Daily Archives: June 21, 2017

Tuesday June 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.

Went to El Paso, Pop, Ty-Ty and Mary Jo went on to Ruidoso.  I stayed at Dit’s – They plan to move!

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

 

Joe Louis won boxing’s World Heavyweight Championship with an eighth-round knockout of James J. Braddock at Comiskey Park in Chicago

 

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Camille Chautemps

Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time.

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An espionage tribunal was established in the Spanish Republic with the primary task of putting members of POUM on trial

 

 

 

 

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Lil Abner
Chicago Daily Tribune June 22, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 22, 1937

Monday June 21, 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

 

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Leon Blum

Léon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France when the Senate refused to give him special powers to deal with the country’s financial crisis.

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Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey ordered 4,500 National Guardsmen to Youngstown.

The Wimbledon Championships were televised for the first time, on BBC Television.

Dr Morris Fishbein is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The Cole Bros Circus arrives in Montreal

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Buffalo is flooding.

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 21, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 21, 1937