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Sunday September 20, 1936

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Image result for september 20, 1936Amelia Earhart sits on top of her Lockheed Electra plane with a group of Purdue University coeds in front

 

 

 

A dynamite blast in Havana, Cuba demolished a newspaper press and a Catholic church and killed 4 people. 20 Socialists were arrested by police that day. It was believed that the newspaper was targeted because it ran editorials supporting the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

Party activists handing out ballot papers for their parties outside a polling booth

The Swedish general election was held. The Swedish Social Democratic Party maintained its plurality in the Riksdag.

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Stylish outfits at Longchamp in Paris, France
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Chicago Bears at Green Bay
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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 20, 1936

 

Saturday September 19, 1936

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Lou Gehrig is presented with a scroll commemorating his consecutive game record by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia

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Nazi authorities ordered all German churches to eliminate the word “Hallelujah” from prayers because it was “Hebrew and alien

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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 19, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 19, 1936

Friday September 18, 1936

diary 2The 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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Many die on the Nile when a pleasure boat and a cargo ship collided.

Image result for september 18, 1936A tropical hurricane struck Cape Hatteras along the east coast of the United States, doing considerable damage.

USS Fanning (DD-385)The USS Fanning was launched.

 

Image result for september 18, 1936Speech at the Harvard Tercentenary by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

 

 

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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 18, 1936

Thursday September 17, 1936

diary 2The 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.

First letter from Mary Jo in Greencastle and she is properly thrilled!  So glad!

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News reporters and cameramen covering the Salinas lettuce workers’ strike have equipped themselves with gas masks after suffering the effects of tear gas the previous day.

 

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Juventud Comunista (JCI newspaper) poster.jpgThe first issue of the Barcelona newspaper Juventud Comunista (Communist Youth) was published

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Gerald Caldwell from Jensen, Utah, participated in the bronc riding competition at the 1936 Vernal Rodeo

Construction continues to remove bench seating in Yankee stadium.

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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 17, 1936

Wednesday September 16, 1936

diary 2The 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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A lettuce strike in Salinas, California leeds to fights when lettuce truck convoys were escorted through town from the fields to the shipping sheds

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The Nationalists captured Ronda

 

 

 

 

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The South Schenectady Fire Department was formed

 

 

 

 

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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 16, 1936

Tuesday September 15, 1936

diary 2The 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.

A.A.U.W. Meeting at Mess Feather’s.   Saw her woven linens – that is a wonderful hobby.  The meeting was my last I think. Nothing ever gets done.

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Samuel of Speen, from the Shetland Island off Scotland, finally met up with his new mistress, Shirley Temple, after a 3,000-mile trip by water and a 3,000-mile trip across the United States. The pony a gift from a movie producer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The German news agency published a message from Spanish Nationalist leader Miguel Cabanellas which stated: “The Spanish nation never will forget the friendship and moral support extended by Germany. Your leader and nation keep watch against bolshevism in the east. We will do the same in the west, where it is no less important in this decisive hour in European history

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 15, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 15, 1936

Monday September 14, 1936

diary 2The 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.

Saw “Texas Rangers” but the best part of the program was the short Image resultshowing 3rd dimensions.  We looked through the colored glasses called something.  We got in after it had started.Audioscopiks FilmPoster.jpeg  A man threw a baseball which must have hit the head of the man in front of me!   And another fellow squirted water over all the audience.

 

 

 

 

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The Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza began.

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aGeorge McMahon, the man who aimed a revolver at King Edward VIII in July, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour for “intent to alarm the king

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept. 14, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept. 14, 1936

 

Sunday September 13, 1936

diary 2The 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.

Letter from Dit – everything O.K.  Saw everyone at church

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17-year old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians struck out 17 Philadelphia Athletics, setting a new single-game American League record and tying the major league record set by Dizzy Dean in 1933

 

Adolf Hitler reviewed 107,000 men of the SA and SS in Nuremberg.

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Chicago Sunday Tribune Sept 13, 1936

 

 

Saturday September 12, 1936

diary 2The 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.

Got $75.00 from the bank and sent 3 checks to Mary Jo for $44, $6 and Image result for moscow skies by maurice$20 – Got Moscow Skies by Maurice Hindus to review.

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The Nationalists captured San Sebastián to win complete control of the Basque region.

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The Battle of Majorca ended in Nationalist victory. The Italian occupation of Majorca began.

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Fred Perry of the United Kingdom beat Don Budge in the men’s singles final of the U.S. National Championships. Perry was the first foreigner to ever win the tennis championship.

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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 12, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 12, 1936

 

Friday September 11, 1936

diary 2The 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.

Ate tacos for supper at Martens.  Played Tripoli afterwards, nine of us.

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As part of ceremonies at the World Power Conference, President Roosevelt pressed a golden key in Washington, D.C. to put a small 3,500 horsepower generator into service for Boulder Dam and Boulder City, Nevada.

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Due to the belief that sunlight promoted health, students on Madison Street in Albany New York went to school in a greenhouse.

The Supreme Electoral Council, the predecessor of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, was founded.

 

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The musical play Careless Rapture by Ivor Novello and Christopher Hassall premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London

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Adolph Hitler speaks at Nuremberg
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 11, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 11, 1936