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Friday May 28, 1937

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.

Woke up about 9:30 – Slept at Mrs. Burl Greyton’s at the camp – Carsey came over and we ate lunch there and left for Midland.  Fairly good road. Saw films at Ben’s and saw a show. Saw Toolen’s at supper. Told them to tell Dad I’d be home tomorrow.  Ben’s children are darlings.  Named for their parents , They are Bennie and Little Dorothy

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The government of Germany–then under the control of Adolf Hitler,  formed a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk.

 

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
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Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when Stanley Baldwin retired. Chamberlain signalled an intention to continue Baldwin’s policies by making very few changes to the cabinet.

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In the final act of the Baldwin government, the London Gazette announced that Wallis Warfield would not be elevated to royal status upon her marriage to the Duke of Windsor, and would only be entitled to be addressed in the forms appropriate to a woman who was married to a duke but was not of royal blood. The ruling also applied to any children she might have with the Duke

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On this day in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while seated in the Oval Office, pressed a golden telegraph button to ceremonially open the Golden Gate Bridge to vehicular traffic.

Image result for may 28, 1937The Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne turn 3.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 28 , 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 28 , 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday May 27, 1937

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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Went to Brownsfield about middle of morning. Lovely ride – Everybody has had lots of rain. Ate lunch in Brownsfield and cleaned up. Carsey came for me at 6.  Went to Lubbock to “look around” and eat supper. Rode down to camp. Got there at 2 a.m.  Carsey is as grand as I’ve ever known him and seems to be glad I came.

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Image result for may 27, 1937The Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco.

Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svgThe Gestapo ordered 200 German Catholic newspapers to shut down for publishing articles critical of Nazi institutions

 

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Amelia Earhart’s poses with an airplane as it’s being built in Burbank ,CA

Chicago Daily Tribune May 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 27, 1937

Friday May 21, 1937

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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Adolf Hitler at Hindenburg's Funeral - AAEE001152 - Rights Managed - Stock Photo - Corbis. Adolf Hitler (lower center, walking) at the state funeral for President Paul von Hindenburg in August 7, 1934. Five days previous, when the President died, Hitler, the Chancellor, declared himself Fuhrer. | Location: Near Hohenstein, Germany.:

The bodies of the 26 German victims of the Hindenburg tragedy arrived in Cuxhaven by ship. A state funeral was held in a local hall.

The Soviet Union established the North Pole-1 station in the Arctic Ocean.

Image result for may 21, 1937A dust storm strikes Clayton, New Mexico.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golden Gate Bridge at night before official opening in San Francisco

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Image result for may 21, 1937The boyscout Jamboree  is underway in Washington D.C.

In the evening,  the Inland Steel employees went on strike in Chicago

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USW Local 1010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 21, 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday May 20, 1937

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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BBC Radio commentator Thomas Woodrooffe went on the air drunk and repeatedly slurred the phrase, “the fleet’s lit up.” as King George VI conducted a fleet review.

 

The Soviet Union executed 44 people as spies for Japan.

Image result for denny shute pga champ 1937Denny Shute won the 20th PGA Championship at Pittsburgh Field Club in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania.

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A Group Of Dwarves At Bucharest’S Train Station

 

 

 

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Image result for may 20, 1937Aviator Amelia Earhart poses next to her Electra plane’s propeller

Educator and Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and husband posing during their wedding.

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 20, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune May 20, 1937

Wednesday April 28, 1937

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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Image result for april 28, 1937The first commercial flight across the Pacific is made as a Pan-American Boeing 314 Clipper seaplane arrives in Hong Kong.

 

 

 

 

 

The Nationalists captured Durango and Guernica.

 

Image result for april 28, 1937Penguin Chorus’ during a preview of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta, in  San Francisco.

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Loggers walk the surface of a log jam on Minnesota’s Littlefork River

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Tuesday April 27, 1937

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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Wallis Simpson‘s divorce became permanent when the mandatory six months elapsed since the divorce decree was issued. The former Mrs. Simpson was now free to marry again.

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Ida May Fuller received the first social security check

The first social security payments were made in the United States under the Social Security Act of 1935

The last symbolic rivet of the Golden Gate Bridge, presented by Charles H. Segerstrom to Joseph Strauss, April 27, 1937 [photograph]The last symbolic rivet of the Golden Gate Bridge is  presented by Charles H. Segerstrom to Joseph Strauss.

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The National Maritime Museum was officially opened by George VI

Chicago Daily Tribune April 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune April 27, 1937

Wednesday February 17, 1937

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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The San Francisco Golden Gate bridge is near completion but today a stripping platform broke away from the structure. 10 died 2 survived.

Residents of the Capitol city try out their skis in Rock Creek Park after the heaviest snow of the year, Washington DC.

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Chicago Daily Tribune February 17, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune February 17, 1937