Daily Archives: September 14, 2017

Tuesday September 14, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

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The Nyon Conference ended with an agreement to establish a system of patrol zones, with the British and French assuming the most responsibility.

Image result for september 14, 1937Detroit Police receive 60 new motorcycles.

 

 

 

 

 

Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.

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Chicago Daily Tribune September 14, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune September 14, 1937

Monday September 13, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

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The Battle of Xinkou began.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler decreed that Jews could be released from “protective custody” in concentration camps if they provided evidence that they were emigrating.[

Japanese forces captured Datong.

The Chinese government made a formal appeal to the League of Nations to take action against Japan.

In his final address on the closing day of the Nuremberg Rally, Hitler declared that the failure of Franco’s Nationalists would “upset the balance of power in Europe, which is of vital importance to Germany.”

 

 

German Tennis player Gottfried von Gramm   is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Kitty Keene aired for the first time on NBC Red Network.

Group of American Legion Secretaries Typing. New York City

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Sunday September 12, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

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Excerpts from a letter written by the imprisoned German pastor Martin Niemöller were read to his congregation. “I often think of others who must wander through the same dark valley as myself”, one passage read. “But it is a comfort to us all to know that you are praying for us. I am certain the almighty God will triumph.”

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Caracciola sits on what appears to be the back of a vehicle. A young woman sits in front of him.Rudolf Caracciola of Germany won the Italian Grand Prix.

 

 

A bomb explodes at the French Employers Confederation’s building, in Paris France

 

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The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace

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Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 12, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 12, 1937

Saturday September 11, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

No Post today:Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

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President Roosevelt gave a press conference in New York vowing he would do everything possible “to keep us out of war.”

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine

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Chicago Daily Tribune September 11, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune September 11, 1937

 

Bette Cooper of New Jersey won the 11th Miss America beauty pageant.Image result for Bette Cooper