AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

British racing driver John Cobb broke the lap speed record at Brooklands Race Track, Weybridge, on Aug. 6, 1934, during the Brooklands Championship ra...

Colonel Oskar Von Hindenburg, saluting, son of President Paul Von Hindenburg, arrives at the Kroll Opera House, Berlin, on Aug. 6, 1934, for the funer...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he made his first national trip since his territorial inspection tour, from Two-Medicine Chalet as Glacier National...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt were inducted into the Black Feet tribe near Two-Medicine chalet, Glacier National Park, Mo...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets Chief Half Moon at Coulee Dam, state of Washington on August 5, 1934 when the chief executive made an address a...

Peal Van Horn of Seattle, Washington, presents at ten-gallon hat to President Franklin Roosevelt at Ephrata, Washington on August 5, 1934, enroute to...

President Franklin D.Roosevelt, en route to the east from the Grand Coulee Dam Site, good-naturedly recalls that when he was through Spokane 1932, one...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, intensely interested in Hydro-electric development of the Columbia River, as he discussed blue-prints of the $31,000,...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at extreme left, is shown in the presidential car shortly after landing in Portland, Oregon on August 3, 1934 after a...

The chief executive is shown wearing a paper hat at the Harvard Alumni Reunion at Honolulu on August 3, 1934, during his vacation trip to Hawaii. With...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt waving a greeting to the thousands who welcomed him at Portland, Oregon, August 3, 1934. On his return from his Epoc...

President Franklin Roosevelt, wearing a carnation leu about his shoulders, sees Kilauea volcano on the Island of Hawaii ON August 3, 1934 and listens...

Halting the procession of the presidential party, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, stopped for a few moments on the outskirts of Portland, Ore., on Au...

Outstanding women swimmers of the United States shown in Detroit., Mich., on July 29, 1934 after taking part in the national A.A.U. evens. Left to rig...

Bernt Balchen, pilot, and Harold Gatty, navigator for the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic expedition, when they left Los Angeles for New Zealand on July 2...

Melvin H. Purvis, the Federal Investigator who directed the capture and slaying of John Dillinger, left, as he appeared at the Justice Department in W...

Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian ambassador to Washington (left), secretary of state Cordell Hull, (center) and R. Walton Moore, assistant secretary of...

President Franklin Roosevelt in the Canal Zone a short time before he started out on a tour of the important section with Secretary of War on July 17...

Radiating health, President Franklin Roosevelt is shown during his visit in Panama on July 17, 1934 as he shook hands with four-year-old Emily McGahey...

Following in the footsteps of his famous explore-father, Edward Shackelton, 20, son of the late sir Ernest Shackelton, sailed on July 17, 1934 from Lo...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, second from right, and the head of the Panama government at the reception in honor of the U.S. president, during the...

Leaning on the arm of his son, Franklin Jr., President Franklin D. Roosevelt acknowledges the greetings of well-wishers in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands,...

One of President Roosevelt's last acts before heading for Honolulu was to select a commission to form an integrated aviation program for the United St...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt lifts his hat in acknowledgement of the cheers of the people of Cape Haitien, Haiti, who gathered to greet him on his...

Governor Blanton D. Winship of Puerto Rico, left, as he welcomed President Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, to Puerto Rico, July 6, 1934, upon Roosevelt...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown at the reception in the governor's palace in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 6, 1934, upon his arrival there on h...

Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott, George Medalie, and Clarence Darrow, shown left to right, at the first meeting of the American Inquiry Commission, unofficia...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown saying goodbye to Adam Standley, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet, just before the chief executive...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown saying goodbye to Adam Standley, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet, just before the chief executive...

When the match between John Herbert Crawford of Australia and Sidney .B. Wood, left, of the United States in the interzone final of the Davis Cup m...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, is shown aboard the destroyer Gilmer at Annapolis, Md., accompanied by his two sons, John and Franklin, Jr., a...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown as he gave the fifth of his

The Contessa Edda Ciano, left, daughter of Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, is shown walking with Donna Antoinetta Grandi, wife of the Italian Amba...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., June 20, 1934 when he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. From le...

Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, left, congratulates Prof. Rexford G. Tugwell in Washington, June 20, 1934, upon the confirmation of his app...

The two army balloonists who will occupy the gondola of the giant balloon that will soar into the stratosphere from Rapid City, S.D., are shown with G...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is shown just after he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., June 20...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and aides are shown on the rear platform of the presidential train, just before leaving Washington, June 19, 1934 for...

Holding pens which President Franklin D. Roosevelt used to sign the $522,000,000 Hayden-Cartwright road bill, June 18, 1934 the men who pushed the mea...

Newton D. Baker, former United States Secretary of War, as he appeared in cap and gown at the annual commencement at Brown University, Providence, R.I...

Governor Albert Ritchie receives a brick as a symbol of the transfer of the gates from the Society of Ark and Dove to the old Trinity Church, in St. M...

Action during the Carnera-Baer fight. Baer won on a technical knockout at Madison Square Garden, June 14, 1934 in New York. (AP Photo)

Baron Maurice de Rothschild is shown talking with Sen. Joe Robinson, left, in Washington, June 13, 1934. (AP Photo)

Olin Dutra, wearing cap at left, his caddy, and Lawson Little, right, tramp over the Merion Course at Ardmore, Pa., June 9, 1934 after Dutra, in a spe...

The new amateur sensation from Omaha, Neb., Rodney Bliss, Jr., putts during the second round of the National Open Golf championship at the Merion Cric...

From left to right: Don Pedro Rivero, secretary of the Venezuelan legation; Don Luis Churion, charge d'affaires of the legation; Hiram Bingham, forme...

George F. Getz, left, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, and Ogden F. Mills of New York, Secretary of the Treasury in the Hoover administ...

Bearing with him the coveted trophy that goes with the British amateur golf title, W. Lawson Little, left, Stanford University student who triumphed i...

Socialists from all parts of the United States, and other countries, attended the National Convention of the Socialist Party of America in Detroit, Mi...

Admiral David F. Sellers, left, commander of the United States fleet, and Grover Whalen, chairman of the Mayor's Naval Committee, chat at the dinner g...