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Taking a bow at the amateur boxing tournament in New York on Nov. 24, 1936 are these well known figures of the ring. Left to right: Jimmy Braddock, he...

Right hands held aloft, youthful Nazi military conscripts pledge their unswerving allegiance to Adolph Hitler before being actively admitted to servic...

Father Charles E. Coughlin broadcasts in Royal Oak, Michigan, Oct. 27, 1936. (AP Photo)

Women volunteers in the air defense league, shown lined up in Berlin, Oct. 5, 1936, before training in various methods of defense against possible gas...

Some of the 100,000 Nazi storm troopers gathered at Luitpold arena to listen to a speech by Third Reich Fuehrer Adolf Hitler on

Mrs. Richard Tauber - Diana Napier, Richard Tauber and German actress Marlene Dietrich, at the film studios at Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, durin...

Bricks and Mortar flew in every direction when a German two-man tank Broke through this solid wall at full speed during exercises at the Wuensdorf mil...

Permanent Chairman of the Democratic National Convention, Joe Robinson, U.S. senator from Arkansas, as he rapped for order at the session of the Democ...

U.S. senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, permanent chairman of the Democratic National Convention as he addressed delegates on Wednesday, June 24, 1936...

James Braddock and Max Schmeling, August 18, 1936. (AP Photo)

President Franklin Roosevelt, accompanied by Governor J.M. Futrell (center) and Senator Joe T. Robinson, is shown here leaving his special train to m...

This is a copy of a letter sent to Senator Moore of New Jersey by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in which the famed flier lauded the head of New Jersey sta...

For the first time since the completion of the vast buildings of the Reichs Aviation Ministry sentries of the newly created German airforce mounted gu...

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler takes the salute as troops march past him during a parade in Berlin, on April 20, 1936, to celebrate his birthday. (AP...

This is the official ballot for the Reichstag plebiscite, shown March 29, 1936. The voter endorses it by marking a cross into the circle in the right-...

Each voter who cast a ballot received an election badge that reads

German soldiers on parade near Aachen, Germany, March 24, 1936, the youth and fine physical condition of the Nazi army along the Western Front. (AP Ph...

Roaring cheers greeted German troops as Nazi soldiers, reoccupying the Rhineland, marched past the famous cathedral, March 8, 1936 in Cologne. (AP Pho...

Here?s one of the long-range guns which German artillery has set up in the re-militarized Rhineland, March 17, 1936. Grimly, it points toward France....

Nazi storm troopers are shown marching triumphantly into Dusseldorf in Germany, March 8, 1936 as reoccupation of the Rhineland is completed. The skage...

Nazi storm troopers are shown marching triumphantly into Duesseldorf, March 8, 1936 as reoccupation of the Rhineland is completed. The Skagerak Bridge...

Jesse Livermore, Jr. assertedly shot by his mother Mrs. Dorothea Longcope, at their Montecito home last Thanksgiving night, is shown with his mother o...

Stall holders and porters wait for early morning customers in Smithfield Market, London, on Feb. 12, 1936. (AP Photo)

Appropriately hedge in by Christmas greens, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown speaking in Lafayette Park during the annual community Yule tree...

After he had addressed convention of American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago, Dec. 9, 1935, President Roosevelt was luncheon guest of Chicago Democ...

Jesse Livermore, Wall St. operator is seen in Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 1935 as he prepared to start on the last lap by car to Santa Barbara, to his son's...

Farmers inspect cattle and sheep, behind memorial, and poultry, right, at the weekly market in Devizes, Wiltshire, on Nov. 30, 1935. (AP Photo)

President Franklin Roosevelt was just one of the nation?s millions of Turkey Carvers as he presided at the annual Thanksgiving dinner of the Warm Spri...

At the wheel of his automobile, President Franklin Roosevelt waves ?so long? as he prepares to leave the little White House for a drive through Georgi...

The first transport of German conscripts since the introduction of the universal military service leaves Berlin, Germany, Oct. 29, 1935. The conscript...

Long rows of shiny tanks, the death dealers that precede the infantry in any war, were on parade in Hameln, Oct. 6, 1935 as the army joined in the Nat...

Approximately 60,000 persons heard President Franklin Roosevelt on Oct. 2, 1935 in San Diego as he spoke on American policies regarding foreign affair...

Before a crowd of 70,000 persons, President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on Oct. 1, 1935 in Los Angeles, in his auto. He travelled in a special tr...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, New York on Sept. 29, 1935. They were celebrating th...

The best glider-flighers of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Jugoslavia have met on the Jungfraujoch, the pass near the Mountain Jungfrau (Virgin) i...

One of the wonders of China are the famous Buddhist caves and shrines near Tatung-Fu, China, shown June 12, 1935. The caves date back 1,500 years. Eno...

Standing at the base of battle monument, over-looking the Hudson River, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen on June 12, 1935 at West Point, New Yo...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wears miner?s hat as she rides mine car, at left Adolph Pacifico local President United Mine Workers during 1935 visit as first...

President Franklin Roosevelt as he delivered his bonus bill veto message on May 21, 1935 before a joint session of Congress. Vice President John Gar...

Here is the gentleman who will try to wrest the heavyweight crown from the head of Max Baer at the long Island Garden bowl on June 13, Jimmy Braddock,...

Despite doctor's orders to the contrary, Jackie Coogan, young film actor, left his bed to attend the funeral of his father who was killed with three o...

Max Baer, left, the current heavyweight champion and Buddy, his youngster brother who aspires to step into Max?s shoes some day, are shown strolling,...

Franklin Roosevelt was in a happy mood when he returns from Florida on April 8, 1935 from 12 day fishing trip. He is shown here, left, with Governor D...

This is part of a line of 1,000 job hunters outside Newark City Hall applying for a chance to wield pick and shovel, 10 hours a day, for $4, excavatin...

A long line of men forms at the Newark City Hall as they apply for a chance to wield a pick and shovel for 10 hours a day for $4, excavating for the c...

John Paul Chase, center, companion of the slain

A farmer inspects his tractor and wheat drill, almost submerged in dust near Garden City, Kansas in March 1935. He planned to wait before digging out....

Cut off from the main body of the mob that swept through the streets of Harlem, in the heart of New York?s Negro belt on March 20, 1935 several suspec...

A recent night air view of Berlin, March 19, 1935, emphasizing the target of lights which are being blotted out in a general air-rail-drill in which a...

In open defiance to the Versailles Treaty, Germany has taken steps to build up her military defenses. Here is a view of exercises held, March 19, 1935...