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Monday November 30, 1936

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The Republicans launched the Villarreal Offensive.

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The Crystal Palace of London was destroyed by fire. Huge numbers of people turned out to watch the spectacular blaze.

 

 

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President Roosevelt visited Buenos Aires to an enthusiastic welcome

 

Marlene Dietrich is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine

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Wednesday November 4, 1936

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Image result for november 4, 1936C.V. Mauldin completes the Trip Around The World. The 36,535 mile trip took 147 days from June 11 to November 4, 1936. That’s 28,656 miles by boat.

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The CNT/FAI accepted four cabinet posts in the Spanish Republic, the first and only time that anarchists have participated in a national government.

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The satirical anti-Nazi play Round Heads and Pointed Heads by Bertolt Brecht premiered at the Riddersalen Theatre in Copenhagen.

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Tuesday November 3, 1936

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Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected in a Landslide

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Times Square after FDR was re-elected

 

 

The Miyagi earthquake struck Japan.

Several cantons in Switzerland banned the Communist Party.

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Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg performed a cabinet reshuffle that ousted all three former members of the Heimwehr.

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Edward VIII opened Parliament with a speech from the throne.

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The first episode of Starlight was broadcast on BBC Television.

 

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Saturday October 31, 1936

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General meeting – Hoped to hear Dr. Zimmerman on the Quarter-Centennial but Dr. Hewitt gave it instead.  Then Gov. Tingley read a talk on the “Future of Ed in New Mex”  but he doesn’t say much of anything.  Big disappointment.  I saw “Ladies in Love” in afternoon. Alyce C and I saw “San Francisco” in the evening

 

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FDR Welcomes their hatred in a speech at Madison Square Garden

 

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The hunger marchers from Jarrow arrived in London.

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Jockey Johnny Pollard rides race horse Seabiscuit before a race at Empire City Track, New York
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Wednesday October 28, 1936

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Off to teachers’ meet – Grand trip.   Got a room at El Fidel that Gov Tingley occupies tomorrow!  Hope they give us another as nice when we move Image result for el fidel hotel albuquerqueout.  Went to the Hop at thhe Armory and danced 3 or 4 times. Pure Mexican music!  Met Dick and Thelma Morgan, friends of Charlotte and Marjery Leison (ditto) from Raton

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The Statue of Liberty turns 50.  FDR speaks. 

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MP Ellen Wilkinson and Jarrow Crusade marchers near Luton, October 28, 1936

The Jarrow Crusades continue in the Brittish town of Jarrow, workers marching against unemployment and poverty.

 

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The prototype of the German heavy bomber Dornier Do 19 had its first flight

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Wednesday October 21, 1936

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Dad left at 9:45 for Clovis.  Hope he gets a good place.   Got book from Cobeau’s

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Shirley Temple with ‘Ching Ching’ and ‘Road King’

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Wednesday October 14, 1936

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The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, bydiary 2Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Wallis Simpson -1936.JPGA divorce suit initiated by Wallis Simpson against her husband Ernest was set for October 27. “The case will not be defended”, Mr. Simpson declared. “Beyond that I have no statement to make.”

Belgium withdrew from its treaty of mutual assistance with France due to France’s failure to react to the German remilitarization of the Rhineland.

Edward VIII made it known that he would not be continuing the tradition of the Royal Christmas Message started by his father.

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This Is How Engineering Students Moved a Car to the Top of a School Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday October 12, 1936

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The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, bydiary 2Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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A shipment of 50 T-26 tanks and some BA-3 armoured cars from the Soviet Union arrived in Cartagena to aid the Spanish Republic.

Cross-channel train ferry service began between Dover and Dunkirk. The service made it possible to ride in the same sleeping car from London all the way to Paris

Lord Linlithgowd is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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FDR at Denver Colorado
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Rupert, this photo shows the Type 59 Bugatti after it crashed in practice one day before the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race held

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday October 10, 1936

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Kruckenkreuz Ständestaat Österreich.svgThe Heimwehr was dissolved and absorbed by the Fatherland Front.

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At least 310 people were killed by a typhoon the struck Luzon in the Philippines over the past two days.

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The London Gazette announced that women over 18 could be employed filling three inch mortar bombs. It was first time since the Great War that British women could work in munitions factories.

The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was created in Nazi Germany.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns in Plattsmouth

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Tuesday September 29, 1936

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Wrote Mrs. Ruiz, Cecelis Faulkes and Mahota

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The burning wreck of Almirante Ferrándiz just before she exploded

The Battle of Cape Espartel was fought in the Strait of Gibraltar. The Nationalists were victorious and broke the Republican blockade of the strait.

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A declaration signed by Miguel Cabanellas was issued naming Francisco Franco “Chief of the Government of the Spanish State”.

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British soldiers on an armoured train car with two Palestinian Arab prisoners

Britain declared martial law in Palestine to fight the Arab revolt.

 

 

 

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During a speech in Syracuse, New York, President Roosevelt called communism “a false issue” in the presidential campaign and asked that “here and now we bury this red herring.” Roosevelt maintained that his record showed “consistent adherence” to American democracy

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 29, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 29, 1936
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