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Tuesday May 11,1937

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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 my home room to Bottomless Lakes – Mrs Roney helped chaperone them.   They went swimming and motor-boating – Good time.

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Image result for "for the welfare of our great empire. king george vi speech may 11, 1937 youtubeGeorge VI met all the representatives of England’s Dominions and colonies and pledged to carry on his father’s work “for the welfare of our great empire.” The speech made no mention of his brother Edward.

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LBJ and President FDR, meet with Governor James Allred  in Galveston

 

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Monday May 10, 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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Frozen food came to Britain when frozen asparagus went on sale for the first time

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Derby favorites are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Image result for may 10, 1937Monroe, North  Carolina celebrates the Confederate Memorial Day

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Pres Franklin Roosevelt Smokes Cigarette and Fishing During Vacation on Gulf of Mexico

 

More than 5,000,000 gallons of water was pumped into a five-story brick building iin Detroit,  before a 5-alarm fire was brought under control

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 10, 1937
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Sunday May 9, 1937

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Sent Ty-Ty body powder and artificial dress bouquet for Mother’s Day.  Sent Dad hankies tie too!  Still I have no hat.   Have decided to go to Mexico again this summer and finish toward a Master’s – Last night, Patty, Rosamond, Mary Desarmeaux and Dot her sister, and Lavora, ate supper with all of us and Harriet Poorbaugh. Harriet and Lenore went to the show and we sat around and talked.   Ed, Alyce Claire and I took them all back to Dexter and Lake Arthur. I think Margie will marry her Stan Bagwell in Amarillo June 2, though her sister doesn’t want it.  Contracts given out.  I get 125 next year!  Seems small.

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Image result for woman flee bilbao5,000 women and children began to evacuate Bilbao.

More than 50 were injured in Toulouse when a riot broke out between political factions. The rioting began when rightists paraded to an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc shouting “France for the French”, referring to the allegation that the Popular Front government of Prime Minister Léon Blum took orders from Moscow

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Paris Celebrates Joan Of Arc

Image result for may 9, 1937 grand prixHermann Lang  wins the Tripoli Grand Prix, in Mallaha,at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz W 125.

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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy debuts on NBC
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Saturday May 8, 1937

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Italy recalled its news correspondents from London and banned all British newspapers except for the Daily Mail, The Observer and The Evening News. The move was believed to have been taken in reaction to the British press mocking the recent defeats of Italian troops in the Spanish Civil War.

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Challenge Cup logoWidnes defeated Keighley 18-5 in to win rugby’s Challenge Cup in front of 47,699 at Wembley Stadium.

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The Montreux Convention Regarding the Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt was concluded.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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Friday May 7, 1937

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German aviation minister Hermann Göring ordered work rushed on the LZ 130 LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, which was to have been the sister ship of the Hindenburg.

United StatesThe U.S. Congress passed neutrality legislation permitting the sale of certain commodities (excluding munitions) while making it illegal for U.S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships.

Shall We Dance poster.jpgThe musical film Shall We Dance starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was released. This film introduced the famous George and Ira Gershwin songs “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” and “They Can’t Take That Away from Me“.

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A Royal Navy submarine emerges from the Thames in front of Tower Bridge on its way to St Katharine’s Dock
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The Amarillo Globe May 7, 1937
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Thursday May 6, 1937

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The German airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built, explodes as it arrives in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people died in the fiery accident that has since become iconic, in part because of the live radio broadcast of the disaster.

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Wednesday May 5, 1937

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Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Largo Caballero sent the Guardia de Asalto to Barcelona to put down the May Days violence.

 

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British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pleaded for labour peace ahead of the coronation of George VI as the bus strike threatened to spread

 

Image result for may 5, 1937Workers resume work on Abraham Lincoln’s chin at Mount Rushmore, after breaking for winter, South Dakota, Black Hills

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 5, 1937
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Tuesday May 4, 1937

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Image result for edward wallis simpson engagedThe Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield (ex-Simpson) reunited in France after six months apart and immediately became officially engaged.

 

 

 

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The Non-Intervention Committee asked both sides in the Spanish Civil War to forswear bombing of open cities

Image result for may 4, 1937 The President Of The Republic Albert Lebrun (Center) Officially Inaugurates The International Exhibition Of Paris At The Trocadero

 

 

 

 

The turkish cabinet issues the  “Derism Repression Decrees” against genocide ultimately leading to  10s of thousands of Kurds to be massacred by TerroristTurkey

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A rhinoceros approaches Parks photographer Max Ulrich as he snaps a photograph at the Central Park Zoo in New York City

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 4, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 4, 1937
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Monday May 3, 1937

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The Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt, Germany, on the evening of May 3, 1937, on the first of 10 round trips between Europe and the United States that were scheduled for its second year of commercial service.

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Six days of civil violence known as the May Days began in Catalonia.

Actors Billy and Bobby Mauch are on the cover of this weeks Time magazine

Image result for may 3 1937Image result for may 3 1937Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘Gone With the Wind”

 

 

 

 

 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt goes fishins at Port Aransas

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Sunday May 2, 1937

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Austrian police raided the headquarters of the Nazi Party in Vienna, finding evidence of collaboration between German and Austrian Nazis, as well as propaganda hostile to the Austrian government.

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The statue of Father Francis Patrick Duffy, a world war 1 priest, is unveiled in Times Square. 

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