Daily Archives: December 2, 2015

Monday December 2, 1935

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

Letter from Dit forwarded from Van Horn saying she isn’t sure she and Harold can join us Christmas!  Surely hope they manage.  Graded Mental Tests for 2 hours in the evening.  Saw “Last Days of Pompeii” Only the setting and eruption of Vesuvius is the same as the book.

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

Captain of the China Clipper,  Edwin C. Musick is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.

The British cabinet decided to support a motion at the League of Nations that sanctions against Italy be expanded to include an oil embargo.

French Fascist Marcel Bucard and 110 supporters were arrested in Strasbourg

Animator Marc Davis began work with Walt Disney.

Chicago Daily Tribune December 2, 1935
Chicago Daily Tribune December 2, 1935

Sunday December 1, 1935

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

Played morning and evening.  Saw Pauline Rumberg.  Sam left early this A.M.  (about 6:45)

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

 

Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan signed a non-aggression pact.

Reichminister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl decreed that all pastors must submit pastoral letters to the government for approval.

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Film Director Woody Allen was born.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Sunday Tribune December 1, 1935
Chicago Sunday Tribune December 1, 1935

Saturday November 30, 1935

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

Slept late again but was up by 10!  Cleaned my room – washed, shopped, practiced for tomorrow and had my hair fixed.  Alyce Claire’s friend, Mrs. De Ette Bartlett with her boy Charles were here and ate lunch with us.

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

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker.

To mark the 17th anniversary of the founding of Yugoslavia, King Peter II declared an amnesty for 1,200 political prisoners.

Army defeated Navy 28-6 at the Army–Navy Game at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Chicago Daily Tribune Nov 30, 1935