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

Decided to take Girls Chorus of the Church beginning Oct. 1st.  If Velma takes her dramatics maybe we can work together!  Saw “Top Hat” with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – Lucy Mae Crow went with me.  Good picture.

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

Louisiana Governor Huey Long died at 6:06 a.m. Eastern Time. Doctors had tried to save him by performing an operation and five blood transfusions, to no avail.

The five-power abritration committee in the Abyssinia Crisis concluded that any further negotiations were pointless.

Riots broke out in Athens as the Greek parliament debated restoring the monarchy.

Nazi Culture Minister Bernhard Rust issued a decree stating that beginning in the spring of 1936, complete racial segregation of German schools must be enforced

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