The 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.
Edward VIII visited Dowlais in South Wales where he saw the abandoned site of the Dowlais Ironworks. The King was shocked by the poverty he witnessed and famously declared that “something must be done.
USS Indianapolis CA-35 departing Charleston, South Carolina, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a Good Neighbor cruise to South America.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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
Have a ride with Mr. Moore (Payton Meat Co.) to Van Horn this afternoon. Am reading ‘Goya” by Schneider – Rather like it. Finished ‘Winding Lane’ by Phillip Gibbs and A Story of Henry VIII ‘The King Rides’ or something like that, last week. Have discovered I like P.E. Wadehouse better than Benchley as a steady diet. Got home about 6 p.m. The family was expecting me on the train – Fooled ’em!
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today
Day 7 of the 1936 Olympic Games
African American track star Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4×100-meter relay
The 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
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Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today
The 1936 Heat Wave inspires creativity at a time there was no air conditioning
When the temperature peaked at an all-time high of 108° in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the want-ad staff at the ‘St. Paul Daily News’ was provided with 400 pounds of ice and two electric fans to cool the air in the press room. Photo from the Minnesota Historical Society.
An apparent attempt to assassinate Edward VIII was foiled on Constitution Hill. As the king’s horse passed the crowd while returning to Buckingham Palace from a colours ceremony in Hyde Park, a man raised a revolver. A woman grabbed the man’s arm and shouted, alerting a constable who knocked the weapon from his hand. The man, identified as George Andrew McMahon, told police he had no intention of harming the king and was only making a protest.
Adolf Hitler sent Edward a telegram offering his “heartiest congratulations” on his escape.
Italy lifted its wartime restrictions on meat and nightlife curfews.
Charles Edward Coughlin
Father Charles Coughlin aligned himself with Francis Townsend and denounced President Roosevelt as a “great betrayer and liar”, saying, “He who promised to drive the money changers from the temple has built up the greatest public debt in the nation’s history. Is that driving the money changers from the temple?
Edward VIII visited Dowlais in South Wales where he saw the abandoned site of the Dowlais Ironworks. The King was shocked by the poverty he witnessed and famously declared that “something must be done.
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by Phillip Gibbs and A Story of Henry VIII ‘The King Rides’ or something like that, last week. Have discovered I like P.E. Wadehouse better than Benchley as a steady diet. Got home about 6 p.m. The family was expecting me on the train – Fooled ’em!
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