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With Postmaster General and Democratic National Committee chairman James A. Farley by his side, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ate a hearty dinner at...

??sMay a double portion of old hickory???s spirit be upon us tonight.??? Standing beneath a huge painting of General Jackson, President Franklin D. Ro...

Thomas W. Lamont (left), Morgan Partner; J. Pierpont Morgan, and Frank A. Vanderlip, Prominent Banker (at right) in Washington on Jan. 7, 1936 as they...

George Whitney (left) and Thomas W. Lamont, Senior Partners of J.P. Morgan who arrived on Jan. 6, 1936 in Washington to tell a senate investigating co...

Rep. Bertrand Snell (left), N.Y. Republican and Minority leader in the House of Representatives, is shown with Senator Charles McNary (R-Ore), Minorit...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and members of his family near the Christmas tree in Washington, Dec. 25, 1935. At far right, James Roosevelt assist...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and members of his family leave services at Foundry Methodist Church in Washington, Dec. 25, 1935. From left to right...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, holds his granddaughter Sara Roosevelt, 4, as they leave the community Christmas tree celebration in Washington, Dec....

Bruno Richard Hauptmann???s letter to Governor Harold Hoffman in which the prisoner facing the chair for the murder of the Lindbergh baby offered to t...

You are looking at the ??sgirl with the most beautiful figure in America.??? This title was given pretty Mardee Hoff when she was selected from 2600 m...

George Trautman, President of the Columbus Red Birds, is shown receiving telephone congratulations on Dec. 11, 1935 in Chicago after his unanimous ele...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses delegates from the Middle West attending the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago, D...

Ellis Parker, left, noted Burlington County detective was ??sunder the definite impression that Bruno Richard Hauptmann iis not the man??? responsible...

Ellis Parker, noted Burlington County detective today was ??sunder the definite impression that Bruno Richard Hauptmann is not the man??? responsible...

Reviewing his administration in comparison with ??sThose fools' paradise years before the crash came,??? President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown as h...

Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Herbert Hoover (l to r, seated) were inducted into honorary membership of the Daughters of Ohio in New York along with...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are shown on the rear of their train as they returned to the capital in Washington on Nov....

In this recent photo, Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and their son, Mannfried, now almost 2 years old, are seen in their home,...

Samuel Foley, left, district attorney of Bronx County, and James M. Fawcett, attorney for Hauptmann as they appeared before judge Lester Patterson, Se...

Anita Lutzenberg at the Bronx County courthouse in New York, Sept. 27, 1934, where questioned by Samuel Foley during the Hauptmann trial. (AP Photo)

Shirley Temple, like any other little girl of 6 years, started to school and proved to be bright enough to win a gold star for her first days performa...

German Prime Minister Hermann Goering addressing a large meeting on the eastern frontier of East Prussia on Sept. 8, 1935. (AP Photo)

Former heavyweight boxing champ Max Baer gets his face wiped by his manager Ancil Hoffman in Speculator, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1935. He is training for his b...

A set of stamps issued by the duchy of Luxemburg in Collaboration with the international committee to secure employment for refugee professional worke...

Workmen remove debris of the great earthquake in Quetta, India, May, 1935. All structures on both sides of roads and lanes collapsed. (AP Photo)

President Roosevelt is shown as he left the train, June 8, 1935 at Highlands, N.Y., to motor across the Hudson River to his Hyde Park home for a brief...

Charged with the job of establishing fair trade practices, now that NRA has been outlawed, the federal trade commission, May 29, 1935 meeting of the b...

The President explains his bonus veto this general view of the joint session of congress, May 22, 1935 was taken as President Roosevelt broke all pres...

Legislative history was made in Washington, as this photo was taken when President Roosevelt returned the patman bonus bill to the house of its origin...

Close-up of President Roosevelt as he personally delivered his veto message on the patman bonus bill at a joint session of congress on May 22, 1935 br...

President Roosevelt seems delighted, as he watches the warm greeting between two distinguished Virginians Secretary of Navy Swanson welcoming home rea...

President Roosevelt in the referee???s boat on the Severn River, Annapolis, Md.,, May 25, 1935 when a great Penn crew showed the way to Harvard, navy...

Dr. Balfour (left), President of the American College of Surgeons and a director of the Mayo Foundation, is shown with his associate, Dr. M.S. Henders...

These four Nobel Prize winners were photographed at a dinner in their honor in New York, April 9, 1935 when they were told by Dr. H.C. Urey, Chemist a...

That???s what President Roosevelt, at extreme left, might be doing as he board the U.S.S. destroyer Farragut at Jacksonville, Fla., on March 26, 1935...

Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, whose husband, Bruno, is in the death house at Trenton, N.J., under conviction as the kidnap-slayer of the Lindbergh baby, is sho...

Manuel Quezon (right), President of the Philippine Senate at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 1935 as he was greeted by President Fran...

Max Rauch, owner of the home in which Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby, lived, is shown March 3, 1935 inspecting a gara...

This is a facsimile of Bruno Richard Hauptmann???s note, dated on February 18, designating C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington, N.J., as chief New Jersey Co...

Manacled to a state trooper, left, and flanked on the right by Sheriff John H. Curtiss, Bruno Richard Hauptmann leaves Flemington, N.J., jail for stat...

Manacled to a state trooper on his left and flanked on the right by Sheriff John H. Curtiss, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is shown as he left Flemington, N...

A plea for a defense fund from ??sPeople who must believe in my innocence??? has been written by Bruno Richard Hauptmann in his cell, Feb. 15, 1935 in...

The death warrant, signed by Judge Thomas W. Trenchard in Flemington N.J., that will send Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the murder...

Here is the death warrant, signed by Judge Thomas W. Trenchard at Flemington, N.J., Feb. 15, 1935 that will send Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electr...

Condemned as the abductor and murderer of the Lindbergh baby and facing death in the electric chair, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is shown in his cell in F...

Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his hair neatly combed, and wearing a brand-new necktie, smiles in court in Flemington, New Jersey, Feb. 13, 1935, as Judge T...

Clerks are shown Carrying Hauptmann case ladder into Flemington, New Jersey courthouse, Saturday, Feb. 9, 1935 for first session of Hauptmann trial. S...

Fritz Kreisler taking a bow, Feb. 7, 1935 at Albert Hall, London, as sir London Ronald, conductor of the London philharmonic orchestra leads the appla...

Greta Henckel who will testify, Feb. 6, 1935 that Fisch was responsible for the murder of the Lindbergh boy and for his kidnapping. (AP Photo)

Princess Elizabeth is seen in the Duchess's box at the