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Thursday December 2, 1937

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Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg and Nora Gregor were married in Vienna.

Image result for manchukuoManchukuo and the Franco regime exchanged documents granting each other formal recognition.

Yoke and Arrows.svgIn Burgos, the National Council of the FET was ceremonially sworn in. The new governing body was modeled after the Grand Council of Fascism in Italy.

 

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The Brewster F2A Buffalo takes flight

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The Logan Daily News from Logan, Ohio on December 2, 1937 Page 1

 

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Wednesday June 30, 1937

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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.

We arrived late everywhere – At Guerrero I asked about opals and was besieged with agate and poor opals.   They were not happy when I bought nothing!!

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and Ethel du Pont were married in Wilmington, Delaware in the American society wedding of the decade.

German Reichminister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl decreed state control of Protestant church funds. The government now controlled all aspects of the churches’ financial activities, right down to ministers’ salaries.

Portugal stopped co-operating with the Non-Intervention Committee patrol agreement and ordered British observers off its soil.

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The emergency number 999 was introduced in the United Kingdom, the first emergency telephone number of its kind in the world

Chicago Daily Tribune June 30, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 30, 1937
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Saturday June 26, 1937

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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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Image result for mary pickford weddingMary Pickford and Charles “Buddy” Rogers were married in a simple ceremony in Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

 

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 26, 1937

 

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Thursday June 3,1937

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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.

Got chiffon ruching  on morning mail! A record I say! Helped dad mend roof on back porch and bath but I don’t think it helped  much. Also helped (?) him fix a light over the door of the Annex. Had postponed party for May birthdays until tonight. my partner was the new chiropractor Dr. Bernard Walker. Very Nice

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The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield (Simpson) were married at the Château de Candé in Monts, France.

Dizzy Dean refused to sign a letter of apology and threatened to sue Ford Frick for $250,000

 

 

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Tuesday May 18, 1937

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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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The wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield was set for June 3 at the Château de Candé in Monts, France.

 

 

Outgoing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made the last significant speech of his time in office, in which he asked the youth of Britain to guard against the threats of fascism and communism and said that the League of Nations was of “doubtful” value.

 

 

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Archbishop of Chicago George Mundelein made the paper hanger speech, attacking “malicious” Nazi propaganda against the Catholic church. Mundelein called Joseph Goebbels “crooked” and referred to Adolf Hitler as “an Austrian paper-hanger, and a poor one at that, I am told

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Italy celebrates birth of Empire: Musselini, King Victor Emmanuel

 

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Saturday April 3, 1937

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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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Manchukuan Prince Pujie and Hiro Saga were married in a simple Shinto ceremony in Tokyo

 

Image result for april 3, 1937An editorial cartoon from the April 3, 1937 issue of the Philippines Free Press

 

 

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Image result for april 3, 1937Captain Frank Hawks new Speed Plane flying over Manhattans financial district and Battery Park, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The French Ambassador and Mme. Georges Bonnett pictured as they attended the Ball of Nations in Washington D.C.

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Saturday March 27, 1937

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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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A decree by Hermann Göring was published declaring that anyone who owned land Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13805, Hermann Göring.jpgsuitable for agriculture was obligated to cultivate it. Landowners who did not comply would be forced to lease part or all of their property to an approved expert

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African-American singer Marian Anderson reading to a group of children
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Daphne and Stanley Green were married in Norfolk
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Wednesday January 27, 1937

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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.

Letter from Carsey saying he has the flu and won’t be able to come next Saturday – Darn!  I surely hope it isn’t serious but I am disappointed in his not being able to come – At the meeting tonight Mr. Deaton asked me to be a chairman .  Report card day. My room averages were low!

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The great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues the river gauge reached 57 feet (17 m) in the Louisville area, setting a new record. Seventy percent of the city was under water at that time

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The engineer looks out over a 10 mile pond of the Ohio River
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St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church – Cincinnati, Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Greta Garbo 1935

The 1935 salaries of Hollywood movie stars were made public as part of a Congressional study on salaries paid by corporations. Greta Garbo topped the list at $332,500 ($5,824,987.41 in 2016 with inflation,) followed by Wallace Beery ($278,749), Joan Crawford ($241,403), William Powell ($238,750) and Clark Gable ($211,553).

 

The Duke of Norfolk married Lavinia Mary Strutt at Brompton Oratory in London. 5,000 women jostled each other and fought police outside the venue in an effort to get a glimpse of the proceedings

Chicago Daily Tribune January 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune January 27, 1937
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Monday November 9, 1936

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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.

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Koco Kotta.jpgKostaq Kota became Prime Minister of Albania for the second time.

Four masked men stole the Wallace Sword from the Wallace Monument in Scotland.

 

 

The Premier of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine

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John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie were wed in Yuma, Arizona a few minutes after midnight.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. and Valentine v. United States.

Chicago Daily Tribune November 9, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune November 9, 1936
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Thursday April 16, 1936

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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.

Rosa Alyce Davis is reported to have run away from home – not seen since yesterday afternoon!  However, she was found at 10-none the worse.  P.T.A. and Pope and Shinkle talked on curriculum.  Found rates and time for going to El Paso

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The Bever Hat Ceremony kicks off the spring shipping season in Toronto

The Italian government ordered its citizens to stop requesting permission to adopt Ethiopian babies

Princess Alice of Bourbon Parma and Spanish Infante Alfonso, nephew of King of Spain Alfonso XIII posing for the photographers on their wedding day

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune April 16, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 16, 1936
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