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Monday September 13, 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:

 

 

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The Battle of Xinkou began.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler decreed that Jews could be released from “protective custody” in concentration camps if they provided evidence that they were emigrating.[

Japanese forces captured Datong.

The Chinese government made a formal appeal to the League of Nations to take action against Japan.

In his final address on the closing day of the Nuremberg Rally, Hitler declared that the failure of Franco’s Nationalists would “upset the balance of power in Europe, which is of vital importance to Germany.”

 

 

German Tennis player Gottfried von Gramm   is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Kitty Keene aired for the first time on NBC Red Network.

Group of American Legion Secretaries Typing. New York City

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Friday September 3, 1937

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

No post today:

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

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Congress of Industrial Organizations leader John L. Lewis gave a radio address broadcast across the United States in which he attacked the Roosevelt Administration for professing impartiality in the country’s labor disputes instead of supporting the workers. Lewis brought up the prospect of creating a farmer-labor third party movement.

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Another Soviet merchant ship, the Blagoev, was attacked near Greece and sunk in the Mediterranean.

The Japanese army detachment using 38 artillery NAGase transformation in the horse factory on the east side of railway line China army shelling Xiao Wang zhuang.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept, 3, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept, 3, 1937

 

Alice Marble competes in  the U.S. National Championships—now known as the U.S. Open

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