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(Original Caption) At Augusta Masters Invitation Tournament. Augusta, Georgia: Paul Runyan pictured driving from the fifth tee in the first day's play in the Masters Invitation Golf Tournament, which opened March 22nd, at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Bobby Jones, ending a four year absence from golf, was paired with Runyan in the opening match, for which he turned in a score of 76.
A farm about to be enveloped by a dust storm during the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Portrait of American bank robbers and partners Clyde Barrow (1909 - 1934) and Bonnie Parker (1911 -1934), popularly known as Bonnie and Clyde, circa 1933.
(Original Caption) John Dillinger, ex-convict and alleged leader of a bandit ring, is being held with his sweetheart, Mary Longneck, at Dayton, Ohio, for Indiana police in connection with the sensational break of ten convicts from the state penitentiary at Michigan City, Indiana. Miss Longneck is a sister of James Jenkins, a life termer, who was one of the men who shot his way out of the prison.
View dated 1930's of the Alcatraz island and penitentiary, in the San Francisco Bay. From the mid 1930's until the mid 1960's, Alcatraz ("the Rock") was America's premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation's most incorrigible inmates, including Al Capone. (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
Mao Zedong with Red army soldiers on the Long March, 1935. The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang arm. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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