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
The NAACP wins the landmark case, Gibbs v. Board of Education, against the state of Maryland, ensuring that white and Black teachers are paid equally.
The German battleship Gneisenau was launched.
German media acknowledged the British abdication crisis for the first time when Hans Fritzsche gave an address over the radio explaining that the German press had taken a stance “nobler” than that of foreign newspapers by not reporting on “the private affairs of those concerned.”
Nazi Germany imposed a travel ban on Carl von Ossietzky so he could not go to Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.
General elections were held in Nicaragua. An alliance of the Liberal Nationalist Party and Conservative Nationalist Party claimed 99.83% of the vote.
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The Boston Redskins beat the Giants 14–0 in New York.
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Wallis Simpson left England and boarded a boat for France. Over the next two days Simpson and her entourage drove to 
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