Monthly Archives: March 2016

Tuesday March 31, 1936

March 31, 2016PostsBaseball, Hindenburg, Riots, San Francisco Bay Bridge, SyriaShanna Vicker

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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The Hindenburg began its first transatlantic crossing

Italians won the Battle of Maychew and achieved complete victory on Ethiopia’s northern front.

Construction continues on the San Francisco Bay Bridge

Baseball returns to downtown Seattle

Syria: History of politics and conflict (1920 - 2013) Riot broke out in Damascus after some nationalists were banished to the desert near Dier- El- zor for allegedly fomenting trouble. As a result a general strike was declared which spread to other parts of Syria.

Monday March 30, 1936

March 30, 2016PostsCatholic Church, Dust, Flood, German, Iran, Time MagazineShanna Vicker

diary 2 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.

I have put my foot in it, perhaps cooked my goose by writing that letter to C. Hinkle. I should have written Mr. Pope (according to Mr. P) and someone has blabbed to the present Spanish Teachers that I want their jobs! What a nice fix I’m in. and to top it all, there is a lovely dust storm outside!

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Catholic Churches re-open in Mexico

Chicago Daily Tribune March 30, 1936 pg11

Idaho Sentar William Borah is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

The Palestine Broadcasting Service was inaugurated.

Iran informed the U.S. State Department that it was closing its diplomatic and consular offices in the country due to treatment of Iranian subjects in the American press.

Essex Yacht Club Building. March 30, 1936 photo of the flood. Building was in the final stage of completion when the waters hit.

Essex Ct. Yacht Club Building. . Building was in the final stage of completion when the waters hit.

Sunday March 29, 1936

March 29, 2016PostsElections, Harar, Hindenburg, Ice storm, naziShanna Vicker

diary 2 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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99 percent of German voters turned out for parliamentary elections. Voters were asked whether they approved of the occupation of the Rhineland and a single party list for the new Reichstag.

In a publicity stunt, a handful of voters were packed aboard the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, which flew above the Rhineland as those aboard cast their ballots.

Two large squadrons of Italian bombers pounded Harar for two and a half hours, setting the city ablaze. Ethiopian Red Cross and Egyptian Red Crescent hospitals were also bombed despite being clearly marked and set off some distance from the city

The cold returns to the North East. An ice storm freezes Alfred, New York

Saturday March 28, 1936

March 28, 2016PostsBorder Patrol, Hitler, New Yorker, Peacock, Saturday Evening Post, Spanish PoliceShanna Vicker

diary 2 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.

Letter from Dit – She weighs 125 and the Dr. says she has just begun! She is going to really gain now! Wrote and mailed a letter to Clarence Hinkle applying for a vacancy in the Spanish Dept here, if it should occur. Went to Vegie Stovall’s for another party with Mr & Mrs Wolfe. Lenore couldn’t go. Had good time as usual. Home a little after one A.M.! Bought white shoes today

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Chief Chemist Walter L. Howell in the New Orleans Customs Laboratory

The U.S. Border Patrol established its Customs Division of Laboratories. Nine laboratories are spread throughout the country, all under the supervision of the Chief, Division of Laboratories at Customs headquarters.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

Adolph Hitler speaks at Cologne.

José Antonio Primo de Rivera was sentenced to two months in prison for insulting the Spanish Chief of Police

Friday March 27, 1936

March 27, 2016PostsDust Bowl, Everybody's old man, Grand National, Irwin Cobb, OklahomaShanna Vicker

diary 2 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.

Lenore and I had waffles for supper at Jewett’s and went to see Irwin Cobb in “Everybody’s Old Man.” Alyce Claire went to Tatum and Lovington to celebrate her Dad’s birthday (which occurred the 21st!).

