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The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide if the constitution allows the government to monitor private wire transfers
President F.D. Roosevelt tours the tornado damage at Gainesville, Ga. See his remarks here.
Sylvia Sidney and Bennett Cerf were divorced in Los Angeles court
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Band concert at night was good! jerome Zeiller and Robl (Somebody) played solos on sax and baritone respectively – Very Good! Sat by Charlotte St. J. and Mrs. Garrett on one side and Mrs. Hendricks and Esther on the other. Lee played accompaniments for the solos.
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Get your hotdogs! At the stand on West St, Manhattan, NY.
France countered Germany’s peace proposal with its own plan, which included the creation of an international army working through the League of Nations.
The Soviet Union and Mongolia signed a treaty of mutual assistance to counter Japan’s growing power in the Far East.
Today’s view of New York’s Radio Row
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Music festivalers arrive from everywhere! Saw Capt. Starr at Grady’s and he talked to me about Mexico – Got me all excited again! Sent Dit a package – Bought a blanket to make for her
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For the first time ever, Spanish parliament voted President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora out of office by a vote of 238 to 5 after the Socialists brought a motion against him claiming he had acted illegally in dissolving the last parliament.
A Trans Continental and Western Air (TWA) passenger plane crashed during a fog in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, killing 13 of 15 aboard
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Jonathon’s birthday. Sent him some De Pamu magazine’s I had saved up for him.
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The second day of deadly tornadoes in the Southeastern U.S. Gainesville, Ga. is hit hard.
In South Africa, the Representation of Natives Act was passed which further reduced the rights of black citizens.
Horton Smith won the third Masters Tournament.
Milwaukee Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
My. S.S. class decided on a sunrise breakfast next Sunday Morning. Went to M.E. to a good service except that Rev. Hempstead read his sermon! Heard a Harin Simmons quartet that was exceptional. At 3:30 hear Miss Garrett’s Sextet with Rev. Hempstead in Miss G’s composition “Servant, Master and Lord” It was beautiful – Miss Garrett accompanied on the organ. Started embroidering a blanket for Dit. At Grady’s, Capt. Starr talked to me about Mexico – got me all excited to go again! Heard the Hardin-Simmons chorus at the Baptist Church and enjoyed it. It has been a very enjoyable day on the whole! Lots of wind at noon and a few drops of rain. Not enough to show but tonight it has turned much colder.
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At least 12 deadly tornadoes struck the Southeastern United States, it became known as the Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak.
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Wrote Mrs. Berkness and Jaime – Played tennis about 1/2 hour but the wind had too much sand in it! Visited with Palmers awhile
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Eleanor Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.
Gangster Lucky Luciano is arrested in Hot Springs Arkansas. Shortly afterwards, New York City’s “Racket Buster”, Thomas E. Dewey had him extradited back to Manhattan.
A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play.
The Big Blow Out is released. Porky Pig helps people in the streets in order to get cash quick to buy an ice-cream soda. Meanwhile a mad bomber is terrorizing the city.
On orders from the German Labour Front, industrial workers who did not vote in the March 29 elections were fired from their jobs as “slackers”.
Cambridge won the 88th Boat Race.
The airship LZ 129 Hindenburg completed its first transatlantic flight, arriving in Rio de Janeiro. From April 6 to 10 it flew back to Germany
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Junior Play matinee and night – We dismissed at 2:30 for it. Went to town and then played some tennis though the wind was blowing. A Mr. Larcum strolled over and refereed for us. It turns out that he lives next door to Mrs. Martens. The play was “Seventeen” I know the story and there were 4 acts as it dragged a little before it was over! We (Alyce Claire) took Mrs. Markham. Later AC and I went to the Busy Bee for soup. Harriet has put an idea for roller skates in my head! Should like to brush up on my French, too! Heard some Institute Officers making fair stabs at it last night at Grady’s – Reminded me of Jaime!
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Convicted for the “Crime of the Century. Richard Bruno Hauptmann is executed by electrocution for the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
Germany sent Britain a point-blank refusal to promise not to fortify the Rhineland.
The British government indicated that it would again apply pressure to impose an oil embargo against Italy unless it ceased its hostilities in Ethiopia, due to the strength of the evidence Britain now had that the Italians were using poison gas.
Nazi Germany banned Jews from working as veterinarians.
The shortest pro boxing match in history took place in New Haven, Connecticut when Al Carr knocked out Lew Massey in 10 seconds. This record was equalled in 1946 but not broken until 1984
Popeye goes skiing.
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Have come to the conculsion that . Pope was just trying to scare me. He was peeved at me just like a schoolboy! Letter from Dit today saying they met Dad and Jaime in El Paso. I think last week. Also a letter from Mrs. Berkness, 4103 Rhodes Circle, Phoenix, in which she gives me two pieces of advice Never to marry or to marry someone who cares more than I! She is tiring of pure housekeeping when the nickels are having to be squeezed. I do hope it turns out all right for her – She deserves it surely
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A second day of tornadoes in Cordele, Georgia 23 people died and 289 buildings were destroyed.
Germany suspended the export of coal to Italy as a goodwill gesture to Britain.
Saudi Arabia and Iraq signed a treaty of non-aggression and Arab brotherhood.
Austria and Czechoslovakia signed a trade agreement
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
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At least 44 people die as three waves of tornadic activity hit the Southeastern United States in a 14 hour time-frame. It became known as the Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak.
Germany offered a 19-point peace proposal to the other Locarno signatories. None of the points included Germany withdrawing any troops from the Rhineland.
Britain assured France and Belgium of British support in the event of war with Germany.
The state of Odisha in India forms its own separate province. After losing its complete political identity in 1568 following the defeat and demise of the last Hindu king Mukunda Dev, efforts resulted into the formation of a politically separate state under British rule on linguistic basis.
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