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Leave El Paso at one- got to Roswell at 7
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At 8 p.m. one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States began as autoworkers occupied the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in Flint, Michigan
The famous debate between Jack Benny and Fred Allen over a violin was started.
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.
Last night there was a party at the annex and we played “Hookey” They took it fairly well after they caught on – went to El Paso today and heard the El Paso Symphony with a sporano soloist tonight – Very nice program. They didn’t play any of my particular favorites but did as well as I’d ever heard them.
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The Battle of Lopera ended in Nationalist victory.
Spain released the Palos but held part of the cargo
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In response to the Palos incident, Germany dispatched a fleet of torpedo boats to protect German shipping in the Bay of Biscay region
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The Battle of Lopera began.
United Airlines Trip 34: A United Air Lines Boeing 247 crashed into a hill south of Newhall, California during rainy weather, killing all 12 aboard.
The Spanish government decided to hold the Palos despite a German threat of reprisals.
Mahatma Gandhi emerged from two years of silence to make a political speech. He cryptically said, “Show me the way and I am prepared to return to gaol. I am prepared to be hanged. If you do all I want you to do, the Viceroy will say: ‘I am wrong – I thought you people were terrorists, and if you like we Britishers will return by the next steamer.’ We would then say to Lord Linlithgow and the British: ‘India is big enough to hold you and more like you.’ That is my Swaraj.” Gandhi denied that his speech indicated that he was returning to public life.
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.
Back to Van Horn- Many cards there waiting for us and I had a letter from Carsey, He wants me to go on Thursday instead of Friday. Dad doesn’t seem to object as I thought he would.
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In New York, the first contingent of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade secretly departed aboard the Normandie to fight for the Republicans in Spain.
George Orwell arrived in Barcelona with the intention of writing journalistic reports for the foreign press, but what he saw inspired him to join a leftist militia to fight against fascism. Orwell later collected his experiences into the book Homage to Catalonia
A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
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.
Mary Jo and I fooled around in Juarez. Went to church, where service 
was going on, and to the market. She got a gift or two! That night we all saw “College Holiday“- Fair. Very good Christmas Day!
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The Xi’an Incident ended when Chiang Kai-shek was released.
A new Popeye he is In The Army Now
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.
Went to El Paso with the family. Mary Jo had gotten in Sunday night –
Saw “A Woman Rebels” with K. Hepburn. Had Christmas Eve as Christmas because Jaime had to work at 7 the next morning. The baby is precious! Such beautiful delicate coloring! Dit n Harold gave me a Mexican hand-carved wooden monk that I love!
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The Villarreal Offensive ended in Republican failure.
Miguel Mariano Gómez was impeached as President of Cuba by a senatorial vote of 22 to 12. Federico Laredo Brú became the new president, but army commander-in-chief Fulgencio Batista was acknowledged to be the country’s real de facto ruler.
Pope Pius XI delivered his annual Christmas message from his sickbed. The pope called the Spanish Civil War “a new menace more threatening than ever before for the whole world and principally for Europe and Christian civilization.”
A Spanish coast guard cutter seized the German merchant ship Palos on suspicion of carrying contraband material
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Left for Van Horn with Mr. Mulroy – Got there about 1 or 2
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The first troops of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie arrived in Cádiz to aid the Nationalists.
The Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace ended.
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Radio station 2CH’s Children’s Christmas party, Trocadero,Paris.
Man looks out over the Hudson River and NYC from within the framework of the George Washington Bridge
An abandoned coal camp on Scott’s Run, West Virginia,
Egyptian parliament ratified the Anglo-Egyptian treaty.
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Cuban President Miguel Mariano Gómez vetoed a bill that would have introduced an army-sponsored 9-cent tax on each bag of sugar to fund the construction of rural schools run by the military. Gómez explained in his veto message that it was “the duty of the educational and not the military institutions” to teach Cuban children. Opponents of Gómez immediately began impeachment proceedings against him, accusing the president of trying to unconstitutionally force congress to defeat the tax bill as well as embezzling public funds.
The Junkers Ju 88 had its first flight.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.. It involved principles of both governmental regulation of business and the supremacy of the executive branch of the federal government to conduct foreign affairs.
Edward Johnson is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
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