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Saturday September 26, 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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Luckily no one was injured in what is considered one of the worst  train wrecks which occurred at Hemphill in McDowell County West Virginia.   Train traffic was tied up for two days.

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A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

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Seabiscuit and jockey, John (Red) Pollard came in first for the second time. It was his 50th race.

The Campaign of Gipuzkoa ended in Nationalist victory.

Tensions decreased considerably in Shanghai when the Japanese withdrew most of their forces.

Emblema NKVD.svgJoseph Stalin appointed Nikolai Yezhov as the new head of the NKVD. Under Yezhov’s direction the Great Purge would be widely expanded.

Image result for swiss franc 1936As a result of the French devaluation, Switzerland announced it would devalue its own franc by 30%.

 

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New craze for idle-rich … aerial golf. With not enough hazards in an ordinary game of golf, and not enough adventure in flying,

The farce play Horse Eats Hat co-written and directed by Orson Horse Eats Hat by Edwin Denby after Eugène Labiche.jpgWelles premiered at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York City

 

 

 

 

Disney releases a short about mice

Chicago Daily Tribune September 26, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune September 26, 1936

Friday September 25, 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.

Mailed letter to Mary Jo – Bought a rust dress at Everybody’s – Image result for mary of scotland 1936get it Monday.  Saw “Mary of Scottland ”  thought Mary’s (Katherine Hepburn) voice too monotonous but Elizabeth and the rest were excellent.  Rained all morning!  We have had more at one stretch than in ages!

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Popeye meets Littl Swee’pea

The French government decided to devalue the franc by one-quarter to one-third in order to stabilize the currency.

Julio Álvarez del Vayo

At the League of Nations, Spanish delegate Julio Álvarez del Vayo said the European non-intervention agreement amounted to “a blockade of the lawful Spanish government” and said the war would have virtually been won already if the rebels had not received foreign aid. Álvarez del Vayo said “the bloodstained soil of Spain already is the battlefield of world war”, and warned that future wars would not be fought between states but between two groups of ideas, those of “democracy and oppression

Navy beat William and Mary in the first game of the season

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Sgt Joe Lane in a Hawker Nimrod missed the arrestor wire and hit the island of HMS Courageous.

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune September 25, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune September 25, 1936