Monthly Archives: March 2017

Saturday March 20, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Lou Gehrig signed a new contract with the New York Yankees for $36,000 plus a $750 signing bonus, making him the highest-paid player in baseball.

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Amelia Earhart‘s plane crashed as she attempted to take off in Honolulu. Earhart and her two passengers escaped injury

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 20, 1937

Friday March 19, 1937

 

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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41 women were arrested at a Woolworths in Manhattan after crossing their arms and refusing to work.  The strikers are seeking a 40-hour week for $20 pay,

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Emblem of the Holy SeePope Pius XI promulgated the anti-communist encyclical Divini Redemptoris.

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Royal Mail won the Grand National horse race

Popeye is artistic

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 19, 1937

Thursday March 18, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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New London School explosion: A natural gas explosion destroyed a school in New London, Texas and killed at least 295 people. It remains the worst school disaster in American history.

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Arabs in Tripoli presented Mussolini with the “Sword of Islam” to symbolize his leadership and present him as a protector of the Muslim faith. A famous propaganda photo depicts Mussolini on horseback raising this sword above his head.

Republicans took Brihuega

BYGONE - 031717Just 36 days after the Mississippi River stood at a record 48.7 feet in Memphis on Feb. 10, the Chisca sat on a sandbar near Tunica

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Inside the Hindenburg Airship. Interior corridor of the passenger cabin.

 

 

 

 

 

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Amelia Earhart wears a lei upon arrival at Wheeler Field, Oahu, from California

Chicago Daily Tribune March 18, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 18, 1937

Wednesday March 17, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Charles de Chambrun

The former French Ambassador to Italy Charles de Chambrun was shot in the thigh by a woman who blamed him for breaking up her friendship with Mussolini

 

 

 

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v Amelia Earhart in Flight, Oakland to Honolulu
Chicago Daily Tribune March 17, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 17, 1937

Tuesday March 16, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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The Corpo Truppe Volontarie was routed during the Battle of Guadalajara.

Image result for civil list 1937The Civil List of George VI was presented in the House of Commons. Edward, Duke of Windsor was absent from the list, ending the speculation over whether he would receive a government pension. Whatever income Edward was to receive would be a matter purely within the family

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French Tennis Champion Sylvia Henrotin Serving

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Duce, Benito Mussolini at a mass in the Agricultural Center in Massah (a town called Luigi Razza by the italians), Libya

Chicago Daily Tribune March 16, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 16, 1937

Monday March 15, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Got back from a visit to Seminole – Curry’s (our hostess) were lonley but Carsey Such a selfish insulting someone I never seen!  I don’t care if I never see him!

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Image result for madison square garden march 14, 193720,000 people attended an anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden. Banners hanging from the rafters called for a boycott of Nazi goods. Hugh S. Johnson was a featured speaker at the event, declaring that “Hitler and his immediate staff of Nazipathics have become a sort of monster, threatening the peace of the world.

Joseph Davis, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
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The Highway is under construction in San Francisco

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The Derailment of a Southern Pacific freight train in the mouth of tunnel at Tehachapi Pass held up passenger for hours. They later were taken to Los Angeles by bus. 

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 15, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 15, 1937

Sunday March 14, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Beginning at midnight the naval powers of France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany began patrolling Spanish seas with the objective of keeping foreign arms and volunteers out of the Civil War

 

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Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed-Electra airplane at Oakland Airport, ca.
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Duke, Chick Webb & Artie Shaw at a jam session at the Brunswick Recording Studio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Sunday Tribune March 14, 1937
Chicago Sunday Tribune March 14, 1937

Saturday March 13, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Image result for march 13, 1937Joe Petrali  riding a specially built streamlined Harley-Davidson in Daytona Beach,  he set a new one-mile motorcycle speed record of 136.183 mph. That record would hold for 11 years.

 

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The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling in the Remington Rand strike, finding that Remington Rand committed acts of deceit, economic warfare and union breaking. The company was ordered to reinstate all strikers with back pay and recognize the union, but owner James Rand, Jr. refused and the strike continued.

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One of the few tank-vs.-tank engagements of the Spanish Civil War was fought near Trijueque when some Republican T-26s destroyed five Italian-made CV 3/35 tankettes and severely damaged two more

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Image result for march 13, 1937Amelia Earhart takes the $80,000 flying laboratory on a trial run over San Francisco Bay prepping for her around-the-world flight

 

 

 

 

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 13, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 13, 1937

Friday March 12, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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A new King is crowned

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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on coronation day

 

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Aimo Cajander

Aimo Cajander became Prime Minister of Finland for the third time.

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William Dodd

The U.S. Ambassador to Germany William Dodd protested to German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath about recent attacks on the United States in the German press. Von Neurath said he regretted the violent tone of the articles but did not give a formal reply

 

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Amelia Earhart at the controls of her Lockheed Electra
Chicago Daily Tribune March 12, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 12, 1937

Thursday March 11, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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The funeral of Howie Morenz was held in the Montreal Forum

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The Murderer Simone Desarmenien Crying In The Police Station Of Colombes, She Had Been Severely Injured With A Hatchet By His Husband And His Mistress.

 

Chicago Daily Tribune March 11, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 11, 1937