AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

President Franklin Roosevelt, as he returned to Washington the night of Sept. 15, 1938 was greeted by U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, left, wh...

Before leaving Rochester, Minn., to return to Washington, President Franklin Roosevelt expressed his appreciation to Dr. H.K. Gray (left) the surgeon...

British Premier Sir Neville Chamberlain waves his hat greeting the crowd in Munich, Germany, September 1938. (AP Photo)

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fokine Russian ballet master and wife, Vera who is former ballerina, August 22, 1938. (AP Photo)

Admiral Nikolaus von Horthy, regent of Hungary, is pictured in his uniform, prior to his trip to Germany August 20, 1938. (AP Photo/Burr)

Alexander Pompez, former policy banker of Harlem, told the hineg conspiracy trial in New York on August 19, 1938 that at a meeting with J. Richard (Di...

A heroes welcome, air filled with flying streamers and bits of paper, was roared out of Lower Broadway, July 15, 1938 in New York when Howard Hughes a...

New Orleans Police raided headquarters of the Seamen's Union, July 10, 1938 and arrested 86 men because of the type of circulars issued by the CIO dur...

German engineer and aircraft designer Prof. Dr. Dr. Ernst Heinkel, right, stands with General Ernst Udet in front of the record breaking propeller pla...

The decorated Unter Den Linden, Berlin, on April 30, 1938. (AP Photo)

All traffic stopped in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, and all over Germany,for two minutes punctually at 12 o'clock on April 9, 1938, when the howls of siren...

Harvard football player Peter Pratt, left, of Boston, Miss Eileen Herrick, and Nanthaniel Benchley gang up on the bird in the New York stork Club, Apr...

In this first picture since undergoing an operation, Actor Spencer Tracy, right, is shown with his wife Louise Tracy after he won the Best Actor's Per...

Van Lingle Mungo stretching the sturdy right arm as he gets the old wing in pitching order, March 28, 1938 at the Dodgers' Clearwater, Fla., training...

Barriers which separated Austria and Germany at the Border are shown here on March 14, 1938, being removed by Austrian customs men with the peaceful o...

German infantry, with all their equipment on pack horses, cross the river Salzach and march into Salzburg, Austria, March 13, 1938, watched by a large...

John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador to Great Britain, who swims in the backstroke event for the varsity swimming team at Harvard, wh...

"The Erbach suit of Maximiliam Armor," which is included in the art collection of William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, is also in plans for disposa...

John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador to Great Britain, who swims in the backstroke event for the varsity swimming team at Harvard war...

John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador to Great Britain, leaves the pool at Harvard University March 10, 1938. Kennedy, shown after...

John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador to Great Britain, who swims in the backstroke event for the varsity swimming team at Harvard, wh...

Cecil Smith of Texas, one of the nation's few ten-goal Polo star, is shown about to Hammer the ball for a score when his team, the Rangers, beat Midwi...

When motorcycle police attempted to break up a crowd of more than 1,500 hosiery workers who had gathered to protest sale of machinery of a Philadelphi...

Casey Stengel, in a new Managerial uniform, took a good look from behind this cage as his Boston Bees began sharpening their skills, Feb. 25, 1938 at...

Casey Stengel, in a new Managerial uniform, took a good look from behind this cage as his Boston Bees began sharpening their skills, Feb. 25, 1938 at...

Foreign minister of the German Reich, Dr. Konstantin von Neurath, center, talks to the smiling, wife of the Yugoslav Prime Minister Dr. Milan Stoyadin...

Auburn halfback Stiz (11) finds a good opening in the Michigan State line and goes off left tackle for a gain in the Orange Bowl game at Miami Jan. 1,...

Actress Bette Davis is shown in her role as a high-spirited southern girl in the film

Actress Bette Davis is shown in her role as a high-spirited southern girl in the film

This is a view of the Schoenbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria. The palace begun in 1694 with Versailles as the pattern is 656 feet long and has 1441 rooms...

Lord Halifax, Freiherr (Baron) Konstantin von Neurath and Sir Nevile Henderson, fourth man not identified from left to right, chat at the railway stat...

The Army fumbled on its own 15-yard line in first quarter of its grid battle with Notre Dame and Notre Dame recovered, Nov. 13, 1937, New York. Army h...

This Notre Dame play started well enough with Stevenson (32) taking the ball from Burnell (40) but it wound up with Stevenson throwing a pass which wa...

Joe Beinor, Notre Dame Tackle, right, recovers as Army fumble on the 13-yard line in 1st period of game at Yankee Stadium, Nov. 13, 1937, New York. La...

West Point cadets moved in on New York City, Nov. 13, 1937 for the Army-Notre Dame football game. After the game, which the Irish won, the Cadets put...

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Past the shell-scarred municipal building in Kiangwan??"symbolic of the destruction there of China???s rule on Oct. 27, 1937??"rumbles a field gun det...

George Selkirk, Yanks outfielder, is safe at first base in the 5th inning as Hal Schumacher drops McCarthy's bad throw in the third game of the World...

Tony Lazzeri of the Yankees is congratulated by the batboy as he crosses home plate on his homer in eight inning of first 1937 World Series game at Ya...

Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas addresses an audience of sharecroppers in Bay Bridge, Ark., telling them

Brown shirted storm troopers and bodyguards as well as the party???s motorized formation jammed the Luitpold Arena in Nuremberg on Sept. 12, 1937, whe...

Photo shows a model of the planned new Olympic stadium, designed by Albert Speer, to be built in Nuremberg, Germany, as interested visitors inspect th...

First pictures of Japanese occupation of Peiping in China, on August 13, 1937. Under the banner of the rising sun, Japanese troops are shown passing f...

First pictures of Japanese occupation of Peiping in China, on August 13, 1937. Under the banner of the rising sun, Japanese troops are shown passing f...

A cartoon headed

This city, capital of the Basques, is returning rapidly to normally since General Franco?s Spanish rebels captured it June 19, scarcely firing a shot....

British Premier Sir Neville Chamberlain, right, gives a thick boock as present by the conservative party with 558 registered unions and copanies of pa...

Jacob Schick, retired U.S. Army officer, inventor of an electric dry shaver, now a Canadian citizen, poses June 19, 1937. (AP Photo)

The United automobile workers of America said, May 27, 1937 in Detroit, Mich., it will prosecute

John J. Raskob testified May 21, 1937 that in his