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

Told the family on a card what I had learned.  Yesterday I had a letter from Washington about translator’s position in Civil Service.  I’ve sent in a card to be notified of an examination.  Mrs. Mulroy ate supper with us at the Cafeteria.  The 3 of us saw “Keeper of the Bees” later .  Practiced some shorthand but I am no shark at it.  Saw Bernard at the show.

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

Visitors to the Caterpillar Showroom admiring the 10,000th diesel engine which came off the assembly line on November 13, 1935 in a RD6 Tractor.

The R.P. Resor was built in 1935 by Federal Ship Building Co. in Kearney, New Jersey, she was launched on Saturday, November 13, 1935.  She was sunk by a German Submarine in 1942.   A video of the wreck was recorded 77 years later in 2012.

Nationalists in Egypt launched an uprising against the government.

Chinese former warlord Sun Chuanfang was assassinated by Shi Jianqiao, daughter of a slain military officer, in a revenge killing

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