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Ted Williams is at bat at Fenway Park in Boston, Ma., on June, 15, 1939. (AP Photo)

After attending Sunday services together, the first families of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America pose on the veran...

Four members of the first families of Great Britain and United States are shown on the front porch of the Roosevelt Family home at Hyde Park, N.Y., Ju...

After being received by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Washington's Union Station, June 8,1939 the United Kingdom's King George VI and Queen Eliza...

Alan Lomax plays his guitar with his wife looking on in New York, on June 3, 1939. Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's a...

Lady Edwina Mountbatten, left, and playwright Noel Coward, center, are shown arriving at a Garden party in England, June 1939. (AP Photo)

This general view looks south on the homestretch at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Track, called the Brickyard, during the 27th running of the Memori...

Rose Kennedy, wife of the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, is shown on her arrival on the the French liner Normandie in New York City, May 2...

Walter Hagen is shown in action at the U.S. Open golf championship in Overbrook, Pa., May 22, 1939 (AP Photo)

Joseph Kennedy, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, and his wife, Rose Kennedy pose at the foot of the grand staircase of their London home, En...

Gloria Vanderbilt, left, and her Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney pose as they return to New York after a vacation in Cuba, April 28, 1939. (AP Photo...

The Cook County Criminal Court House Building, at 26th and California Ave., in Chicago, Ill., is shown on April 26, 1939. (AP Photo)

This is a view of the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn showing part of the Manhattan skyline on April 19, 1939. The suspension bridge spanning the East...

Mexican muralist Diego Rivera poses before his latest work, a nude painting of dancer Maudelle Bass titled

The USS aircraft carrier Lexington, with its deck loaded, is shown in this aerial view as the fleet steams into Hamton Roads during a 15-day stay in t...

Migrant workers are shown inside a pick-up truck in central California on April 5, 1939 during the Great Depression. (AP Photo/Dorothea Lange)

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits at the steering wheel of his automobile at Warm Springs, Ga., on April 4, 1939. President Roosevelt parried...

William Patrick Hitler, 28, and his mother, Mrs. Alois Hitler, leave St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, April 2, 1939, after attending Palm Sun...

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The 74-passenger Yankee Clipper is seen from a navy plane in this aerial photo as it wings its way over Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1939. The Clipp...

Gen. Francisco Franco, leader of the Nationalist forces, salutes from his specially built armored car as he makes a triumphant entry into Barcelona in...

The 35,000-ton Bismarck, largest battleship built by the Third Reich, is launched at Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 14, 1939. In attendance are Nazi dignitar...

Members of the men's speed skating Olympic team pose at La Crose, Wis., Feb. 6, 1939, where they competed in the National Speed Skating Championships,...

Mary Dolan, right, of Minneapolis, finishes first in 21.7 seconds in the 220-yard final of the National Outdoor Skating Championship in La Crosse, Wis...

Felix Frankfurter, the new associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, poses in his judicial robe for his portrait in Washington, D.C., on F...

Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing traditional white hoods and robes, stand back and watch with their arms crossed after burning a 15-foot cross at...

This is a general view of Main Street of Las Vegas, Nev. Jan. 27, 1939. (AP Photo)

Winners in the National Figure Skating championships, from left, M. Bernard Fox, Joan Tozzer, and Robin Lee, pose with their trophies at St. Paul, Mo....

John F. Stevens, past president and honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, is shown on Jan. 20, 1939. Stevens was the chief engi...

Leni Riefenstahl, German film actress and director, waves from a window on Jan. 18, 1939. (AP Photo)

Mexican cotton pickers labor in the sun as they bend over rows of white cotton with their long bags dragging behind them in a field in Texas, 1939. T...

The first Lincoln Continental, an offshoot of the Lincoln Zephyr series and developed under the leadership of Edsel Ford, is introduced on Oct. 2, 193...

American adventure writer and traveler Richard Halliburton is shown at an unknown location with the prow of his boat in which he traveled to China to...

This is a portrait of Frank James, brother of Jesse, taken when he was 58 years old, which hangs in the home of his widow, Annie Ralston James, in Kea...

George Bush is shown at age 14 or 15 in 1939. Bush was born in 1924 in Milton, Mass., and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Phill...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and King George VI enter the Parliament Buildings with Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1939....

Two firefighters are directing a hosepipe on to the fire, during war exercise in London in this 1939 photo. More than 500 members of the London Auxili...

Leni Riefenstahl, German film actress and director, gets a lesson in rope twirling from Gene Coffie on a visit to a dude ranch at Marshalia, near San...

Inmates of a German concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, stand in line during attendance check, on December 19, 1938. (AP Photo)

Davey O'Brien, right, All-American football star of Texas Christian University, receives the Heisman Trophy from Walter P. Holcombe, President of the...

The New York Giants play the Washington Redskins in a football game at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Dec. 4, 1938. A crowd of 57,461 saw the Gia...

This December 1938 photo shows Lloyd Gaines, a young black American, who applied to University of Missouri's law school and was denied admission. He c...

This is a general view of Bethlehem at Christmas time in Dec. 1938. At left are the Bells of Bethlehem in the tower of the Church of the Nativity. A...

Financier J.P. Morgan Jr. is shown on Nov. 17, 1938 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Pearl Buck, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in literature, smiles in the office of her husband and publisher in New York City on Nov. 10, 1938. Buck i...

Leni Riefenstahl, German film actress and director who is visiting America for the first time, poses after arriving aboard the liner Europa in New Yor...

Joseph Kennedy, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, and his wife, Rose Kennedy arrive at Dorchester Hotel for the annual Trafalgar Day dinner o...

British machine guns and sandbag barricades are set up in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine, Oct. 26, 1938. (AP Pho...

New York Yankees pitcher Vernon

Neville Chamberlain, Britain's Prime Minister, waves the 'No war Anglo-German pact', at Heston, England, upon his return from Germany during the crisi...