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Sunday June 27, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

They or We moved Wednesday to 4104 Le Luz – All of a block! But the house is nicer and we are happy! Today is Harold’s birthday and Dit and I gave him a Readers Digest!  Dit has planned for a birthday Image resultdinner with John and Renie Linebaugh, Fred and Grace ——? Elizabeth and Joe Heinsel, them Jaime and me.  Jaime and I saw “Parnell” in the afternoon.  Left at midnight for San Antinio.

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Martin Niemöller

Martin Niemöller gave what would be his last sermon in Nazi Germany, stating, “No more are we ready to keep silent at man’s behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune June 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 27, 1937

Saturday June 26, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Image result for mary pickford weddingMary Pickford and Charles “Buddy” Rogers were married in a simple ceremony in Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

 

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 26, 1937

 

Friday June 25, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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British Prime Minister Neville ChamberlainNeville Chamberlain made his first major foreign policy speech in the House of Commons, in which he asked influential members of British society to exercise caution when talking about Germany’s policy toward Spain to avoid a larger European war. “I have read that in the high mountains there are sometimes conditions to be found when an incautious move or even a sudden loud exclamation may start an avalanche”, Chamberlain said. “That is just the condition in which we are finding ourselves to-day. I believe, although the snow may be perilously poised it has not yet begun to move, and if we can all exercise caution, patience and self-restraint we may yet be able to save the peace of Europe.”

Image result for june 25, 1937Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov on the Central Aerodrome

Augie Galan The First National League Player To Hit a Bomb From Both Sides of The Plate

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Adolf Hitler inaugurates the new Saxonian highway

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 25, 1937

Thursday June 24, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Paul Robeson made an important speech on the Spanish Civil War at the Royal Albert Hall in London during a benefit to raise funds for Basque refugee children. “There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers”, Robeson said. “The liberation of Spain from the oppression of fascist reactionaries is not a private matter of the Spaniards, but the common cause of all advanced and progressive humanity.”

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The 8th imperial Conference

The 8th Imperial Conference ended.

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Liechtenstein added a crown to its national flag so it would no longer be identical to the flag of Haiti.

Image result for june 24, 1937Tennis Franjo Kukuljevi in Wimbledon

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Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E Special, NR16020, being fueled at Batavia (now, Jakarta), Java, Dutch East Indie
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Chicago Daily Tribune June 24, 1937

Wednesday June 23, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Kriegsmarine insignia casco.svgHitler sent the strongest units of the Kriegsmarine toward Valencia for a “demonstration” after dropping out of the international neutral ship patrol for the second time, since Britain and France refused to allow Germany to secure satisfaction for an alleged Spanish submarine attack on the cruiser Leipzig. Spain warned that it would fight back if any power shelled a Republican cit

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 23, 1937

Tuesday June 22, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Went to El Paso, Pop, Ty-Ty and Mary Jo went on to Ruidoso.  I stayed at Dit’s – They plan to move!

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Joe Louis won boxing’s World Heavyweight Championship with an eighth-round knockout of James J. Braddock at Comiskey Park in Chicago

 

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Camille Chautemps

Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time.

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An espionage tribunal was established in the Spanish Republic with the primary task of putting members of POUM on trial

 

 

 

 

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 22, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 22, 1937

Monday June 21, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Leon Blum

Léon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France when the Senate refused to give him special powers to deal with the country’s financial crisis.

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Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey ordered 4,500 National Guardsmen to Youngstown.

The Wimbledon Championships were televised for the first time, on BBC Television.

Dr Morris Fishbein is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The Cole Bros Circus arrives in Montreal

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Buffalo is flooding.

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 21, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 21, 1937

 

Sunday June 20, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Kids come today at 10 am Baby baptized. Jonathon has moved to ElTwo in a Crowd Poster Royale already! Saw “Two is a Crowd” with him and Mary Jo last night.  Letter from Mrs. Morris showing flood pictures

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Alexander Belyakov, Georgiy Baidukov and Valery Chkalov by their plane

A Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft flew over the North Pole and landed in Vancouver, Washington. The flight was made to test the prospects of trans-polar air travel.

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Racing driver Roy Eccles at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1937 in Le Mans, France

 

 

 

 

 

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Chicago Sunday Tribune June 20, 1937

Saturday June 19, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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The Battle of Bilbao ended with the Nationalist capture of the city.

The Huesca Offensive ended in Republican failure.

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The Women’s day massacre occurred in Youngstown, Ohio.Image result for little steel strike june 19, 1937

Pennsylvania Governor George Howard Earle III declared martial law in Johnstown

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Freeport Journal Standard Newspaper Archives. June 19, 1937

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 19, 1937

Friday June 18, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Ty-Ty’s birthday but we are all waiting until the kids come from El Paso over the week-end.  Had a letter from Carsey in which he says if I come back by Laredo he’ll meet me there and bring me home!  Can’t think of anything nicer!  Will I?!!

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Nationalists captured the Santo Domingo hills northeast of Bilbao after a week-long assault and surrounded the city completely.

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Achille Starace

Secretary of the National Fascist Party Achille Starace made it mandatory for all members of the party to subscribe to Mussolini’s newspaper, Il Popolo d’Italia.

Nearly 2000 Cigar workers in Detroit go on strike

 

 

 

 

 

Popeye goes to the Night Club.

Chicago Daily Tribune June 18, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 18, 1937