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British actor, composer and playwright Noel Coward arrives at Waterloo train station in London, England, May 6, 1937. (AP Photo)

Italian Premier-dictator Benito Mussolini, center on horseback, addresses some of the troops from Italian Africa who are encamped on the outskirts of...

A U.S. federal agent uses an axe to destroy the copper equipment used in this large illegal liquor plant during a raid near Griffin, Ga., on May 5, 19...

U.S. Federal agents raid an illegal liquor plant near Griffin, Ga., where beer and wine are legal, on May 5, 1937. This plant in Lamar County is wort...

U.S. federal agents raid an illegal liquor plant near Griffin, Ga., where only beer and wine are legal, on May 5, 1937. One revenuer stirs the 1500-g...

Playwrights George S. Kaufman, left, and Moss Hart collaborate at the typewriter in Beverly Hills, Ca., May 5, 1937. Kaufman and Hart won the 1937 Pu...

This general view shows people and street traffic along 14th Street in New York City, May 1937. (AP Photo)

Two men inspect the twisted metal framework of the crashed dirigible Hindenburg at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J., May 1937. (AP Photo...

This is an interior view of the new 8th Avenue subway car in New York City, May 1937. (AP Photo)

Clara Bow, former movie star, poses with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean at the ball game against the Cincinnati Reds in St. Louis, Mo., April...

Clem Sohn is shown before entering the airplane for his exhibition parachute jump in Paris, France, April 25, 1937. The American

Bill Terry, New York Giants manager, and Burleigh Grimes, Brooklyn Dodgers manager, shake hands before their teams play ball at Ebbets Field in Brookl...

Queen Nazli of Egypt, is followed by her son King Farouk, up the gangway of the steamer ' Cote D'Azur', in Calais, France, April 19, 1937. King Farouk...

King Farouk of Egypt is accompanied by his four sisters, from left, Princesses Faika, Faithia, Fawzia and Faiza, in Calais, France, aboard the French...

American filmmaker Frank Capra and his wife, Lucille, arrive at Southampton, England, on the Normandie this morning, April 19, 1937. Capra's

Two militiamen patrol one of the streets wrecked during the Nationalists artillery bombardment in Madrid, Spain, April 11, 1937. The streets are litt...

Japanese pilot Masaaki Iinuma, left, and Kenji Tsukagoshi, navigator and engineer, are presented with flower garlands and bouquets and greeted by a cr...

Japanese pilot Masaaki Iinuma, left, and Kenji Tsukagoshi, radio operator and engineer, presented with flower garlands and bouquets, are greeted by a...

Robert Wadlow, 18, of Alton, Ill., waits at a pedestrian traffic light as he is surrounded by a crowd in New York City, April 7, 1937. Robert is stan...

Robert Wadlow, 10, right, of Alton, Ill., poses with an 11-year-old boy of average height in 1929. Wadlow, who has an over-active pituitary gland tha...

Robert Wadlow, 18, of Alton, Ill., enters a turnstile at a New York City subway station on April 7, 1937. (AP Photo)

Robert Wadlow, 18, of Alton, Ill., poses with a flight attendant next to the airplane in which he arrived in New York City on April 5, 1937. (AP Phot...

Bob Feller, 18-year old pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, is shown in action in April 1937 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

The Arab chieftain Kerbix, right, presents the

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, navigator Frederick Noonan, standing behind her, and Capt. Harry Manning emerge from the Electra after it crashed on...

Dr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, consulting Paleontologist of the National Geological Survey of China, is shown at a symposium of Early Man at the Aca...

Amelia Earhart takes the $80,000 flying laboratory for a trial run over San Francisco Bay, Oakland, Ca., March 13, 1937, for her around-the-world flig...

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart waves from the Electra before taking off from Los Angeles, Ca., on March 10, 1937. Earhart is flying to Oakland, Ca....

Tents are set up in rows to house hundreds of refugees forced from their lowland homes by heavy floods at Walnut Corners, Ark., Feb. 3, 1937. It is t...

Chain-gang prisoners from the Shelby County penal farm toil on a levee in South Memphis, Tenn., as the city prepares to meet he crest of the Mississip...

Italy's Premier Benito Mussolini, stripped to the waist, rests between ski runs in Terminillo, Italy, Feb. 1, 1937. (AP Photo)

Abandoned chickens huddle on a barn rooftop as water rises in the Mississippi Valley in New Madrid, Mo., Jan. 30, 1937. The floods have taken a heavy...

A trainload of sandbags is transported to line the Mississippi mainline levees to defend against rising waters of the Mississippi River in the flood a...

Italy's Premier Benito Mussolini, left, says goodbye to Nazi Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering who is leaving for Berlin after a visit with Il Duce in Rome...

Army engineers build a pontoon sidewalk along Baxter Avenue to evacuate refugees during the flooding in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 27, 1937. The floating...

This aerial view shows flooded streets covering both residential and industrial areas in Paducah, Ky., on Jan. 27, 1937. (AP Photo)

Refugees including women, children and the sick are loaded aboard a river boat as they evacuate the flooded city of Cairo, Ill., Jan. 27, 1937. The b...

This aerial view shows the wild rush of Mississippi River flood water through the gap dynamited by army engineers in levee of Birds Point, a new flood...

Red Cross workers are shown handing out clothing in one of the many emergency stations set up in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1937. (AP Photo)

Waterfront residences and warehouses are washed off for the third time this week from flood water on Pittsburgh's north side, Pa., Jan. 26, 1937. (AP...

Norfolk and eastern railroad yards are inundated by flood waters in Portsmouth, Ohio, on Jan. 23, 1937. One train has managed to keep running daily t...

This 1937 aerial view shows the biggest of highway crossover points in the New York City area. The transportation highway is part of the Long Island...

Greta Garbo is shown in Hollywood, Ca., in 1937. (AP Photo)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is shown with her husband, King George VI, and their two daughters, Princess Elizabeth, center, and Princess Margaret, in 19...

The Wye Oak, the largest tree in Maryland, is shown in 1937 where it stands on the Kinnaman farm near Wye Mills, Md. The Wye Oak is a living symbol of...

The Duke of Windsor, the former King of England Edward VIII, poses for the first time since his abdication of the British throne at Enzesfeld, Austria...

This aerial view of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shows the toll plaza on the Oakland side in the immediate foreground with the bridge stretchi...

Two priests stand outside a row of huts that house the Abyssinian monks on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on Dec...

Arthur M. Anderson, right, of J.P. Morgan and Company, appears as a witness before the U.S. Senate Committee investigating railroad financing in Washi...

Supporters of King Edward stage a large demonstration parade through London, England, Dec. 10, 1936. Edward VIII was unsuccessful in his fight to ret...