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Irving Thalberg, motion picture studio executive, and his wife, actress Norma Shearer, wearing a black cossack suit and matching hat, pose in Hollywoo...

Workmen wearing steel helmets lay the catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Ca., Sept. 19, 1935. Spinning of the big suspension cable...

Workers install the first section of a huge safety net, at a cost of $98,000, that will extend from shore to shore beneath the Golden Gate Bridge span...

Sir Thomas Beecham sits on the

Humorist Will Rogers boards the plane of aviator Wiley Post shortly before take-off from Lake Washington, near Seattle, for a leisurely aerial tour of...

A plane, carrying aviator Wiley Post and humorist Will Rogers, takes off from Lake Washington, near Seattle, for a leisurely aerial tour of Alaska, on...

Simon Guggenheim, one of seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim who came to Philadelphia from Switzerland in 1848, is shown in New York on Aug. 2, 1935. (AP...

American businessman Simon Guggenheim, one of seven brothers of the Guggenheim family and former senator of Colorado, golfs with Max Steur in Vichy, F...

Max Steur golfs with Simon Guggenheim in Vichy, France, Aug. 1, 1935. (AP Photo)

Lawrence W. Cramer, newly appointed governor of the Virgin Islands, appears before the Senate Territories Committee for questioning on his fitness for...

This aerial view shows a crest of the Hoover Dam, aka Boulder Dam, showing the highway leading across it on July 16, 1935. The road, soon to be opene...

British battleship H.M.S. Renown, centre, leads H.M.S. Hood, left, and H.M.S. Iron Duke, far left, past Spithead to Southampton, England, July 16, 193...

Former major league player Frank

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt is shown as she plays croquet with her daughter Gloria, at her Smithtown estate on New York's Long Island, July 1, 1935. Litt...

While the decision as to her custody is being pondered by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, little Gloria Vanderbilt and her paternal aunt,...

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, right, mother of little Gloria Vanderbilt, is accompanied by her sister, Lady Thelma Morgan Furness, left, as she leaves the...

Joyce Wethered, Great Britain's premier woman golfer, second left, teamed up with Johnny Dawson of Chicago, right, as she makes her professional debut...

Dr. William E. Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany, speaks at the Festival for International Exchange of Pupil at the Berlin concert hall

11-year-old heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, center, and her friend, Louise Hutchinson, sit atop a wooden railing at the United Hunts Racing Association mee...

The Swastika flag, the Olympic flag and the flag of the Reichswehr stand waving over the construction site of the new Olympic Village outside Berlin,...

Movie producers and guests gather at a Hollywood Studio luncheon in Los Angeles, Ca., May 14, 1935. Guests, from left, include, Louis B. Mayer, head...

A man admires ancient Native American petroglyphs at Atlatl Rock in the Valley of Fire, Nevada, on May 10, 1935. These writings, which have never been...

Accompanied by a boduguard, a nurse, and a chauffeur, little Gloria Vanderbilt enters the home of her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in midtown Man...

The Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, is shown on board the S.S. Olympic as he arrives in New York City, March 12,...

Helene Mayer, world champion in women's fencing, is shown in Feb. 1935. Mayer, a student at Mills College in Oakland, Ca., is entered in the Men's Op...

Helene Mayer, world champion in women's fencing, right, competes against her first male opponent, Ferrand Leicester, in California, Feb. 1935. Mayer,...

Clad in a gray squirrel fur coat, little Gloria Vanderbilt arrives at the home of her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in midtown New York, January 1...

Betty Gow, nanny to aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, gives evidence at the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, in Flemington, N.J., Jan. 7, 1935. Hauptmann, un...

Mrs Ollie Whately, left, widow of aviator Charles Lindbergh's butler, and Betty Gow, nanny to the Lindbergh's baby, leave the courthouse at Flemington...

Young German recruits listen to a lecture on tank warfare, in the woods near their Berlin camp in 1935. All young men must join the German armed force...

Almost lost between her burly escorts, little Gloria Vanderbilt is shown as she arrives at the home of her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in midtow...

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, mother of little Gloria Vanderbilt, is shown at her New York City home during an interview, on November 22, 1934. 10-year-ol...

Britain's Winston Churchill, right, and former prime minister David Lloyd George, in conversation at the Printers' Pension Corporation Festival, at th...

King Ghazi of Iraq, far right in uniform, escorts members of the Swedish royal family to his new Qasr Al-Zahour palace, in Baghdad, November 9, 1934....

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, center, mother of little Gloria Vanderbilt, is assisted by a nurse and her attorney after she collapsed in the witness stand...

Thomas B. Gilchrist, right, co-guardian of little Gloria Vanderbilt, is being served with a subpoena by attorneys for the girl's mother, Gloria Morgan...

Anxious relatives await news at the pit-head of Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north Wales, Sept. 29, 1934, following an explosion half a mile below th...

Anxious relatives gather at the pit-head at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north Wales, Sept. 29, 1934, following an explosion half a mile below the su...

Well-wishers tip their hats as the grand luxury liner Queen Mary, new flagship of the Cunard-White Star Line, slips into the water during launch cerem...

New Cunard liner, the Queen Mary, slides down the slipway during her launch at the John Brown Shipyard, Clydebank, Scotland, Sept. 26, 1934. The liner...

New Cunard liner, the Queen Mary, slips into the water during her launch at the John Brown Shipyard at Clydebank, Scotland, Sept. 26, 1934. The liner...

Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, speaks at the dedication ceremonies of Sabandia, central Italy, on Sept. 24, 1934. (AP Photo)

Robert Guggenheim Jr., and his wife are shown aboard the Grace liner Santa Elena in New York City for a cruise to Mazatlan, Mexico, June 22, 1934. (A...

Barges take part in the annual Thames Sailing Barge race, on the River Thames, England, June 21, 1934. (AP Photo)

Actor Harold Lloyd and actress Alice Faye step off the train as they arrive for a visit in New York City from Hollywood, on May 30, 1934. (AP Photo)

Marguerite Alice LeHand, President Roosevelt's secretary, is show in her kitchen at home in Somerville, Ma., April 1, 1934.

Track and field Olympic gold medalist Mildred Babe Didrikson pitches for New Orleans of the Southern Association against the Cleveland Indians in Marc...

Fencing champion Helene Mayer, right, of Germany, practices with Mrs. Robert Belcher of the Los Angeles Athletic Club at Scripps College, Claremont, C...

Laurance Rockefeller is shown in this 1934 file photo. Rockefeller, a conservationist, philanthropist and leading figure in the field of venture capi...

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, right, poses with her daughter Gloria in this April 13, 1934 photograph, made after a Supreme Court decision placed the girl...