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Monday October 11, 1937

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

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Arnold ate lunch with me.  We got my picture proofs.  He selected his and met Mrs. Morris.  I almost wept when he left but I couldn’t go to school that way!  Surely, hated to see him off without me! How is it that I love him now so much more than just last week, but I do! Charlotte missed school and we went to see her and stayed for the  “usual” coffee and home-made bread. Delicious!

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

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The Duke of Windsor and his wife began a visit to Nazi Germany, arriving in Berlin by train from Paris. The duke was taken on a tour of a factory by German Labour Front leader Robert Ley.

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Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne began their second visit to Nazi Germany. Over the next two weeks Colonel Lindbergh would be shown the Focke-WulfHenschel and Daimler-Benz factories and permitted to examine the Dornier Do 17 bomber and Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Ex parte Levitt.

Justice William O Douglas is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Friday September 28, 1934

No post today.  She takes up her pen again tomorrow to let us know what is going on 80-years-ago in Roswell NM.

Also 80-years-ago -even after a 2-year investigation the nation was still thouroughly compelled by the Lindberg case.   Law enforcement went to Germany and searched the suspects child-hood home.

The Winwick rail crash killed 11 people in Cheshire, England.

Limerick defeated Dublin in the rematch of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final.

The Dublin newspaper strike ended after ten weeks