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Wednesday March 24, 1934

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.

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

 

60,000 auto workers striking against Chrysler ended a 17-day work stoppage after a tentative settlement was reached.

Eight middle aged white men, seven wearing three piece suits and one wearing an overcoat that obscures what he's wearing beneath, stand in two rows in front of some steps.
William Aberhart’s first cabinet, pictured with him in 1935, remained intact until late in 1936.

Social Credit backbenchers’ revolt: By a vote of 27 to 25, a motion was carried in the Alberta legislature over the protest of Premier William Aberhart to adjourn the debate on his government’s budget.

 

 

 

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Oxford won the 89th Boat Race, ending Cambridge‘s streak of 13 consecutive wins.

Image result for march 24, 1937The new Post Office is dedicated in San Antonio, Texas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune March 24, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 24, 1937

Saturday April 4, 1936

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

 

Wrote Mrs. Berkness and Jaime – Played tennis about 1/2 hour but the wind had too much sand in it!  Visited with Palmers awhile

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

Eleanor Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown

 

 

 

Lucky Luciano -April 1936
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Gangster Lucky Luciano is arrested in Hot Springs Arkansas. Shortly afterwards, New York City’s “Racket Buster”, Thomas E. Dewey had him extradited back to Manhattan.

 

 

 

 

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play. A new photography exhibition provides a poignant and beautiful retrospective   of London's extinct East End.:
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Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play.

 

 

The Big Blow Out is released. Porky Pig  helps people in the streets in order to get cash quick to buy an ice-cream soda. Meanwhile a mad bomber is terrorizing the city.

 

 

On orders from the German Labour Front, industrial workers who did not vote in the March 29 elections were fired from their jobs as “slackers”.

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Cambridge won the 88th Boat Race.

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The airship LZ 129 Hindenburg completed its first transatlantic flight, arriving in Rio de Janeiro. From April 6 to 10 it flew back to Germany

Chicago Daily Tribune April 4, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 4, 1936