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Physicist Albert Einstein, center, and his wife, Elsa, pose with Gov. James Rolph of California during a meeting in which the governor extended offici...

James Joyce, author of the novel

James Joyce, author of the novel

Sigmund Freud contemplates a bust of himself, sculpted for his 75th birthday by O. Nemen, centre, and presented to him in 1931 in the garden of his vi...

Rae Samuels holds the last bottle of beer that was distilled before prohibition went into effect in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 29, 1930. The bottle of Schli...

French painter and sculptor Henri Matisse is seen in this December 15, 1930 photograph. (AP Photo)

Alicia Patterson stands beside her plane after landing at Roosevelt Field in New York, Oct. 30, 1930. Patterson travelled about 350 miles in one hour...

Eugene O'Neill, Irish-American author and playwright, is shown with his third wife, actress Carlotta Monterey, near Tours in the Loire Valley in Franc...

U.S. President Herbert Hoover, right, and first lady Lou Henry Hoover stand at the steps of the new model Red Cross Chapter House which the president...

The palatial yacht

Gallant Fox, with jockey Earl Sande up, wears the roses after winning the 1930 Kentucky Derby. Gallant Fox went on to win the Triple Crown. (AP Photo)

Barges and ships are moored in the Pool of London, on the River Thames, near Tower Bridge, Sept. 30, 1929. (AP Photo)

Lt. Alford J. Williams Jr., United States Navy racing pilot, is shown in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 10, 1929. (AP Photo)

Alford J. Williams flies his Mercury racing monoplane on the Severn River at Annapolis, Md., Aug. 10, 1929. The aircraft flies at a speed of 110 mile...

Authorities unload cases of whiskey crates labeled as green tomatoes from a refrigerator car in the Washington yards on May 15, 1929. The grower's ex...

Lt. Alford J. Williams, of the United States Naval Air service, receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Ada...

Pedestrians on London Bridge watch boats and barges being unloaded, in the Pool of London, on the River Thames, April 20, 1929. (AP Photo)

This view shows the U.S. border station between Calexico, Calif., and Mexicali, Mexico, on March 9, 1929. Motor cars are waiting in line at the immig...

Maj. Henry Seagrave, British race car driver, shows a model of his newest racing automobile, the

Germany's former Kaiser Wilhelm II poses with his favourite dog for his official 70th birthday portrait, in exile in Doorn, Netherlands, Jan. 27, 1929...

U.S. President Herbert Hoover, left, and his wife, first lady Lou Henry Hoover, are shown on the deck of the U.S.S. Maryland as the steam ship travels...

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, center wearing hat, and first lady Grace Coolidge, left behind her husband, are shown at a rodeo on Coffin Estate, Sap...

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, left, and Harry F. Guggenheim are shown before they take off from New York's East River at 42nd Street in a Loening Amphibi...

Gov. Alfred E. Smith, D-N.Y., nearing the close of his campaign for president, addresses supporters in a packed house at the Academy of Music in Brook...

Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York campaigns for the presidential nomination in Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 18, 1928. Gov. Smith, who has served four terms as...

Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic Presidential nominee, waves his brown derby hat during his visit to the National Soldiers Hospital on his campaign t...

Gov. Alfred Emanuel Smith receives a welcome during his campaign tour in Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 22, 1928. Gov. Smith, who has served four terms as g...

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, third from left, are shown with the President of Cuba Gener...

Winston Churchill is shown in 1928. (AP Photo)

Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York waves his bowler hat to the crowd during his presidential campaign tour in 1928. Gov. Smith, who has served four te...

Lt. Alford Williams is shown inside the cockpit of his new speed plane for testing at Port Washington, N.Y., Aug. 1, 1927. The 24-cylinder motor driv...

Irish-American author and playwright Eugene O'Neill poses with his second wife, Agnes Boulder, who holds daughter Oona, and son Shane during their win...

Looking toward the north from 42nd Street, this 1927 photograph shows the Times Square area of Manhattan, New York City, with Hotel Cadillac in the fo...

Irish dramatist, critic and novelist George Bernard Shaw holidays in Italy in 1927 with his wife Charlotte. (AP Photo)

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill walks around Cap Ferrat while on holiday in southern France in January 1927. Sitting on the wa...

The flower covered casket of Rudolph Valentino, the world's most famous screen lover, is carried into the church of St. Malachy, New York, Aug. 23, 19...

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, left, stands with Lieutenant Undahl, who is his pilot in the attempt to fly over the North Pole, at the doorway to...

This view shows the columns in the basement of the Capitol Building, which support the dome and are known as the hold of the forty columns, in Washing...

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and first lady Grace Coolidge are shown with their dog at the White House portico in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 5, 1924....

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, are shown on the platform of their private car at Pennsylvania Station on Apri...

Eamon De Valera, a leader of the Irish independence movement, gives a speech at Ennis in County Clare, Ireland, August 26, 1923. (AP Photo)

U.S. first lady Grace Coolidge is shown in the presidential suite of the New Willard Hotel in Washinton, D.C., Aug. 7, 1923. The Willard Hotel is tem...

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, right, and his wife first lady Grace Coolidge are shown at the Willard Hotel's presidential suite in Washington, D.C.,...

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, right foreground, and first lady Grace Coolidge, left, attend the viewing for the late President Warren G. Harding, ly...

This is an aerial view of the Times Square area in Manhattan, New York City, looking toward the south, with the Times Tower on 42nd Street prominent i...

A crowd gathers for an anti-prohibiton rally with speakers at Madison Square Park in New York's Flatiron district, 1922. In the background at left is...

People who have been arrested in the federal drive against radicals are shown as they arrive at Ellis Island, in New York City, on April 7, 1920. Depo...

Francisco

Aviation pioneers John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-land their Vickers Vimy aircraft in a bog near the wireless station at Clifden, Ireland,...

The 117th supply train, 42nd U.S. Division, is shown enroute from Roncourt to Rolampont, Haute Marne, France, during World War I in 1918. (AP Photo)