(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Letter from Dit forwarded from Van Horn saying she isn’t sure she and Harold can join us Christmas!  Surely hope they manage.  Graded Mental Tests for 2 hours in the evening.  Saw “Last Days of Pompeii” Only the setting and eruption of Vesuvius is the same as the book.

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

Captain of the China Clipper,  Edwin C. Musick,  is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.

The British cabinet decided to support a motion at the League of Nations that sanctions against Italy be expanded to include an oil embargo.

French Fascist Marcel Bucard and 110 supporters were arrested in Strasbourg

Animator Marc Davis began work with Walt Disney.

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