft...

Nedo Nadi of Italy, recognized as the greatest of living fencers, appears before an American audience at the New York Athletic Club on January 30, 193...

Soviet Drama professor Constantine Stanislavsky is shown in a 1930 portrait. (AP photo)

Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Lewis are shown arriving in New York from Stockholm aboard the S.S. Bremen, where the noted author received the 1930 Nobel Prize...

John Wayne is seen on hosreback during the filming of the western

Frank W. Woolworth brought chocolates within the reach of millions of Americans when at the turn of the century he convinced a manufacturer that such...

New York Gov. Franklin Roosevelt telephones Warden Lewis E. Laws of Sing Sing Prison from New York, Dec. 12, 1929, fifteen minutes before Frederick W....

Tombstone, Arizona, the one-time wide-open boom town and silver mining center of the southwest, is shown on November 25, 1929. This photo shows what...

Hack Wilson, centerfielder for the Chicago Cubs, is shown in this September 3, 1929 photo. (AP Photo)

The big guns in the Philadelphia Athletics lineup shown on September 3, 1929. Left to right: Jimmy Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, and Al Simmons. AP Photo...

Babe Ruth, the Yankees' big bludgeon man, stands in the dugout with a strained muscle in his left leg during a game at Cleveland July 19, 1929. (AP P...

Burleigh Grimes, veteran spitball pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates, shows some boys how to hold the ball on July 12, 1929. (AP Photo)

Film director Alfred Hitchcock, at right, with book in hand, rehearses a scene from

Eppa Rex Rixey, of the Cincinnati Reds pitching staff, is shwon during training at the Reds camp in Orlando, Florida, March 23, 1929. (AP Photo)

Inauguration Day for the newly elected Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Also shown in this January 2, 1929 photo is the former governor,...

Robert Moses

William Boyd points his gun at Clark Gable in scene from the 1929 Pathe film

Captain Sir Hubert Wilkens and his companion Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson were greeted at City Hall by Mayor Jimmy Walker, center, in New York in 1929, aft...

Governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt with Mayor James J. Walker at the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York, on December 27, 1928. (AP Photo)

A spectacular fire on Riverside Drive near Grant's tomb, the night of December 21, 1928, badly damaged the $2,000,000 Riverside Church under construct...

New York governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to 150 children at the Beekman Street Hospital December 20, 1928. (AP Photo)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, arriving at Town Hall, Hyde Park, New York, one mile from his home, to vote November 6, 1928. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, wife of the Democratic nominee, and her daughter, Mrs. John Warner at a luncheon given in their honor by the Democratic Womens C...

St. Louis Cardinals' manager Bill McKechnie, September 27, 1928. (AP Photo)

Rabbit Maranville, shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals poses with a bat on September 26, 1928. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1954. (AP Phot...

Chick Hafey, who plays left field, is one of the heavy hitters on the St. Louis National League nine, September 21, 1928.(AP Photo)

Sinclair Lewis, famed American author, is pictured as he arrived in New York on August 27, 1928, aboard the SS Hamburg with his bride, the former Doro...

Herbert Hoover with his campaign plans in mind, with Charles G. Dawes on the rear platform of the train at the Union Station, Chicago. Mrs. and Mrs....

Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, leaders of the Republicans in the 1928 campaign, are shown in this June 19, 1928 photo. (AP Photo)

Members of the 1928 New York Yankee outfield, from left to right are, Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Earl Combs. (AP Photo)

From left to right: Bob Walsh, Ed Walsh, Sr., and Ed Walsh, Jr. are seen in February 1928. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is seen in 1928. (AP Photo)

A still from the 1928 film,

President Lyndon Johnson, lower right, is shown with other members of the faculty of Cotulla, Texas elementary school in 1928. Johnson interrupted hi...

Lyndon Johnson is shown with three other faculty members when he taught elementary school in Cotulla, Texas in 1928. The women, from left, are: Mrs....

Lyndon Johnson, back row, center, principal and teacher at Welhausen School, in Cotulla, Texas in 1928. Johnson is shown with the Athletic Club he or...

Marilyn Monroe is pictured here in her childhood days, in 1928. (AP Photo)

Shown left to right are: John L. Lewis, president of the miners union; William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; and Frank Morris...

Charles Lindbergh flies

New York Giants' Edd Roush shown during an exhibition game with the Washington Senators at the Polo Grounds in New York, April 9, 1927. (AP Photo)

Mel Ott, star outfielder of the New York Giants, poses at the start of his second season in the Big Leagues, April 9, 1927. (AP Photo)

Burleigh Grimes in seen in this1927 photo. In his only year with the New York Giants, Grimes had a record of 19-8. (AP Photo)

Noted British golfing great Harry Vardon poses in 1927. Vardon was a 6-time winner of the British Open, winning the tournament in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1...