Daily Archives: January 30, 2017

Saturday January 30, 1937

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.

No post today.

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

 

The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues as the Associated Press reported a total of 333 known deaths across eight U.S. states from the recent flooding. 225 of the deaths were in Kentucky.

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Kentucky

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post 

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Image result for Anti-Soviet Trotskyite CenterThe Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center ended. 13 of the 17 defendants were sentenced to execution by firing squad.

 

 

Its President Roosevelt’s birthday

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Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Cutting The President’s Birthday Cake

Hitler speaks on the fourth anniversary of the Nazi takeover of power. It is  always the occasion for a major Hitler speech.  Here he formally renounced Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles and banned Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes

 

Chicago Daily Tribune January 30, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune January 30, 1937