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Friday October 22, 1937

October 22, 2017PostsDisney, Duke of Windsor, France, Hitler, khemisset, SkiingShanna Vicker

diary 2 The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

Arnold came to take me to Van Horn. Left about 5. Got there about 11:30 New Mex time

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The Duke of Windsor and his wife met Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. As they departed Hitler made the Nazi salute, which the Duke returned.

Riots broke out in Khemisset, French Morocco when nationalists demanding political reforms clashed with police.

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The historical film Conquest starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer was released.

The Allard Ski Shop In Paris

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Sunday September 12, 1937

September 14, 2017PostsBomb, France, Italian Grand prix, Paris, Royal Family, tennis, TimeShanna Vicker

diary 2 The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

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Excerpts from a letter written by the imprisoned German pastor Martin Niemöller were read to his congregation. “I often think of others who must wander through the same dark valley as myself”, one passage read. “But it is a comfort to us all to know that you are praying for us. I am certain the almighty God will triumph.”

Rudolf Caracciola of Germany won the Italian Grand Prix.

A bomb explodes at the French Employers Confederation’s building, in Paris France

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The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace

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Tuesday June 22, 1937

June 21, 2017Postsboxing, France, Heavyweight champion, Joe Louis, Lil Abner, POUMShanna Vicker

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

Went to El Paso, Pop, Ty-Ty and Mary Jo went on to Ruidoso. I stayed at Dit’s – They plan to move!

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Joe Louis won boxing’s World Heavyweight Championship with an eighth-round knockout of James J. Braddock at Comiskey Park in Chicago

Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time.

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An espionage tribunal was established in the Spanish Republic with the primary task of putting members of POUM on trial

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Monday June 21, 1937

June 21, 2017PostsCircus, Flood, France, steel strike, Time, USSR, WimbledonShanna Vicker

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

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Léon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France when the Senate refused to give him special powers to deal with the country’s financial crisis.

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Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey ordered 4,500 National Guardsmen to Youngstown.

The Wimbledon Championships were televised for the first time, on BBC Television.

Dr Morris Fishbein is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Buffalo is flooding.

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Saturday January 23, 1937

January 23, 2017PostsFlood, France, Hitler, japan, Mussolini, National Diet, Stalin, strikeShanna Vicker

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

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Stalin (left) pictured with Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in 1925. He would have the three men in the picture shot during his show trials.

The second Moscow Trial began. 17 lesser communist leaders known as the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center were charged with an anti-Stalin conspiracy.

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The entire Japanese cabinet resigned due to a split between military leaders and anti-military political parties in the National Diet who thought that the army had too much influence over the government

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Italian dictator Benito MUSSOLINI, bare-chested, gets ready to ski with his son Romano

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine

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Sunday January 10, 1937

January 11, 2017PostsFrance, Gandhi, IceShanna Vicker

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

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France massed troops in French Morocco and threatened to occupy the Spanish side if the Nationalists refused to quickly oust the Germans reported in the territory. France feared that Germany was building up troops there under the guise of “volunteers” in preparation for a surprise attack on French Morocco.

The Spanish government ordered an evacuation of all citizens remaining in Madrid.

Britain warned its citizens that anyone volunteering to fight for either side in the Spanish Civil War would be subject to prosecution under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870

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Flood warning are issued over the Ohio River region.

Friday September 25, 1936

September 25, 2016PostsFrance, league of nations, PopeyeShanna Vicker

diary 2 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.

Mailed letter to Mary Jo – Bought a rust dress at Everybody’s – get it Monday. Saw “Mary of Scottland ” thought Mary’s (Katherine Hepburn) voice too monotonous but Elizabeth and the rest were excellent. Rained all morning! We have had more at one stretch than in ages!

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Popeye meets Littl Swee’pea

The French government decided to devalue the franc by one-quarter to one-third in order to stabilize the currency.

At the League of Nations, Spanish delegate Julio Álvarez del Vayo said the European non-intervention agreement amounted to “a blockade of the lawful Spanish government” and said the war would have virtually been won already if the rebels had not received foreign aid. Álvarez del Vayo said “the bloodstained soil of Spain already is the battlefield of world war”, and warned that future wars would not be fought between states but between two groups of ideas, those of “democracy and oppression

Navy beat William and Mary in the first game of the season

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Sgt Joe Lane in a Hawker Nimrod missed the arrestor wire and hit the island of HMS Courageous.

Chicago Daily Tribune September 25, 1936

Thursday June 4, 1936

June 5, 2016PostsFrance, Poland, Riots, Speaker of the HouseShanna Vicker

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Léon Blum became Prime Minister of France. Blum immediately had a crisis on his hands when a wave of strikes across the country took on the character of a general strike.

In Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland, a total of 50 Jews were reported wounded after several days of anti-Semitic rioting. A synagogue and many Jewish homes and shops were set ablaze during the riots

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Thursday May 7, 1936

May 7, 2016PostsAmy Johnson, France, Irene Dunne, Popeye, Soviet FlagShanna Vicker

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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Amy Johnson reclaimed her England-to-South Africa flight record when she landed her Percival Gull Six at Cape Town 3 days, 6 hours and 29 minutes after leaving Kent.

At dawn in Washington, D.C. it was discovered that someone had hoisted the flag of the Soviet Union on the flagpole of the United States Supreme Court Building overnight, and had knotted the halyard so well that it could not be hauled down. At the base of the flagpole a copy of The Harvard Lampoon was found, indicating the work of a prankster. Police called in the fire department, who extended a ladder up to the flag and burned it.

Irene Dunne photographed May 7, 1936 for the Lux Radio Theater production of Noel Coward’s Bittersweet

Popeye is looking for spinach

Tuesday March 10, 1936

March 10, 2016PostsFrance, G.O.P., Primary, Rhine, Riots, spitfireShanna Vicker

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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The Spitfire Aircraft flies for the second time

Düsseldorf Residents Greet German Troops during the Occupation of the Rhineland

France increased its military presence along the Maginot Line.

In Granada, Spain, at least seven people were killed during rioting by leftists. In Pamplona, a clash between peasants and soldiers killed four.

The Republican Party presidential primaries began in the United States.

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Mexico Summer: A journal by Elizabeth Carsey

Tag Archives: France

Friday October 22, 1937

Sunday September 12, 1937

Tuesday June 22, 1937

Monday June 21, 1937

Saturday January 23, 1937

Sunday January 10, 1937

Friday September 25, 1936

Thursday June 4, 1936

Thursday May 7, 1936

Tuesday March 10, 1936

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