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EVB2924755: Hugh Johnson with Monte Ferris Bourjaily, General Manager of the United Features Syndicate. After his dismissal by FDR as NRA Administrator, Johnson resumed his career as a magazine writer and signed up as political columnist with the United Features Syndicate. c. March 1935 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925210: H.V. Kaltenborn at the CBS microphone, c. 1938-1940 as Europe moved toward war. During the Munich Crisis, in Sept. 1938, he slept in the CBS studio and reported day and night from until the day after the signing of the Four Power Agreement on Sept. 29th. He played himself in two movies, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951). T / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925219: Jomo Kenyatta, future President of Kenya, in a monkey skin given him by Kikuyu (Gikuyu) tribesmen. Aug. 21, 1961. Kikuyu was the largest ethnic group in Kenya, but still represented less than 25% of the population. As leader of Kenya's KANU (Kenya African National Union) Kenyatta advocated, unified state with a strong central government over an ethnic-federal state favored by his opposition / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925291: Legendary movie director D. W. Griffith broadcasting, 'D. W. Griffith's Hollywood.' c. 1930. The NBC radio program was a review of his life and history of Hollywood. The master silent movie director of the 1910s and early 1920s, worked on few films after 1925. In 1936, he was given a special Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925143: Women attending the National Convention of the Woman Suffrage Association. Philadelphia, Nov. 21 -26, 1912. 1_Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President. 2_Mrs. William M. Ivins. 3_ Miss Lucy Anthony. 4_Donald Booker, Baltimore. 5_Katharine Hepburn, Hartford, Connecticut. 6_ Mary Ware Dennett, Treasurer. 7_Susan Fitzgerald, Boston. 8_Jesse Ashley, Secretary. Inset square_Jane Addams / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925581: Czech Capt. Vladimir S. Hurban was in the Russian Empires forces during World War 1. When Czechoslovakia became an independent nation in 1918, the Czechs resisted participating in the Russian Civil War. Considered traitors by the Russians, they marched through Siberia, ultimately leaving from the eastern port of Vladivostok. Vladimir Hurban was the son of the famous Slovak writer and nationalist leader, Svetozar Hurban Vajansky, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images