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Dust is flying in Oklahoma

Chicago Daily Tribune March 27, 1936 pg4

Reynoldstown won the Grand National horse race for the second straight year

Thursday March 26,1936

March 26, 2016Postsdestroyer, Flood, Hindenburg, plane crash, RutgersShanna Vicker

diary 2 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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The floods reach Ohio and a freeze takes root in California

Chicago Daily Tribune March 26, 1936 pg 5

The worst plane crash in Mexican aviation history kills 14 people. Ten of the dead were European tourists, among them Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe and his wife.

Rutgers University Press was founded.

A group of engine mechanics gather on the access catwalk for engine car #3 to watch as the Hindenburg is led from her hangar

USS Drayton DD 366 Launched for the first time. It was Commissioned: September 1 1936

Wednesday March 25, 1936

March 25, 2016PostsFlood, Hitler, Red Cross, Second London Naval TreatyShanna Vicker

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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The flood moves South, but some good news, the Cold Wave settles the dust.

Chicago Daily Tribune March 25, 1936 pg 6

Britain, France and the United States signed the Second London Naval Treaty, limiting tonnage and gun size for each ship category. However, the restrictions were slight and the agreement had many loopholes.

International Committee of the Red Cross President Max Huber went to Rome to discuss an investigation of the Italian bombing of Red Cross units. Italy set its conditions: the question of poison gas would be excluded from any investigation, no Ethiopians could participate and Italy could not appear to be standing trial. Huber left with a promise from Mussolini to respect the Red Cross flag, but nothing more

Tuesday March 24, 1936

March 24, 2016PostsFlood, National Hockey League, Queen MaryShanna Vicker

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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The clean-up begins after the St. Patricks Day flood

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Germany rejected a settlement plan offered by the other four Locarno signatories due to “inequalities”. Hitler said he would offer counterproposals after Sunday’s elections.

The longest game in National Hockey League history was played in Game 1 of a best-of-five semifinal between the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons. After 176 minutes and 30 seconds of play, Detroit’s Mud Bruneteau scored in the sixth period of overtime at 2:25 the next morning to win the game, 1-0.

The RMS Queen Mary ran aground twice at Clydebank, despite the River Clyde having been specially dredged beforehand

Monday March 23, 1936

March 23, 2016PostsFlood, Hitler, Italy, John Hopkins, Mussollini, Red Cross, TimeShanna Vicker

diary 2 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.

Hinkle answered my letter. I shall talk to Mr. Morris before Board Meeting, Mr. Morris was re-elected! Hooray!

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Cots set up in gym. Cots set up in Pratt Gymnasium, Amhurst College – Amhurst, Mass, to house victims of the Great Flood.

Isaiah Bowman, President of John Hopkin’s Univeristy, is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

Mussolini created the National Council of Guilds, representing 23 professional corporations. All large private industries in the country were nationalized.

The League of Nations Committee of Thirteen called upon the International Committee of the Red Cross to supply any information it could offer regarding accusations of Italian troops using poison gas in Ethiopia. The Red Cross denied the request, explaining that the “neutrality which the International Red Cross Committee is bound to observe makes it necessary for the Committee to exercise very great discretion

Sunday March 22, 1936

March 22, 2016PostsCold, Flood, Hitler, homeless, Italy, Jijiga, ZiegfeldShanna Vicker

diary 2 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.

The church was so cold in the morning that my nearly-well cold came right back. Miss Perry evidently went with Mr. Adkin – maybe to El Paso! At night we had church in the basement and I slept all the interim!

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The clean-up begins after the flood waters begin to recede. Ruined garments outside the Joseph Hornes Department Store and a grounded barge on the West End in Pittsburg.

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Italian warplanes bombed Jijiga for more than an hour in the most intense aerial bombardment of the war to date.

The musical drama film The Great Ziegfeld premiered in Los Angeles

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Mexico Summer: A journal by Elizabeth Carsey

Monthly Archives: March 2016

Tuesday March 31, 1936

Monday March 30, 1936

Sunday March 29, 1936

Saturday March 28, 1936

Friday March 27, 1936

Thursday March 26,1936

Wednesday March 25, 1936

Tuesday March 24, 1936

Monday March 23, 1936

Sunday March 22, 1936

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