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Thursday December 24, 1936

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.

Went to El Paso with the family. Mary Jo had gotten in Sunday night – Saw “A Woman Rebels” with K. Hepburn.  Had Christmas Eve as Christmas because Jaime had to work at 7 the next morning.   The baby is precious!  Such beautiful delicate coloring!  Dit n Harold gave me a Mexican hand-carved wooden monk that I love!

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The Villarreal Offensive ended in Republican failure.

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Miguel Mariano Gómez

Miguel Mariano Gómez was impeached as President of Cuba by a senatorial vote of 22 to 12. Federico Laredo Brú became the new president, but army commander-in-chief Fulgencio Batista was acknowledged to be the country’s real de facto ruler.

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Pope Pius XI delivered his annual Christmas message from his sickbed. The pope called the Spanish Civil War “a new menace more threatening than ever before for the whole world and principally for Europe and Christian civilization.”

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A Spanish coast guard cutter seized the German merchant ship Palos on suspicion of carrying contraband material

Chicago Daily Tribuen December 24 1936
Chicago Daily Tribuen December 24 1936

 

 

Monday December 21, 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.

No post today.

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

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Miguel Mariano Gómez

Cuban President Miguel Mariano Gómez vetoed a bill that would have introduced an army-sponsored 9-cent tax on each bag of sugar to fund the construction of rural schools run by the military. Gómez explained in his veto message that it was “the duty of the educational and not the military institutions” to teach Cuban children. Opponents of Gómez immediately began impeachment proceedings against him, accusing the president of trying to unconstitutionally force congress to defeat the tax bill as well as embezzling public funds.

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The Junkers Ju 88 had its first flight.

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp..  It involved principles of both governmental regulation of business and the supremacy of the executive branch of the federal government to conduct foreign affairs.

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Edward Johnson is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Chicago Daily Tribune December 21, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune December 21, 1936