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Thursday May 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.

No Post today.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today

 

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.

Image result for denny shute pga champ 1937Denny Shute won the 20th PGA Championship at Pittsburgh Field Club in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania.

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A Group Of Dwarves At Bucharest’S Train Station

 

 

 

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Image result for may 20, 1937Aviator Amelia Earhart poses next to her Electra plane’s propeller

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