(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

No post today:

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

An estimated 200,000 people flooded Baton Rouge to witness Huey Long’s funeral procession.

Stock prices climb to a new high.

U.S. officials announced that effective October 15, Germany would lose all tariff reductions granted in reciprocal trade pacts, due to various discriminations against American imports in Germany.

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(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

No post today:

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

Approximately  100 workers started clearing and grading land on Pack Murphy’s farm, beginning the Blue Ridge Parkway’s initial 12.5-mile-stretchfrom the Virginia-North Carolina border south to Cumberland Knob.

British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare spoke before the League of Nations Assembly, affirming Britain’s dedication to the League but asserting that it was conditional on its fellow members doing their share.

In Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new Congress Hall that would accommodate 60,000 people.

 This building would never be completed.

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