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Monday May 24, 1937

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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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Republican warplanes bombed a patrol boat of the Italian Navy, killing several sailors.

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Eleanor Roosevelt visiting the Packhorse Library in West Liberty, KY,

Soviet politician Jānis Rudzutaks was arrested and accused of Trotskyism and espionage for Nazi Germany.

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Helvering v. Davis and Steward Machine Co. v. Davis.

 

 

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Men set up speakers to amplify the switching on ceremony

 

 

Image result for may 24, 1937The Archbishop of Canterbury is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chicago Daily Tribune May 24, 1937
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Monday June 8, 1936

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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.

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Texas Governor James V Allred is on the cover of this week’s Time magazine.

42 were killed in Bucharest when two crowded grandstands collapsed during a Boy Scouts rally. Members of the royal family including King Carol II and son Michael witnessed the tragedy but were uninjured.

A bomb blast at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem wounded 25.

The First Lady is in Iowa talking about the WPA program

Chicago Daily Tribune June 8, 1936
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Saturday April 4, 1936

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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

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Eleanor Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

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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. 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
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