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Russ Colombo, screen actor and orchestra leader shown in a 1930s circa photo. Colombo was shot and wounded seriously on Sept. 2, 1934, in the accide...

Bukharin,Russian communist in 1930. (AP Photo)

American agricultural machinery and tractors are to be found everywhere in Russia. In the picture is shown a group of peasants in the Yaisk district e...

Lord Balfour poses for camera, 1930. (AP Photo)

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, right, and Glenn H. Curtiss, left, discuss The 7,000 Mile South America Journey At Pan American Airways Field, Miami, Fl.,...

The United States lost the Ryder Cup to the British team at Moortown, England, April 27, 1929 by a score of 7 to 5. Walter Hagen, captain of the Ameri...

Police escort an arrested communist from a street near Hermannplatz, Berlin, May 1, 1929, after serious fighting between them. Nine people were killed...

May Day ended in fierce fighting in Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1929, with nine people being killed and more than 100 injured during the riots. The headqu...

James J. Braddock of Jersey City, scores a technical knockout over Jimmy Slattery, Buffalo lightheavyweight, in the ninth round of a scheduled ten rou...

Walter Hagen, British Open champion and Captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team which sails April 10th. Photo taken Jan. 17, 1929. (AP Photo)

MacDonald Smith of the Lakeville Golf and Country Club, Great Neck,Llliniois, winner of the $10,000 Los Angeles open golf tournament for the second su...

The English Flag is lowered as the last English troops left in Wiesbaden, Rhineland, in 1929, prepare to evacuate. (AP Photo)

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Queen Victoria of Sweden, shown in 1929 photo, who has long been an invalid, is reported to have taken a turn for the worse. The latest bulletin issu...

Marshall Ferdinand Foch was made commander-in-chief Allied Armies, March 18, 1929. (AP Photo)

Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen are three mighty men of the links who pitted their skill. Hagen and Sarazen defeated Farrell and Jones on u...

Madam Krupskaya, center of front row, widow of Lenin is still the recognized leader of the Soviet women. She is shown inside the famous Kremlin palace...

British police pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury is shown, 1928. (AP Photo)

Boxer Gene Tunney is down in the seventh round with Jack Dempsey standing in a neutral corner and the referee tolling the over the champion in Chicago...

U.S. Marines Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler, right, watches the Marines embark at San Diego Harbor with Col. Charles S. Hill, Feb. 7, 1927. (AP Photo)

American boxer Jack Dempsey and American Gene Tunney are shown in action in 1927 for the heavyweight title. (AP Photo)

This is the funeral procession of Sun Yat-sen in China, March 1925. (AP Photo)

Actress Tallulah Bankhead is shown as she returns from London where she appeared on stage in

Nicolas Bukharine member of the political bureau of the central committee of the Russian Communist party and the editor of the daily Moscow newspaper

Sir Oswald Mosley and wife Lady Cynthia are shown in 1925. (AP Photo)

Poet Robert Frost shown in 1924.(AP Photo)

The first meeting of the council of the league of Nationas, September 10, 1924 at Geneva, prior to the big Assembly. (AP Photo)

Assembly on the League of Nations, Sept. 13, 1923 at Geneva. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the Free State Guard searching for arms and ammunition, Dec. 12, 1922, Dublin, Ireland. (AP Photo)

Vaudeville comedian Fanny Brice poses Oct. 3, 1922. (AP Photo)

Free State soldiers shown advancing across the country to outflank the Republicans at Bunduff, Oct. 1, 1922, Ireland. Gen. Sweeney, whose army is loca...

Gen. Sweeney's forces in action, driving the Republicans toward Rahilly, where Gen. McKeown, advancing from the south, has the mail body of Republican...

Free State soldiers funeral of Dublin battle victims, July 15, 1922, Dublin, Ireland. (AP Photo)

Rebel forces surrender, July 13, 1922, Dublin, Ireland. (AP Photo)

The release of Irish prisoners from English jails after the signing of the peace treaty at the final London conference, Dec. 30, 1921, Ireland. Shown...

Vladimir Lenin poses for camera, 1922 at Gorky. (AP Photo)

Mahatma Gandhi is shown in a portrait, 1922. (AP Photo)

Soldiers are seen on guard with fixed bayonets on York Street in Belfast, Ireland during rioting between Unionists and Nationalists, July 14, 1921. (A...

League of Nations in session, 1921 at Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo)

Armored cars patrol a troubled area, Oct. 5, 1920, Ireland. (AP Photo)

Second meeting of the league on September 28, 1920. Center of photo is presiding M. Leon Ourgeois. On this right is to be seen Mr. Fisher and Mattui J...

Winston Churchill with Albert Thomas leaving 10 Downing Street on June 14, 1920 in London. (AP Photo)

Jewish refugees, arriving on April 14, 1920 in Haifa, Palestine, aboard the

Lawyer and politician William Jennings Bryan is shown, 1920. (AP Photo)

William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, is shown, 1920. (AP Photo)

Gen. John J. Pershing, right, and Sir Douglas Haig are shown at Chateau Val des Ecoliers, April 4, 1919. (AP Photo)

The runners for the 315th regiment infantry. They carried the official orders to Lieut. Col. Bunt under heavy shell fire on Nov. 11, 1918 at Etraye, M...

A flag-waving throng greets the news of the first world war's armistice, Nov. 11, 1918, in front of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)

Cheering troops of the American Army Corps greet Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train in the railroad yard, at Compiegne, Oise, France, Nov. 11, 1918. (AP...

General John J. Pershing, commander of the American expenditionary forces, seen with American and French officers, arrives in France with a group of A...