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Monday January 11, 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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Nearly two weeks into a sit-down strike by General Motors (GM) auto workers at the Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, a riot breaks out when police try to prevent the strikers from receiving food deliveries from supporters on the outside.

Nebraska Senator George Norris is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Image result for january 11, 1937 hitlerAdolf Hitler assured France that Germany had no intention of seizing Morocco.

The United States invalidated all passports to Spain.

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The first issue of Look magazine went on sale in the United States.

Chicago Daily Tribune January 11, 1937
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Sunday January 10, 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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France massed troops in French Morocco and threatened to occupy the Spanish side if the Nationalists refused to quickly oust the Germans reported in the territory. France feared that Germany was building up troops there under the guise of “volunteers” in preparation for a surprise attack on French Morocco.

The Spanish government ordered an evacuation of all citizens remaining in Madrid.

Britain warned its citizens that anyone volunteering to fight for either side in the Spanish Civil War would be subject to prosecution under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870

 

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Mahatma GANDHI (center) with Pandit Jawaharlal NEHRU, presiding over the opening of the National Hindu Congress

Flood warning are issued over the Ohio River region.

Chicago Sunday Tribune Jan 10, 1937
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Saturday January 9, 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.

Bought blue dress at Merritts and slip for $10.  Send Coca Cola and Doubleday Doran (El Eco) bills of $1 and $4 resp.  Very wet and cold weather.  Alyce Claire insists that Carsey was here today in a company car and that he could stay only 30 minutes or so. He never did find me because we went several places in town. Seems too much like imagination that he was here at all.   Surely hated to miss him!

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The debate over gun control begins in Washington D.C after NRA Secretary -Treasurer C. B Lister called for prohibiting the private sale of a “freak” class of weapon – the Magnum Handgun. 

 

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Italy banned interracial marriage in its African colonies.

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People’s Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union

Russia’s Leon Trotsky arrived in Mexico

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

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Friday January 8, 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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President Roosevelt signed an amendment to the Neutrality Act to establish an embargo on the shipment of weapons to Spain. His signature came too late to stop the vessel Mar Cantabrico, which had already left New York with just such a cargo.

 

In Seatle a crowded municipal streetcar plunges from the Spokane Street trestle over West Seattle’s Avalon Ravine, killing two passengers and injuring 59.

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Thursday January 7, 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.

Letter from Carsey asking me to go over to Hobbs tomorrow for a game with Roswell but it seems unwise. No one is going anyway but the team!

 

Tuesday night

Dear Miss Lancaster:

Since you left nothing has happened worth writing about, and more than anything else, I have been readjusting myself to Hobbs without Elizabeth.  Tho you only stayed a few days, I became accustomed to being with  you.

I could write a couple of pages of flattering things they said about you in the office and around, besides of course, the old joke that always comes. I liked what Mrs. Roper said best of all.  She said that she liked to have you at the house because you were at ease and seemed at home.  Both Tom and his wife were insistent that I bring you back sometime.

Hobbs High School is to play Roswell in basketball next Friday night.  Why not come up with somebody?  If you can, we’ll eat at Masters or somewhere & see the game that night.

I think you owe me a picture of yourself since I didn’t get to take a picture of you when you were here.  I still have the films unexposed.

After I left you Saturday night, I curled up in the back seat of Pete’s car and went to sleep and was not awakened until he opened the care door at Dixie’s house in Hobbs.  Even then I was still asleep and in a kind of daze in the restaurant where we went to eat a piece of pie.  So I was not very tired the next day as I thought I might be.  However, I couldn’t get you off my mind all day yesterday and only to a certain extent today for some reason.

Our camp tennis court is complete now, with the best back stop I ever say in one, and if you come up again sometime, we can play tennis on it. The caliche that they spread over the court, however, is not so good in my opinion.  The back stop is 20 feet high, and extends all round (it is more than a back stop isn’t it!)

This is an empty letter! Nothing has happened, And besides that, Wayne King is on and I can’t think.

So until another time, Iam.

     Yours, 

    No. 461-05-9381

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Princess Juliana of the Netherlands married Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld at The Hague

Jack Benny, Mary Livingston. George Burns, and Gracie Allen walk the red carpet. January 7, 1937.
Jack Benny, Mary Livingston. George Burns, and Gracie Allen walk the red carpet.
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Wednesday January 6, 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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FranklinU.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress. “The statute of NRA has been outlawed”, the president said. “The problems have not. They are still with us.” Roosevelt said that means “must be found to adapt our legal forms and our judicial interpretation to the actual present national needs of the largest progressive democracy in the modern world.”

The U.S. Congress strictly forbade the export of arms to Spain.

The Soviet Census of 1937 was held.

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USCG John C. Spencer and Alexander Hamilton being christened at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday January 4, 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.

Carsey’s gift was in the P.O. this am.  A tiny bottle of perfume and a white and gold compact! Am so proud of both of them!  Slow day at school!!

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Coat of arms of Lebanon.svgFrance restored the Constitution of Lebanon after it had been suspended for a number of years.

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided De Jonge v. Oregon.

Wallis Simpson is  Time Magazine‘s person of the year.

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President Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt are seen up Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C.

Chicago Daily Tribune January 4, 1937
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Sunday January 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.

Went to the Methodist Church with Carsey and Roy Marcone. Poor sermon – rode around after dinner until time to go. Visited the office where Carsey works in the Inventory Dept.  Left for Roswell about Camille 2.jpg 3:30. Stopped  at Caprock or somewhere for a sandwich and more coffee.  Got to R about 8. All four of us. Pete, Dixie Smith, Carsey and I saw “Camillle” fair only – good spots.  They left to go back about eleven! Surely hope they got home in time to go to bed in time to get up for work!  Carsey was wonderful to me the whole week-end paid me lots of complements – He used to be so silent and absentminded. He still is absent-minded to a degree but I never laughed anymore or had more fun on any week – and party before!  Hope he can come over real soon!

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The Spanish Republican government called Germany’s recent naval actions “acts of aggression and war.” Germany sent a note offering to release the Aragon and cease attacks on Spanish shipping as soon as restitution was made for the cargo of the Palos not being fully returned. This proposal was rejected.

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During the Second Battle of the Corunna Road, the Nationalists captured Villafranca del Castillo west of Madrid.

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In China, 128 drug addicts were taken to a village near Tianjin and executed by firing squad.

Chicago Daily Tribune January 3, 1937
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Saturday January 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.

Had waffles for breakfast at Roper’s – Just stuffed!  Went to Monument – visited tanks, saw a well drilled, pipe lines laid etc. After the Thin Man Poster Missed Eunice – went to Walter Famori’s after looking for the place 2 hours!  I got a mixing bowl for a prize!  Do they ever tease each other!  Had good time – went to midnight matniee – saw “After the Thin Man” very good.

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Great Britain and Italy signed a “gentleman’s agreement” pledging to mutually respect one another’s rights and interests in the Mediterranean as well as Spain’s independence and integrity

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Chicago Daily Tribune January 2, 1937
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