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THE DRAMATIC STORY OF 1934 IN PICTURES
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THE RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION, with President Roosevelt at the helm, still emlllng and carefree, weathered a year of turmoil li
which the San Francisco and other widespread strikes, the mldwestern drought, and the on y.iar Democrats landslide played an Important
part In the news. The exit of General Hugh Johnson from the scene In the revamping of the HRA and the rising star of Donald Rlehberg
also captured the headlines. (Associated Press Photos)
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A CHAIN OF TRAGIC events cast threatening war clouds over Europe In a year during which foreign events figured more In the newa
A chain F '."i:-- ","!. .u. Si.-u Th. ..HH.nlnn death of Klna Albert of Belalum and the ascension of his son.
LfhTJSan,W:biioi purge"; assassination .f Premier Dollfu. of Austria and King Al.x.nd.r of YMflo,l.vla studded.
the year with dramatic events, (Associated Press Photoai
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TWO SOCIAL EVENTS, both weddings, found their way Into the big
news of 1934. The wedding of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina of
Greece assumed the proportions of a world-heralded romance. The
marriage of John Jacob Astor to Ellen Tuck French was the highlight
of the Newport season, (Associated Press Photos)
PROBABLY NO OTHER single story claimed the place In the public eye that was given to the arrest
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, itinerant German carpenter, on charges of the murder of Charlee Llnd
bergh, Jr., a tragedy that Inspired the sympathies of the entire world. The finding of the Lindbergh ran
som money and the chain of evidence disclosed leading up to Hauptmann'a trial captured an unceasing
hold upon the headlines. (Associated Press Photoai
THE KIDNAPING of Mrs. Berry
Stoll of Louisville, Ky., and the man
hunt instigated by federal author
ities for her abduetor, Thomas Rob
Inson, Jr covered the front pages
of the nation's newspapers, as did
the kidnaping of Juna Robles. (As
sociated Press Photos)
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OF UNIVERSAL APPEAL was the birth of five girl babies to an
obscure couple, the Dlonnes, In the Ontario north woods. The quintuplet
became the most widely dlscusssd babies in the world and tho mild
mannered, gray-haired country doctor who kept them alive, Dr. Allan
Roy Dafoe, shared the spotlight with them. (Associated Presa Photos)
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"THE KILLING OF PUBLIC ENEMIES '-eeupled the. spotlight throughout 1934 as the federal law enforcement agents, with J. Edgsr
Hoover (right), head of th bureau of Investigation of the depsrtment of justice, and Melvln Purvlt (left), his Chicago chief, playing the
leading roles, stagfd the greatest drive f.n crime In modern American history. The yter saw John Dilifng;r, Bad Man No. 1, ft. retched out
on a morg-.ie ainb (m shjwn a-iovel wi'h "P.eitv Piy" Floyd, George "Baby Face" Nelson and a host of ojher notorious gu'.laws brought
down by government guns. (Associated Press PhotosJ. .
FIRE AND A TREACHEROUS SEA combined forces to enact prlneloal rotas In one of the greatest disasters In history, the burning of thi
6-S. Morro Castle off the cess of New Jersey, with a death toll of approximately 124 persons. Ths above photo of the burning vessel serves
to recsll ths stark tragedy, ths flames of which have not entirely died down as Investigators seek to determine the responslblity for the
blsis. Fire struck late In the year at Lansing, M!ch., snuffing out soma 30 lives aa a hotel filled with oeoplt was burned to ths ground.
(Associated Prsis Photos)