(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Practice with Mrs. Martens for Sunday  – letter from Mrs. Ruiz – Written the 23rd and they haven’t received my package yet!  Am afraid they won’t !    Letter from Ty-Ty saying Catherine Smith says she is going to marry Carsey!  Seems he is indebted to her for room and  job!  That’s a lot of gratitude to pay!  If she want’s him at that price OIE!!

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

The New Zealand general election concluded. The Labour Party led by Michael Joseph Savage won its first electoral victory in party history.

The uprising in Brazil was crushed.

The China Clipper arrived in Guam.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Felt quite silly after supper.   Alyce Claire sent a telegram to Royal and we decided, on the spur of the moment, to go to the show.  Sat in the balcony to see Grace Moore in “Love Me Forever”  Good performance by everyone.   A.C. doped me on lemon juice and packed me in bed as precaution against a cold.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

This is the Manhattan skyline.

Polish miners and steel workers began a three-day strike for shorter hours, higher wages and better working conditions.

The China Clipper landed at Wake Island

The Hoover Dam is near completion.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

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Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Washington surgeons began x-raying 10, 000 people as part of a campaign to reduce the number of deaths from tuberculosis.

Manuel L. Quezon is on the cover of Time Magazine

Japan proclaimed the puppet state of East Hebei Autonomous Council in northern China.

After 11 years in exile, the newly-divorced George II returned to Greek soil as King of the Hellenes at Corfu from London.

Brazil declared a state of siege to fight a leftist uprising in the country’s north.

The Mayor of Berlin,  Heinrich Sahm was expelled from the Nazi Party because his family was said to have bought from Jewish shops.

German Olympic officials said that fencer Helene Mayer, despite being half-Jewish, would be allowed to compete for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Nazi Germany forbade Jewish artists from working under pseudonyms

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