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Thursday October 21, 1937

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

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

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Children being evacuated  from Gijon

 

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Asturias Offensive

The Asturias Offensive and the War in the North ended in Nationalist victory with the capture of Gijón.

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Francisco Franco

Generalissimo Francisco Franco increased his powers with a decree concentrating all the authority into a new National Council, whose members Franco could appoint and dismiss as he wished. Franco assumed the right to name his own successor as well.

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The Catholic Centre Party in the Free City of Danzig was ordered to dissolve, leaving the Nazi Party as the only party allowed to exist in Danzig.

Image result for october 21, 1937 Howard Hughes’ inspects his Sikorsky S-43 also known as the flying boat

Theawfultruth1937.jpgThe screwball comedy film The Awful Truth starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant was released.

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Monday February 15, 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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Wonthaggi, Australia

 

An underground explosion in a coal mine in Wonthaggi, Australia killed thirteen men.

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11 were reported dead in flooding around southern Los Angeles

His eminence Dennis Joseph Dougherty is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Victims of the Ohio River Flood line up for food.

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The last Opel bicycle is produced
Chicago Daily Tribune February 15,1937 pg 10
Chicago Daily Tribune February 15,1937 pg 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune February 15, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune February 15, 1937

Saturday January 23, 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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Stalin (left) pictured with Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in 1925. He would have the three men in the picture shot during his show trials.

The second Moscow Trial began. 17 lesser communist leaders known as the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center were charged with an anti-Stalin conspiracy.

 

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The entire Japanese cabinet resigned due to a split between military leaders and anti-military political parties in the National Diet who thought that the army had too much influence over the government

 

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Italian dictator Benito MUSSOLINI, bare-chested, gets ready to ski with his son Romano

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine

 

 

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Lima, Ohio during the great flood of 1937

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Chicago Daily Tribune January 23, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune January 23, 1937

Monday October 26, 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.diary 2

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin responded to rumors that he was dead by releasing a handwritten note that read: “I know from reports of the foreign press that I long ago abandoned this sinful world and moved into the other world. As one cannot doubt such foreign press dispatches unless he wants to be expelled from the list of civilized people, I request you to believe them and don’t disturb me in the calm of the other world. With respect, J. Stalin

 

 

Thomas Perran Jr is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation

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Chicago Daily Tribune October 26, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 26, 1936

Thursday October 22, 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.diary 2

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Drapeau de Rex.svgThe Belgian Rexist Party announced its intention to march on Brussels in a conscious imitation of Mussolini’s March on Rome in order to “sweep out the Paul van Zeeland government and its corruption” despite a government order banning the march. Van Zeeland made a national radio address that evening appealing for calm and announcing measures that amounted to martial law.

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General José Miaja was put in charge of the defence of Madrid.

The British press continued to tiptoe around the Edward VIII abdication crisis. London publication The News Week wrote that “the effects of the unofficial censorship have been disastrous, giving the impression abroad that there is something to hide.” The weekly publication Cavalcade, which had been running articles about the king and his friendship with Mrs. Simpson for weeks, ran a short notice of Simpson’s divorce suit and mentioned that thousands of words had been published in the United States about it. The Guardian ran an article about the possibility of the king’s coronation being postponed but avoided any direct explanation for why a postponement might take place

Image result for october 22, 1936The Mint Museum opens in North Carolina.

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune October 22, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 22, 1936

Tuesday January 28, 1936

diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary,  written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Letter from Dit –  says she is sure of the stork’s planned arrival – has some pillowcases and a bib laid up against the day!  She is sure starting soon!  Got a notice that I hadn’t paid for Correct English but I’m telling them I have. King George died last Monday night.

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The funeral of George V was held. Britain observed 2 minutes of silence at 1:30 p.m. as he was interred at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

The publication in Pravda of the article titled “Chaos Instead of Music” signaled Stalin’s displeasure with Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and led to the composer’s “redemption” in his Symphony No. 4

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 28, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 28, 1936