Monthly Archives: May 2017

Monday May 31, 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.

Quiet day – Sent Alyce Claire her two dresses she had packed in my bag.  Wrote her, Mary Jo, and the Mex train official in El Paso.  Saw Harry M. Says Roswell is damp but reports have been greatly exaggerated!

 

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Bombardment of Almería: German warships bombarded the city of Almería in retaliation for the Deutschland incident.

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The Republicans launched the Segovia Offensive.

 

Italy and Germany decided to withdraw from the non-intervention cordon around Spain.

The Dionne Quintuplets are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.

TIME Magazine Cover: Dionne Quintuplets -- May 31, 1937

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Senjūrō Hayashi 林 銑十郎

Senjūrō Hayashi resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.

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Wilbur Shaw won the Indianapolis 500.

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 31, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 31, 1937

Sunday May 30. 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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Hope Harry got to Roswell ! Floods have been 6 ft all over Roswell!  Wrote Carsey, Lenore and the School Supt at Hobbs, N. Mex! Am playing “tired horse” today, too.

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The Memorial Day Massacre

The Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, during the “Little Steel Strike”

 

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Chicago Sunday Tribune May 30. 1937
Chicago Sunday Tribune May 30. 1937

Saturday May 29,1 937

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.

Left Midland about 9:40 -Train was late because of rains.  Carsey rode as far as Odessa (20 miles)  with me and I hated to see him leave – The rest of the trip was slow and boring!  Got home about 2:30 and did nothing except wash a few things for Sunday. Dorothy Monk and Harry Mulray plan to goto  Roswell tomorrow and return

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Deutschland in 1935Deutschland incident: Republican planes bombed the German cruiser Deutschland.

 

 

 

 

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

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Black roller dust storm is rushing toward Clayton, New Mexico

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Armed Hungarian Troops Kneeling In The Streets While Doing The Military Salute During The Traditional March For The Pentecost Holiday, In Budapest

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 29, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 29, 1937

Friday May 28, 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.

Woke up about 9:30 – Slept at Mrs. Burl Greyton’s at the camp – Carsey came over and we ate lunch there and left for Midland.  Fairly good road. Saw films at Ben’s and saw a show. Saw Toolen’s at supper. Told them to tell Dad I’d be home tomorrow.  Ben’s children are darlings.  Named for their parents , They are Bennie and Little Dorothy

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The government of Germany–then under the control of Adolf Hitler,  formed a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk.

 

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Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when Stanley Baldwin retired. Chamberlain signalled an intention to continue Baldwin’s policies by making very few changes to the cabinet.

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In the final act of the Baldwin government, the London Gazette announced that Wallis Warfield would not be elevated to royal status upon her marriage to the Duke of Windsor, and would only be entitled to be addressed in the forms appropriate to a woman who was married to a duke but was not of royal blood. The ruling also applied to any children she might have with the Duke

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On this day in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while seated in the Oval Office, pressed a golden telegraph button to ceremonially open the Golden Gate Bridge to vehicular traffic.

Image result for may 28, 1937The Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne turn 3.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 28 , 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 28 , 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday May 27, 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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Went to Brownsfield about middle of morning. Lovely ride – Everybody has had lots of rain. Ate lunch in Brownsfield and cleaned up. Carsey came for me at 6.  Went to Lubbock to “look around” and eat supper. Rode down to camp. Got there at 2 a.m.  Carsey is as grand as I’ve ever known him and seems to be glad I came.

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Image result for may 27, 1937The Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco.

Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svgThe Gestapo ordered 200 German Catholic newspapers to shut down for publishing articles critical of Nazi institutions

 

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Amelia Earhart’s poses with an airplane as it’s being built in Burbank ,CA

Chicago Daily Tribune May 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 27, 1937

Wednesday May 26, 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.

 

Left for Tatum about 2 P.M. after fooling around and getting everyone paid up!  Charlotte Klyng went with us to Tatum to visit her mother from there. We stayed with Joyce – Went out to Mr. Teague’s ranch with Levron Montieth and some nut who was drunk (?) but we didn’t know it till later

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Image resultEgypt joined the League of Nations. This would prove to be the last country to do so.

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The Little Steel strike began in the United States.

The London bus strike ended.

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Wrestlers Bluebeard Lewis and Baron Benny Ginsberg grapple outside the ring

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 26, 1937

 

Tuesday May 25, 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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Carsey called me from Andrews about going home by there. I’ve decided to go to Broomsfield with Alyce Claire and have him come up there and take me to Midland to see Ben!  I wanted to tallk to him so badly but was afraid to talk over 3 min-

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The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) opened in Paris.

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Mickey Cochran

Detroit Tigers star Mickey Cochrane suffered a career-ending, near-fatal injury when he was hit by a beanball pitched by Bump Hadley of the New York Yankees.

An editorial in Mussolini’s Il Popolo d’Italia warned the Jews of Italy to cease making criticisms of Germany, because such opposition was “irreconcilable with the friendship that binds us to Germany and which has objectives far more vast and fundamental than the Jewish question.

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The Steam locomotive ‘Coronation’ being cheered by workers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 25, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 25, 1937

Monday May 24, 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.

No Post today.

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Republican warplanes bombed a patrol boat of the Italian Navy, killing several sailors.

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Janis Rudsutak
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Eleanor Roosevelt visiting the Packhorse Library in West Liberty, KY,

Soviet politician Jānis Rudzutaks was arrested and accused of Trotskyism and espionage for Nazi Germany.

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Helvering v. Davis and Steward Machine Co. v. Davis.

 

 

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Men set up speakers to amplify the switching on ceremony

 

 

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The Chicago Daily Tribune May 24, 1937
The Chicago Daily Tribune May 24, 1937

Sunday May 23, 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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3,840 children evacuated from the Spanish Civil War arrived in Southampton.

Logo of the Fourth InternationalLeon Trotsky outlined a Fourth International to oppose Joseph Stalin

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Leon Trotsky
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Pigeon release at the Arc de Triomphe. Paris

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 23, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 23, 1937

 

Saturday May 22, 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.

No Post today.

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A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky

Soviet military leader Mikhail Tukhachevsky was arrested and charged with conspiring against the government and spying for Nazi Germany

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 22, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 22, 1937