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Friday May 21, 1937

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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 bodies of the 26 German victims of the Hindenburg tragedy arrived in Cuxhaven by ship. A state funeral was held in a local hall.

The Soviet Union established the North Pole-1 station in the Arctic Ocean.

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Golden Gate Bridge at night before official opening in San Francisco

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Image result for may 21, 1937The boyscout Jamboree  is underway in Washington D.C.

In the evening,  the Inland Steel employees went on strike in Chicago

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 21, 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thursday May 20, 1937

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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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BBC Radio commentator Thomas Woodrooffe went on the air drunk and repeatedly slurred the phrase, “the fleet’s lit up.” as King George VI conducted a fleet review.

 

The Soviet Union executed 44 people as spies for Japan.

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A Group Of Dwarves At Bucharest’S Train Station

 

 

 

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Educator and Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and husband posing during their wedding.

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 20, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 20, 1937
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Wednesday May 19, 1937

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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 press in Nazi Germany demanded that the Vatican publicly repudiate the Archbishop of Chicago George Mundelein for his remarks. “The cardinal insulted not only the head of the German state and its ministers but the entire German nation”, an editorial in Der Angriff stated. “We make the Catholic church responsible if the speech evokes a new wave of anti-German agitation, and we ask the Vatican if it intends to tolerate this speech without protest.”

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King Victor Emmanuel III and Queen Elena of Italy made an official visit to Budapest.

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Angry about being called for a balk during the sixth inning of a game against the New York Giants, Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals began throwing at Giants batters in the top of the ninth. When Dean went to cover first base on a bunt by Jimmy Ripple, the two got into a fistfight that started a bench-clearing brawl

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Italy celebrates birth of Empire: Musselini, King Victor Emmanuel
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Chicago Daily Tribune May 19 1937
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Tuesday May 18, 1937

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 18, 1937

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The wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield was set for June 3 at the Château de Candé in Monts, France.

 

 

Outgoing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made the last significant speech of his time in office, in which he asked the youth of Britain to guard against the threats of fascism and communism and said that the League of Nations was of “doubtful” value.

 

 

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Archbishop of Chicago George Mundelein made the paper hanger speech, attacking “malicious” Nazi propaganda against the Catholic church. Mundelein called Joseph Goebbels “crooked” and referred to Adolf Hitler as “an Austrian paper-hanger, and a poor one at that, I am told

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Italy celebrates birth of Empire: Musselini, King Victor Emmanuel

 

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Monday May 17, 1937

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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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Juan Negrín

Juan Negrín became Prime Minister of Spain.

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Råsunda Stadium was formally inaugurated in Stockholm, Sweden. England defeated Sweden in a friendly, 4-0

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Christain X,  King of Denmark and Iceland,  is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Sunday May 16, 1937

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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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Nationalists came within seven miles of the Basque capital of Bilbao, pushing the Republicans out of the village of Gorocica.

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The “Cazadero (California)Cavalcade” occurred after railroad abandonment in 1933

Chicago Sunday Tribune May 16, 1937
Chicago Sunday Tribune May 16, 1937
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Saturday May 15, 1937

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Valencia endured the most intensive Nationalist aerial bombardment yet made on the city, killing more than 30 people.The British embassy there was damaged and two staff members wounded.

Largo Caballero.jpgFrancisco Largo Caballero resigned as Prime Minister of Spain after the Socialists and Communists withdrew participation from his cabinet over his desire to give POUM clemency.

“September in the Rain” by Guy Lombardo topped the American pop charts.

 

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

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War Admiral won the Preakness Stakes

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The remains of the wreckage of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg are removed from the U.S. Naval Base

 

 

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The Princes and Princesses of Denmark and Norway in an open carriage on their way to the cathedral on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark.

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Friday May 14, 1937

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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.

Came home dead and slept and hour.  Went riding with Velma later.  She certainly has her troubles and she was brimming over with them. Tonight is the night of the dance at Seminole!  Alyce Claire left right after school.

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The 8th Imperial Conference began in London.

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1937 Imperial Conference
Governor Winship (left) meeting with Virgin Islands governor Lawrence W. Cramer (standing) and Senator Millard Tydings,

The Governor of Puerto Rico Blanton Winship signed a bill providing for sterilization of the insane and the establishment of a eugenics board

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German Board of Inquiry at Lakehurst, NJ investigating the Hindenburg accident
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Young actors Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland arrive at a movie premiere
Chicago Daily Tribune May 14, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 14, 1937
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Thursday May 13, 1937

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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 British destroyer HMS Hunter struck a naval mine south of Almería, Spain and took severe damage, killing 8.

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Antisemitic rioting broke out in three towns near Brześć-Litewski, Poland after a police officer pushed a Jewish butcher and was stabbed to death by the butcher’s son. Jewish-owned stores were looted and at least 53 Jews were injured during violence that continued into the next morning

Chicago Daily Tribune May 13, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 13, 1937
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Wednesday May 12, 1937

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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.

Took Spanish Club (11 Mexicans, 1 American) to the Lakes, Ate supper at tea house. Everybody had a good time. Now I want to go swimming – don’t want to chaperone any more!

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The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took place at Westminster Abbey in London.

BBC Television made its first outdoor broadcast to cover the king’s coronation procession

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 12,1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 12,1937
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