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Saturday July 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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San Angel Inn

I washed my hair and it took until noon to dry even though it was a sunny morning!  In the PM we went to San Angel. It was raining hard before we got off the street car so we made a dash for the convent and stayed until it stopped.  Saw the mummies n everything and bought some pictures. A little boy took us to the Pedrazal and the Cuarto del Secreto but it was so wet around the latter that we didn’t try it out.  Went to San Angel Inn and Jean treated me to some coffee.   We had chocolate.  She took some pictures of Convent patio and of D. Rivera’s house.  At supper Ruiz’s were eating out and Arturo & Luz Maria came over and talked to us of ranch life.

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Round Little photo.jpgDorothy Round Little of the United Kingdom defeated Jadwiga Jędrzejowska of Poland in the ladies’ singles final at Wimbledon.

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The Marine Parkway Bridge (now the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge) opened in Brooklyn, New York.

A gas mask drill takes place in Leningrad

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Friday July 2, 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.

Went to school at 10:30 and registered. Saw Frances. Met Elda Springer who has been here a week and sick most of the time!  Poor child, We took her to show her rooms and she decided on 46 Naranjo just around the corner from school. Must mail the letter to the bank. The note for $150 was waiting for me when I arrived!  Jean Crawford (Colo Springs) has decided to stay with me here so we moved upstairs tonight. Saw “Rayado Del Sol” at the Palacio de Bellas Artes by Roberto Sosto. The most gorgeous elaborate settings I ever saw as a background for native songs and dance from Jalio, Michoacan and the penninsula.  The colors were so vivid that my eyes began aching before it was over! I am taking 4 courses = Mex Lit with Junez Ruida, Latin Literature under Pimentel, Educ Problems in Mexico under Palma and Commerce between Span-Am and US under Durand. Sounds interesting and I have nothing at eight 0 clock!  We get cute little folders containing our picture on the registration card. Mrs. Ruiz is learning, or rather studying, Eng.  He has been to class twice!  but speaks it rather well at that.  We have fun talking both languages at the table.

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The Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific.

Image result for Holditch Colliery disasterThe Holditch Colliery disaster killed 30 men in Chesterton, Staffordshire, England.

 

 

 

Don Budge of the United States defeated Gottfried von Cramm of Germany in the gentlemen’s singles final at Wimbledon

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Monday June 28, 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.

 

 

 

Arrived in San Antonio about 8:30 – From Kernville to S.A. the hrs just flew!  Got a room at the St. Anthony. Had left my hat and gloves at St. Anthony’s was grand.  Air conditioned and everyone nice.  Bill only $3.45!

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Georges Bonnet

The new French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet addressed the country’s financial crisis by closing the stock market and suspending all commercial payments in gold and foreign currencies until further notice.

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The Soviet Union executed 36 more people for spying

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Ethel Du Pont & Franklin Roosevelt Jr. are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.

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Fritz Wiessner leading the first technical climb of Devil’s Tower Wyoming

 

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Simone Mathieu (France) at Wimbledon

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in Darwin, Australia

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Thursday June 24, 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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Paul Robeson made an important speech on the Spanish Civil War at the Royal Albert Hall in London during a benefit to raise funds for Basque refugee children. “There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers”, Robeson said. “The liberation of Spain from the oppression of fascist reactionaries is not a private matter of the Spaniards, but the common cause of all advanced and progressive humanity.”

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The 8th imperial Conference

The 8th Imperial Conference ended.

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Liechtenstein added a crown to its national flag so it would no longer be identical to the flag of Haiti.

Image result for june 24, 1937Tennis Franjo Kukuljevi in Wimbledon

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Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E Special, NR16020, being fueled at Batavia (now, Jakarta), Java, Dutch East Indie
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Monday June 21, 1937

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Leon Blum

Léon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France when the Senate refused to give him special powers to deal with the country’s financial crisis.

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Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey ordered 4,500 National Guardsmen to Youngstown.

The Wimbledon Championships were televised for the first time, on BBC Television.

Dr Morris Fishbein is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The Cole Bros Circus arrives in Montreal

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Buffalo is flooding.

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Saturday July 4, 1936

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Coney Island Fourth of July Celebration

The League of Nations Council voted to end economic sanctions against Italy.

Helen Hull Jacobs of the United States defeated Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling of Germany to win the Ladies’ Singles title at Wimbledon

 

 

 

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Friday July 3, 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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Slovak Jewish journalist Stefan Lux committed suicide in the General Assembly of the League of Nations by shooting himself in the chest. He left behind a note explaining that his act was carried out to draw attention to the plight of Jews in Germany.

 

Remington Rand strike: A four-day riot began between strikers and replacement workers at a plant in Middletown, Ohio.

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Fred Perry of the United Kingdom beat Gottfried von Cramm of Germany in straight sets to win the Gentlemen’s Singles title at Wimbledon. Perry was the first Wimbledon champion to win three consecutive men’s titles since Tony Wilding won four straight in 1910-13

 

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