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Thursday April 9, 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.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide if the constitution allows the government to monitor private wire transfers

Chicago Daily Tribune April 9, 1936 pg 1
Chicago Daily Tribune April 9, 1936 pg 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President F.D. Roosevelt tours the tornado damage at Gainesville, Ga. See his remarks here.

 

Bennett Cerf and Sylvia Sidney
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Sylvia Sidney and Bennett Cerf were divorced in Los Angeles court

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune April 9, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 9, 1936

Monday March 16, 1936

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.

Dressed for school but after I got there Mr. V said he could get me a sub.  So I fixed my lesson plans and came home! Felt good to lie down and to know I could stay there all day! Mrs. Grady brought me dinner and supper.

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

Martin Clement is on the cover of Time Magazine.

TIME Magazine Cover: Martin W. Clement -- Mar. 16, 1936

Popeyeeugene.jpgThe character Eugene the Jeep first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre (later known as Popeye after the strip’s best-known character).

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wisconsin v. Michigan.2nd Class: 18 years

The Wehrmacht Long Service Award was established in Nazi Germany.

Hitler introduced the swastika as the national flag of Germany.

The temperature rises today and heavy rain begins to fall.  The flood waters begin to rise.

Pittsburg,Pa
Chicago Daily Tribune March 16, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 16, 1936

 

Thursday March 12, 1936

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.

No post today

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

March 12,1936. People gathered at the Main Street Bridge in Pawtucket to watch the river rise. The spring thaw and two days of rain had swollen rivers all over New England, and that night they would overflow their banks in many places.:

People gathered at the Main Street Bridge in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to watch the river rise.

 

 

 

 

Britain, France, Belgium and Italy (the signatories of the Locarno Treaties besides Germany) formally protested the German government’s renunciation of the Locarno Pact. The League of Nations also noted it as a violation of international law.

Germany threatened to enter a state of “honourable isolation” and increase its military presence in the Rhineland if France and Belgium continued to mass troops on their eastern borders

Chicago Daily Tribune March 12, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 12, 1936