Tag Archives: Coronation

Wednesday May 12, 1937

May 13, 2017PostsCoronation, King George VIShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2 by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Took Spanish Club (11 Mexicans, 1 American) to the Lakes, Ate supper at tea house. Everybody had a good time. Now I want to go swimming – don’t want to chaperone any more!

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The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took place at Westminster Abbey in London.

BBC Television made its first outdoor broadcast to cover the king’s coronation procession

Sunday May 9, 1937

May 9, 2017PostsBilbao, Charlie McCarthy, Coronation, NBC Radio, Tripoli Grand PrixShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2

Sent Ty-Ty body powder and artificial dress bouquet for Mother’s Day. Sent Dad hankies tie too! Still I have no hat. Have decided to go to Mexico again this summer and finish toward a Master’s – Last night, Patty, Rosamond, Mary Desarmeaux and Dot her sister, and Lavora, ate supper with all of us and Harriet Poorbaugh. Harriet and Lenore went to the show and we sat around and talked. Ed, Alyce Claire and I took them all back to Dexter and Lake Arthur. I think Margie will marry her Stan Bagwell in Amarillo June 2, though her sister doesn’t want it. Contracts given out. I get 125 next year! Seems small.

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Image result for woman flee bilbao 5,000 women and children began to evacuate Bilbao.

More than 50 were injured in Toulouse when a riot broke out between political factions. The rioting began when rightists paraded to an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc shouting “France for the French”, referring to the allegation that the Popular Front government of Prime Minister Léon Blum took orders from Moscow

Image result for may 9, 1937 grand prix Hermann Lang wins the Tripoli Grand Prix, in Mallaha,at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz W 125.

Image result for may 9, 1937 tribune — Chicago Daily Tribune May 9, 1937

Wednesday May 5, 1937

May 6, 2017PostsCoronation, engagement, May days violence, Mount RushmoreShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2 by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Largo Caballero sent the Guardia de Asalto to Barcelona to put down the May Days violence.

British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pleaded for labour peace ahead of the coronation of George VI as the bus strike threatened to spread

Image result for may 5, 1937 Workers resume work on Abraham Lincoln’s chin at Mount Rushmore, after breaking for winter, South Dakota, Black Hills

Friday March 12, 1937

March 13, 2017PostsCoronation, King George VIShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2 by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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A new King is crowned

Image result for march 12, 1937 — King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on coronation day

Aimo Cajander became Prime Minister of Finland for the third time.

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The U.S. Ambassador to Germany William Dodd protested to German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath about recent attacks on the United States in the German press. Von Neurath said he regretted the violent tone of the articles but did not give a formal reply

Wednesday March 10, 1937

March 10, 2017Postsarmy bomber, Coronation, Jersey Airport, MussoliniShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2 by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, condemning breaches of the Reichskonkordat by the Nazi regime in Germany.

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German and Italian POWs who fought for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War were interviewed in Valencia by a correspondent of the British newspaper The Times. The captured fighters confirmed they were regular soldiers of their country’s army and not civilian volunteers.