AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Manager Casey Stengel, left, of the Boston Bees, is, no doubt, chatting about the fine cool weather were having this summer with Bick Campbell, Nation...

Two-ton Tony Galento, Orange, N.J., heavyweight, his face already battered by the punches of former heavyweight champ. Max Baer, appeared to be playin...

Johnny Mize, St. Louis Cardinals, pre-game batting practice at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, on May 20, 1940. (AP Photo)

Prohibition Party delegates to the convention which ended in Chicago, on May 10, 1940 are shown demonstrating following the nomination of Roger W. Bab...

Roger W. Babson (center), 64, Massachusetts statistician, is escorted to the platform at the Prohibition Party???s National convention in Chicago, on...

Roger W. Babson (center), 64, Massachusetts statistician, is escorted to the platform at the Prohibition Party???s National convention in Chicago, on...

With trainer Roy Waldron holding on to the bridle and Jockey Carroll Bierman in the saddle, Gallahadion gets a few flowers for a mile and a quarter ca...

Gallahadion beating Bimelech (on rail), the odds-on-favorite, and Dit in the 66th running of the blue ribbon turf classic at Churchill Downs in Louisv...

Gallahadion beating Bimelech (on rail), the odds-on-favorite, and Dit in the 66th running of the blue ribbon turf classic at Churchill Downs in Louisv...

The German censor approved caption accompanying the above picture said it was a crew in a Junkers plant in Germany, April 15, 1940 putting finishing t...

The German censor approved caption accompanying the above photo described it as a picture in a Junkers plant in Germany, April 15, 1940 with a crew co...

Actor Pat O'Brien welcomes Mrs. Knute Rockne to California and Warner Bros. Studios, April 12, 1940 where

Even as the French fear the Maginot line is soon to be pounded by the Nazis and war Rages hot and heavy on the Scandinavian front this big gun of the...

As townspeople watch, Polish police inspected the wares of this vendor, spread out on a snowy street in Krakow, March 14, 1940, in German-occupied Pol...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown at Pensacola, Fla., on March 2, 1940 upon completion of a 4,000 miles cruise which took him to the Canal Zone...

The moment President Franklin D.Roosevelt arrived in Washington on March 2, 1940 after his voyage, Secretary of State Cordell Hull center, engaged...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his party are shown coming ashore at Balboa, Canal Zone, from the cruiser Tuscaloosa on Feb. 27, 1940 when the chi...

Defense equipment in the Canal Zone was inspected first hand by President Roosevelt who paused on his trip through the Panama Canal on his way to the...

President Franklin D Roosevelt at party on fishing expedition aboard the cruiser on Feb. 15, 1940 at Pensacola, Fla. (AP Photo)

President Roosevelt, seated under the awning, waves a goodbye as he leaves on a ??sfishing expedition??? aboard the Destroyer Lang from Pensacola, Fla...

Col. A.C. Crawford (right), retired, talking to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. David Gray, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's maternal aunt, at Lincoln Memoria...

Here is a candid pose of President Franklin Roosevelt speaking, from the White House portico, to the American Youth Congress delegates gathered on the...

Approximately 3,000 members of the Youth Congress stood in a drizzling rain on the White House lawn in Washington, Feb. 10, 1940, to hear President Fr...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he appeared in his White House office on Jan. 30, 1940 in Washington on his 58th birthday. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Franklin D. Roosevelt on his 58 birthday at his White House on Jan. 30, 1940 in Washington. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt spent part of his 58th birthday, on Jan. 30, 1940 in Washington reading approximately 1,500 telegrams and cablegrams o...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt finally got his birthday cake in one piece. On the preceding day, the 300-pound pastry was broken in transit to the...

It was the President?s horse show at Ft. Myer, Va. on Jan. 25, 1940 and the president himself braved the New Year-zero night air to attend the benefi...

Everything was all set at the White House in Washington on Jan. 24, 1940 to make a picture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepting a 300-pound b...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown addressing the White House Conference on Children in Washington, on Jan. 19, 1940. The president advised th...

With great good humor, President Roosevelt laughed and jested with Vice President Garner (left) at the $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner on Jan. 8, 1940...

Franklin D. Roosevelt with Vice President John Garner on Jan. 8, 1940 at Jackson Day dinner in Washington. (AP Photo)

Repeating his Jackson Day diner gesture of 1938, Vice-President John Nance Garner (left) affectionately patted the head of President Franklin D. Roose...

Vice President John Nance Garner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Postmaster James Farley at Jackson Day dinner on Jan. 8, 1940 in Washington....

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking at the Jackson day dinner on Jan. 8, 1940 at Washington. The other men in photo are unidentified. (AP Photo...

President Franklin D.Roosevelt addressing Congress on annual message on Jan. 3, 1940 in Washington. Behind him, Speaker William Bankhead (D-Ala, lef...

W. Averill Harriman (center) is shown with President Franklin D.Roosevelt and C. R. Gray, President of the Union Pacific Railroad as Roosevelt inspec...

President Franklin Roosevelt is shown above at Christmas-tree lighting ceremony Dec. 24, 1939 in Washington when he thanked god

Harry Burdette Smith University of California senior, was picked to be at one of the Guard Positions on the 1939 Associated Press Mythical All-America...

Harry Burdette Smith University of California senior, was picked to be at one of the Guard Positions on the 1939 Associated Press Mythical All-America...

German officials uncovered this contraption which, if the safe's door had opened properly, would have caused a terrific explosion, in the administrati...

Col. Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's

Marylyn Stuart, Hollywood show girl, is shown demonstrating how Earl Carroll???s New system of measuring beauty, on Nov. 6, 1939, under which distance...

German prisoners of war, under armed guard, are marched off to play a game of football in their prison camp. somewhere in England, on Nov. 5, 1939. Th...

German prisoners of war toss a coin before the start of a game of football in their camp, somewhere in England, on Nov. 5, 1939. (AP Photo)

German prisoners of war play a game of football in their camp, somewhere in England, on Nov. 5, 1939. (AP Photo)

A nurse lights a cigarette for a sergeant with a damaged foot as he sits in his wheeled chair in a hospital, somewhere in England, on Nov. 4, 1939. Th...

German prisoners of war fill sandbags in their camp, somewhere in England, on Nov. 4, 1939. (AP Photo)

German nationals from Estonia and Latvia arrive at Danzig harbor aboard the liner Der Deutsche, October 22, 1939. They count as those German national...

Factories in the city of Warsaw which were bombarded from the air and by German artillery during the siege of the Polish capital are shown in this air...