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Saturday October 16, 1937

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

No post today.

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

Several fascist organizations united to form the Hungarian National Socialist Party.

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Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini escaped to Syria before the British could include him among the more than 100 Arab leaders in Palestine they arrested.

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An alcohol test is tested, in Kansas city

A new Saturday Evening PostImage result for october 16, 1937 and New Yorker magazine

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