AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

Reputed gangster chief Jack

Spanish novelist Pio Baroja is seen at the library of his home in Madrid, Spain, on November 24, 1931. (AP Photo)

This is a view of the two-million dollar Mormon Temple on the border of Waterton Lakes National Park in Cardston, Alberta, Canada, Nov. 19, 1931. (AP...

William H.

Norma Shearer, right center, presents the Oscar to Marie Dressler at the annual Academy Awards banquet in the Sala D'Oro, Biltmore Hotel in Los Angele...

Italian educator Maria Montessori is seen on October 1, 1931. (AP Photo)

As the first woman to be honored with the award, Amelia Earhart Putnam receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis...

This aerial view on July 20, 1931 shows the site of the projected Rockefeller Center, a commercial complex which will occupy a three block area from W...

American aircraft pilot Amelia Earhart is assisted by her husband, George Palmer Putnam, as she climbs out of the cockpit of her autogiro after comple...

A family of Norwegian laplanders and their dog pose outside their log home, May 28, 1931. (AP Photo)

American matador Sidney Franklin, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is dressed in bullfighting regalia for his portrait painted by New York artist Lilian Genth, left...

Willa Cather, American author and 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, is seen in this undated photograph. (AP Photo)

Willa Cather, American author and 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, is seen in this photo from March 1931. (AP Photo)

U.S. Customs agents unload the 700 cases of Canadian Scotch Whiskey from the fishing trawler

Dr. Albert Einstein, left, poses with fellow scientists after visiting the world's largest telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles, Cal...

A salesman shows a four-door Ford Model A to a customer in a showroom in 1931. (AP Photo)

John Leonard

Ronald Reagan, standing far right, is shown with other members of the student senate at Eureka College in Eureka, Ill., 1931. Reagan, known as

Child actor Jackie Cooper is shown in costume for the title character of the 1931 Hollywood movie

Child actor Jackie Cooper is shown in costume for his title character of the 1931 Hollywood movie

This aerial view shows New York's Herald Square at Broadway and 34th Street in 1931. In the background is the men's store Rogers Peet in the Herald S...

This 1931 photo shows Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, looking north, in New York City. (AP Photo)

The Reichstag, built in 1894 as the Parliament building in Berlin, Germany, is shown in 1931. (AP Photo)

This 1931 photo shows Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, looking north, in New York City. (AP Photo)

This 1931 photo shows New York's Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. (AP Photo)

Actress Irene Dunne and actor Richard Dix are seen in a scene of the Western drama

Actor and swimmer Johnnie Weissmuller, left, and his brother, Pete, are shown in swimsuits in Miami, Fla., on Dec. 26, 1930. (AP Photo)

Actress Norma Shearer poses with her Oscar at the Academy Awards banquet in the Fiesta Room, Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., Nov. 5, 1930. Shea...

Members of the Supreme Court of the United States are shown in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 13, 1930. Standing from left are, Justices Harlan F. Stone,...

Nobel laureate Dr. Robert A. Millikan is shown with his device for testing of the new cosmic rays in Los Angeles, Ca., on Sept. 25, 1930. The physici...

Red Grange, left, and Bronko Nagurski of the Chicago Bears are shown in an action pose on Sept. 13, 1930. (AP Photo)

Polo player Tommy Hitchcock, captain of the American team, is shown at Sands Point, Long Island, N.Y., on Aug. 10, 1930, before a polo match to determ...

U.S. President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, pause on a bridge as they take a stroll at Rapidan Camp, their weekend retreat in Syria,...

Charles

Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Albert A. Michelson, professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, is seen on June 23, 1930. (AP Photo)

Dr. Albert A. Michelson, awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1907, is shown with his aparatus in Irvine, Ca., on June 23, 1930. A vacuum tube a mi...

This aerial view shows the site of the projected Rockefeller Center in New York, prior to the beginning of demolition works, in June 1930. Two hundred...

A group of peasants, who work in the fields of their collective farm, are seen reading magazines and newspapers during rest hour, at an unknown locati...

P.G. Wodehouse, English humorist and short story writer, arrives with his daughter Lenora in Los Angeles, Calif., where he plans to work as a screenwr...

Johnny Weissmuller of Chicago, Ill., freestyle swimming champion, and Aileen Riggin of New York, women's professional diving champion, pose poolside a...

Actor Lew Ayres is shown in the role of Paul Baumera in the 1930 war movie

Novelist and angler Zane Grey is shown after catching his world record 1,040-pound blue marlin in Tahiti, 1930. (AP Photo)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, is shown in 1930. (AP Photo)

This photo circa 1930 shows a crowded sidewalk along New York's 14th Street shopping area. (AP Photo)

This 1930 photo shows car traffic along Fifth Avenue at the intersection of 42nd Street in New York City. (AP Photo)

Knute Rockne, bound to a wheelchair due to an infection in his right leg, is assisted to the side lines, on October 26, 1929, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva...

Former football player Walter Camp Jr., is shown at the Yale Club, New York, on September 24, 1929. (AP Photo)

Eleanor Roosevelt and her two sons, John, center, and Franklin Jr., are shown aboard the Belgenland on their arrival in New York City on Sept. 15, 192...

This is a close-up view of the towers and cables of the Brooklyn Bridge as painters can be seen on the cables in New York City on July 26, 1929. (AP...

American matador Sidney Franklin is shown during his debut in a Spanish bull ring at Seville, Spain, June 22, 1929. (AP Photo)