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American theatrical producer and theater owner Lee Shubert is seen in this July 1939 photo. (AP Photo)

Polo player Tommy Hitchcock is shown on his horse at Sands Point Long Island, N.Y., on May 7, 1939. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of the temple of Erechtheum on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, on May 2, 1939. The statues of the Porch of Maidens can be see...

A close up of the entrance to the British Embassy in Washington D.C., April 25, 1939. (AP Photo)

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. is seen engaged in a conversation with Archbishop MacDonald, during a ceremony at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 21, 1...

British physicist William Bragg, president of the Royal Society, arrives in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1939, to deliver the Pilgrim Trust Lecture w...

Actor Dan Dailey Jr., and actress Gale Robbins are shown in Hollywood, Ca., on March 9, 1939. Robinson is wearing a 1910 cocktail dress, which she we...

American theatrical producer and theater owner Lee Shubert is seen in this February 28, 1939 photo. (AP Photo)

British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, right, presents the Oscar to Bette Davis and Spencer Tracy, left, at the 1938 Annual Academy Awards at the Biltmor...

Women applying for limited civil service jobs, as laboratory helpers in the department of health, wait in line inside the 224th coast artillery armory...

John F. Kennedy, in his junior year at Harvard University, is shown at Harvard's Winthrop House in Cambridge, Ma., Jan. 24, 1939. Kennedy is taking l...

Businessman Robert Wood Johnson Sr., president of Johnson & Johnson medical firm, is shown on Jan. 16, 1939. (AP Photo)

Sen. Robert Wagner, D-NY, left, and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, R-Mich., talk before they go on the air in Washington for a radio debate about the Social...

Children of sharecroppers who are encamped beside a highway are schooled outdoors near New Madrid, Mo., Jan. 13, 1939. Hundreds of homeless families...

Seabiscuit, outside, works out through five-eighths of a mile in 59.4 seconds at the Santa Anita Race Track in a public workout between races in Arcad...

An airport customs official greets Czech refugee children from Prague on their arrival at Croydon airport in London, England, Jan. 12, 1939. (AP Phot...

The Kroll Opera House, decorated with swastika banners, serves as the new German parliament in Berlin, Germany, in Jan. 1939. The Jan. 30, 1939 sessi...

Actor Basil Rathbone is shown as Sherlock Holmes in the 1939 Hollywood movie,

The 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst is shown at the Wilhelmshaven pier, Germany, after commissioning ceremonies in Jan. 1939. (AP Photo)

German Jewish children learn English in a classroom in the refugee camp at Dovercourt Bay, England, Dec. 28, 1938. (AP Photo)

Russian director-actor Michael Chekhov is shown aboard the Normandie as he arrives in New York City on Dec. 28, 1938. (AP Photo)

A second installment of refugee children arrive from Vienna aboard a boat at Harwich, England, Dec. 12, 1938. Four hundred of the five hundred and tw...

Some of the two hundred Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany at Harwich this morning are shown having their first meal in the camp at Dovercourt B...

Firefighters are at the Fasanenstrasse synagogue, Berlin's biggest house of Jewish worship, after Nazis set fire to it in an anti-Jewish demonstration...

Thoroughbred racehorse War Admiral is led by trainer George Conway to the Pimlico racetrack in Baltimore, Md., for a brief workout, Oct. 31, 1938. Rid...

Thoroughbred racehorse War Admiral is shown during a workout with jockey Charley Kurtsinger at Pimlico in Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 26, 1938. (AP Photo...

After a sojourn in films under her real name of Louise Hovick, Gypsy Rose Lee, of strip tease fame, returned to her art of undressing act in San Franc...

Mickey Rooney, 18-year-old film actor, singer and dancer, plants his hands into the cement next to his footprint and signature in the forecourt of Gra...

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist, arrives aboard the liner Queen Mary in New York City for his annual concert tour, Oct. 18, 1938. (...

American aviator Col. Charles Lindbergh, center, in flying ensemble, walks from landing field at Tempelhof aerodrome in Berlin, Germany, on arrival on...

Actress Ann Harding is reading the congratulatory messages she received after making her stage debut in George Bernard Shaw's

Field Marshall Hermann Goering is shown during his two-hour speech at the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Sept. 10, 1938. (AP Photo)

John F. Kennedy, son of United States Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy, is shown on his arrival in New York, September 8, 1938, from Europe as...

Actor Clark Gable, left, producer David O. Selznick, center, and MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer sign contracts for the movie production of

The German Lufthansa airliner Brandenburg is seen midair on a non-stop flight between Berlin and New York, on August 11, 1938. The Focke-Wulf 200 Cond...

William Martin Jr., the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange, is shown at his desk as he starts his first full day on his new job in Ne...

William McChesney Martin Jr. (r) newly- elected president of the New York Stock Exchance is shown with his father, William McChesney Martin Sr, presid...

Douglas P. Corrigan stands beside his 1929 model Curtis Robin monoplane, nicknamed

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and her companion Shaun Plunket, take the penguins for a walk at London Zoo, June 30, 1938. (A...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, third from right, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, second from right, visit the penguins...

Donald Duck, Minnie and Mickey Mouse, and two of the Seven Dwarfs pose with their creator, Hollywood producer Walt Disney, after he received an Honora...

Jerome David Kern, musical composer, is shown playing the piano at his home in Beverly Hills,Ca., on June 2, 1938. Some of Kern's compositions includ...

The German cruiser Gneisenau is shown during its test run in the Baltic Sea on May 20, 1938. The 26-000-ton battleship will go into service May 21....

A line of Royal Air Force barrage balloons is suspended in the air, prior to ascending to their destined location, during a demonstration at Cardingto...

Thoroughbred racehorse War Admiral is shown with his trainer George Conway, right, and jockey Charley Kurtsinger, up, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.,...

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Automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, left, stands with aviation pioneer Orville Wright in front of the bicycle shop in which Wright and his brother, th...

Rudolf Hess, German Nazi Party functionary and deputy to Adolf Hitler, is seen posing on March 29, 1938, in Berlin, Germany (AP Photo)

The first motor cars travel on the seven-mile long bridge halfway between Miami and Island City as the Overseas Highway opens to traffic on March 29,...

People are gathering outside Bond Memorial Chapel on the University of Chicago campus, on March 15, 1938, as the casket containing the body of famed d...