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Monday November 9, 1936

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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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Koco Kotta.jpgKostaq Kota became Prime Minister of Albania for the second time.

Four masked men stole the Wallace Sword from the Wallace Monument in Scotland.

 

 

The Premier of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine

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John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie were wed in Yuma, Arizona a few minutes after midnight.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. and Valentine v. United States.

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Sunday November 8, 1936

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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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Lenore Shafer moved in with me!  Surely am glad that after we had planned our apt. and I back out, we can still be together.

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Wells Fargo stagecoach celebrating the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge opening

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Nationalist general Emilio Mola launched an assault on the Spanish capital city of Madrid, beginning the three-year Siege of Madrid.

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250,000 people gathered in Hyde Park in support of the Jarrow Marchers.

Guatemala and El Salvador recognized the Franco regime

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Saturday November 7, 1936

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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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Boys working on the Madrid defenses

The Madrid Defense Council was formed.

CharlesCouglinCraineDetroitPortrait.jpgFather Charles Coughlin announced that he was withdrawing from “all radio activity in the best interest of all the people” and retiring from politics. This retirement proved to be short-lived as he returned to the air in January 1937

 

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker.

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Friday November 6, 1936

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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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Live Entertainment and Music on Television is brought to life at the NBC RCA building in New York.

Image result for new capital in valencia 1936Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Largo Caballero and other government officials fled Madrid and set up a new capital in Valencia.Administration of Madrid was turned over to an eight-man junta led by General José Miaja.

Franco ordered a halt to the executions of Basque priests who were considered supporters of the Republic.

Richard S. Lambert won his defamation case and was awarded £7,500 by the jury.

Dvdcover rembrandt.jpgThe British biographical film Rembrandt premiered in the United Kingdom

 

 

 

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Thursday November 5, 1936

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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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Image result for hitler slader penal codeNazi Germany published a new penal code introducing heavy penalties for slandering Adolf Hitler or the memories of the late Paul von Hindenburg, Horst Wessel and Albert Leo Schlageter. The new code also removed duelling from the list of offenses

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Wednesday November 4, 1936

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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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Image result for november 4, 1936C.V. Mauldin completes the Trip Around The World. The 36,535 mile trip took 147 days from June 11 to November 4, 1936. That’s 28,656 miles by boat.

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The CNT/FAI accepted four cabinet posts in the Spanish Republic, the first and only time that anarchists have participated in a national government.

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The satirical anti-Nazi play Round Heads and Pointed Heads by Bertolt Brecht premiered at the Riddersalen Theatre in Copenhagen.

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Tuesday November 3, 1936

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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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Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected in a Landslide

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Times Square after FDR was re-elected

 

 

The Miyagi earthquake struck Japan.

Several cantons in Switzerland banned the Communist Party.

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Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg performed a cabinet reshuffle that ousted all three former members of the Heimwehr.

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Edward VIII opened Parliament with a speech from the throne.

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The first episode of Starlight was broadcast on BBC Television.

 

Chicago Daily Tribune November 3, 1936
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Monday November 2, 1936

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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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Returned Markhauls car, which we used for the trip, washed, greased and full of gas, besides giving Mr. M 3 pairs of sox.  Nize man!

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In large rounded sans-serif font, the lower-case word "one" is written in white on a red background. To the left in smaller letters, the letters "BBC" in solid white squares is written; the tops of the two words are aligned.

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BBC Television Service, Britain’s first television station, was launched.

The current logo of CBC/Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was launched.

Coat of arms of BruneteNationalists captured Brunete

 

 

Robert Rutherford McCormick and  Joseph Medill Patterson are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Chicago Daily Tribune November 2, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune November 2, 1936

 

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Sunday November 1, 1936

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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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Started home about 9:30 – Picked up Charlotte at Dick and Thelma’s. Stopped at Marioite to see Gomez and at Estancia for lunch with Mrs. Annie Dean – Lovely people.  Got home before seven

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Speaking to a crowd in Milan, Benito Mussolini coins the name “Axis” for Italy and its allies when he states that the “line between Rome and Berlin is not a partition but rather an axis around which all European states…can also collaborate.”

Image result for november 1, 1936Clark Gable with dogs at the Hollywood Studios

 

 

 

 

 

Television available int he US today.

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Chicago Sunday Tribune November 1, 1936
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Saturday October 31, 1936

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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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General meeting – Hoped to hear Dr. Zimmerman on the Quarter-Centennial but Dr. Hewitt gave it instead.  Then Gov. Tingley read a talk on the “Future of Ed in New Mex”  but he doesn’t say much of anything.  Big disappointment.  I saw “Ladies in Love” in afternoon. Alyce C and I saw “San Francisco” in the evening

 

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FDR Welcomes their hatred in a speech at Madison Square Garden

 

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The hunger marchers from Jarrow arrived in London.

Boy Scouts of the Philippines.pngThe Boy Scouts of the Philippines organization was founded.

 

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Jockey Johnny Pollard rides race horse Seabiscuit before a race at Empire City Track, New York
Chicago Daily Tribune October 31, 1936
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