(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

No Post today:

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

Seattle is decked out for the holidays.

 

 

 

 

 

Construction begins on the Grand Coulee Dam.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford was found not guilty of manslaughter in a case of careless driving.^[This was the last time a trial of peers in the House of Lords was held, since that privilege of peerage was abolished in 1948.

 

King Fuad restored the Egyptian Constitution of 1923.

 

 

 

 

 

The Lebensborn organization was established in Nazi Germany.

In an effort to deny them citizenship, Judge John Knight of the U.S. District Court in Buffalo, New York, denied three Mexicans’ petitions for naturalization because they had a “strain of Indian blood.” Click here for more on this story.