The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
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Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:
60,000 auto workers striking against Chrysler ended a 17-day work stoppage after a tentative settlement was reached.
William Aberhart’s first cabinet, pictured with him in 1935, remained intact until late in 1936.
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Wrote Mrs. Berkness and Jaime – Played tennis about 1/2 hour but the wind had too much sand in it! Visited with Palmers awhile
Gangster Lucky Luciano is arrested in Hot Springs Arkansas. Shortly afterwards, New York City’s “Racket Buster”, Thomas E. Dewey had him extradited back to Manhattan.
Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play.
The Big Blow Out is released. Porky Pig helps people in the streets in order to get cash quick to buy an ice-cream soda. Meanwhile a mad bomber is terrorizing the city.
On orders from the German Labour Front, industrial workers who did not vote in the March 29 elections were fired from their jobs as “slackers”.