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Sunday April 18, 1937

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

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CIO logo.gifPremier Hepburn threatened to pass legislation to keep the Congress of Industrial Organizations out of Ontario, telling its head John L. Lewis that “he and his gang will never get their greedy paws on Ontario as long as I’m prime minister.”

 

Image result for april 18, 1937Women cooking at the NYA camp in Zarah. Kansas, as the Great Depression continues.

 

 

 

Its opening day at Fenway Park

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Saturday April 4, 1936

diary 2The 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

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Eleanor Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

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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. A new photography exhibition provides a poignant and beautiful retrospective   of London's extinct East End.:
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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”.

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Cambridge won the 88th Boat Race.

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The airship LZ 129 Hindenburg completed its first transatlantic flight, arriving in Rio de Janeiro. From April 6 to 10 it flew back to Germany

Chicago Daily Tribune April 4, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 4, 1936

Saturday February 15, 1936

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

 

Bought blue shoes and looked for materials for suits and dresses.  Gorgeous day – Went to Barbary Coast 1935 poster.jpgVelma’s in afternoon to iron and I stayed for supper.  Alyce Claire went to Dude’s .  Went to see “Barbary Coast”  with Meriam Hopkins, Ed Robinson & Joel Mcrea.  Very Good. letter from Mary Jo about not being able to come up

 

 

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

Rabbis in Poland threatened to organize a strike of the meat industry if the government went through with its plan to abolish the kosher slaughter of animals.

Great Britain won gold in the Olympic ice hockey tournament by playing the United States to a scoreless tie to finish atop the standings.

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Sonja Henie of Norway won gold in ladies’ figure skating in the Winter Olympics.

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One of Al Capone’s buddies, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn,  is killed inside a bowling alley in Chicago.

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 15, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 15, 1936