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Actress Bette Davis is seen with her husband Arthur Farnsworth, Aug. 22, 1941, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Jockey Bill Pearson, who has been in a hospital since July 16, when he was injured in a three horse crackup, sees the final race of the season at Holl...

Times Square stopped for Franklin Roosevelt. speech, July 4, 1941 in New York City. (AP Photo)

David Ben-Gurion chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and leader of the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine whose...

Harry Richman, a day after he was sued for divorce by ex-show girl Hazel Forbes, on July 2, 1941 at Arlington Park, Chicago, Ill., sang 'God bless Ame...

David Ben Gurion and Moshen Shertok, receive the applause during Israeli Declaration of Independence ceremony, May 14, 1948. (AP Photo)

Captured Italian material and equipment take May 2, 1941. Agordat, Eritrea. Guns captured when the British Troops took Agordat. (AP Photo)

Italian native prisoners having a meal after being captured on the Cheren FrPose; Meal; ont, Eritrea, May 2, 1941 . (AP Photo)

Buses on Fifth Avenue after the strike settlement, March 22, 1941 in New York. (AP Photo)

Buses on Fifth Avenue after the strike settlement, March 22, 1941 in New York. (AP Photo)

Looking north from 42nd street, Fifth Avenue buses operate for the first day, March 22, 1941 in New York following end of the strike that tied up most...

Fifth Avenue, usually well filled with double-deck buses was fairly clear of traffic, March 13, 1941 in New York as pedestrians walked while the bus s...

Double deck buses on Fifth Avenue, March 13, 1941 in New York. (AP Photo)

This is a British military mission which has been in Abyssinia for 6 months, shown March 12, 1941. This is how they trekked 4,500 miles of jungle, in...

Van Lingle Mungo, Feb. 25, 1941. (AP Photo)

Billy Rose, left, picks girls for his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, Feb. 24, 1941, New York. The girls are unidentified. (AP Photo/John Lindsay )

Photo show Camels loaded with goods and ammunition on their trek through two hundred miles Ethiopian Jungle February 24. 1941AP Photo)

Haile Selassie (right), former ruler whose Ethiopian empire was absorbed by Italy, is back with an Ethiopian army recruited to aid the British in Afri...

Sandbag barricades were thrown up at strategic points inside the presidential palace in the heart of Havana, Feb. 3, 1941 after President Fulgencio Ba...

The Negus Haile Selassie (left, center) inspects Abyssinian troops in the Sudan on Jan. 26, 1941. The emperor now is reported back in Ethiopia rallyin...

British actor Laurence Olivier and actress Vivien Leigh in their hotel in London, England, Jan. 15, 1941, after their return from America wgere they w...

The body of Abe

After work at Sosua, a Jewish refugee settlement in the Dominican Republic, most of the colonists get down to the beach and lie around like this or ta...

A pipe runs along the side of a road in Sosua, Dominican Republic supplying water to Jewish refugees who have turned a 26, 000 acre tract into a colo...

A woman settler and a girl at Sosua, a seacoast area in the Dominican Republic, keep their knives busy preparing a meal on January 9, 1941. Food fo...

A Sosua Jewish settler and his wife take time out to put in a little work at home in their Dominican Republic community on January 9, 1941. He paint...

Most of the Sosua Jewish settlement in the Dominican Republic looks like this as seen on January 9, 1941. When building was begun, the settlers impor...

Image shows entry to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, with snow covered railtracks leading to the camp in January 1941. The Auschwit...

Actress Bette Davis is shown, 1941. (AP Photo)

Movie actor Chester Morris, 39, and Mrs. Lillian Kenton Barker, 29, applied for a marriage license on Nov. 20,1940 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Big Bill Tilden (right), now 47 and hailed as one of the Tennis greats of all time, strolls off the court in New York on November 1940, with Don Budge...

A construction worker throws a missile during a fight, Oct. 23, 1940 in Pine Lawn, a St. Louis suburb, between union and non-union workmen. A sign is...

Prof. Albert Einstein, left, and his daughter Margot, converse with federal Judge Phillip Forman after the German born scientist and 88 others were ad...

Albert Einstein raises his hand with his daughter, Margot, at right, and his secretary, Helen Dukas, to take oath of citizenship in Trenton, N.J. cou...

Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, left and Romanian foreign minister Michael Manoilescu, right, are met by Italian Foreign minister Count Galeazzo...

Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, center and Romanian foreign minister Michael Manoilescu, right, speak to German foreign minister, Joachim von Rib...

Fulgencio Batista, right, and his family are seen, July 25, 1940. From left, his wife Marta, daughter Mirta, and son Ruben, also known as Papo. (AP P...

Jules Romains, French Author known best for his men of good will series, and his wife, the former Lisa Dreyfuss, are shown above as they arrived in Je...

The Avenue Champs Elysees and all the caf?? terraces on it were thronged with Parisians, visitors and soldiers on leave with their families on a brigh...

The Avenue Champs Elysees and all the caf?? terraces on it were thronged with Parisians, visitors and soldiers on leave with their families on a brigh...

From left, Abe

Led by planes trailing smoke screens hide them from the enemy, some of the army???s newest types of tanks are shown advancing into ??sBattle??? during...

An exhibition of Ballroom dancing was part of the program for Mrs. Roosevelt???s White House Musical in Washington on Jan. 8, 1940 and in compliment t...

An exhibition of Ballroom dancing was part of the program for Mrs. Roosevelt's White House Musical in Washington, Jan. 8, 1940 and in compliment to th...

Paul Christman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christman, met their son on December 21, 1939 at Union Station in St. Louis, to bid him

British Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain,right, talks to French officers in France, December 15, 1939. (AP Photo)

President Franklin Roosevelt talks to South Carolina Governor Olin Johnston and Gladys Johnston at a breakfast in the mansion at Columbia to which 25...

Actress Bette Davis is seen, 1940. (AP Photo)

Photo show Harry Gold, alleged Communist spy, when he was graduated from Xavier College, Cincinnati back in 1940. (AP Photo)

First witness before a house appropriations sub-committee on Nov. 27, 1939, as hearings began on request for an additional $271,000,000 which four gov...