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Monday November 2, 1936

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Returned Markhauls car, which we used for the trip, washed, greased and full of gas, besides giving Mr. M 3 pairs of sox.  Nize man!

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BBC Television Service, Britain’s first television station, was launched.

The current logo of CBC/Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was launched.

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Robert Rutherford McCormick and  Joseph Medill Patterson are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Sunday November 1, 1936

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Started home about 9:30 – Picked up Charlotte at Dick and Thelma’s. Stopped at Marioite to see Gomez and at Estancia for lunch with Mrs. Annie Dean – Lovely people.  Got home before seven

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Speaking to a crowd in Milan, Benito Mussolini coins the name “Axis” for Italy and its allies when he states that the “line between Rome and Berlin is not a partition but rather an axis around which all European states…can also collaborate.”

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Television available int he US today.

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Friday October 30, 1936

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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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Spanish meeting in the morning with Dr . Kirchville, Dr. Cauysa and Prof. Renolledo on the program!  The latter is one of the nicest looking Mexicans I ever saw!  Muy Simpatico!  Spanish program given by Albuquerque – Shopped in the afternoon – Mardi Gras at night on Carlisle Gym.a Danced mostly with Harry Mulroy, Mr. Griffith and Dick Morgan also one.  Dick fed me the most beautiful line!  Never saw a cuter fellow!

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The Condor Legion, German bomber wing, was created.

 

 

The French cabinet and air ministry  approved a plan to add 1,500 fighter planes to raise the size of its air force to 4,000.

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Antonita Arquès of the Spanish Republic won the 8th annual Miss Europe pageant.

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English aviator James Mollison after landing in Croydon,  Already the record holder in transatlantic flights, he had just successfully achieved his third record, flying from New York to Croydon.

 

 

 

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Tuesday October 27, 1936

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Barry Faulkner’s constitution mural at the National Archives is finished.

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A judge in Ipswich granted Wallis Simpson a divorce from her husband Ernest, on the grounds that he had been unfaithful. She would be free to marry again after six months.British newspaper The Guardian reported the story but buried it on page 10

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Tuesday October 13, 1936

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

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18-year-old Margie Fraser died in a hospital in her hometown of Helena, Montana from complications of a botched abortion.

 

Uruguay barred “common transgressors, rogues, drug fiends, vagabonds, customary drunks and persons expelled from other nations” from entering the country.

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Sunday October 11, 1936

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

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Members of the Arab Higher Committee,

The Arab Higher Committee announced an end to the 175-day-old Palestinian general strike.

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The plain red flag is often used at socialist or communist rallies

 

 

200 fascists instigated a new wave of violence in London’s East End, attacking Jews and smashing and looting the windows of Jewish shops until they were dispersed by police.

10,000 leftists participated in an anti-Fascist demonstration in Victoria Park, London, with 5,000 police on hand. 50 Fascist youths attempted a rush to snatch a red flag and some people were slashed with razors

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Friday October 9, 1936

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

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Boulder Dam began generating electricity and Tens of thousands of people jammed the parade route on Broadway in Los Angeles as the street became ablaze with light

 

The European committee on neutrality in the Spanish Civil War met in London with representatives of 27 nations present. Many accusations were flung back and forth but no concrete proposals on how to resolve them were offered, and the meeting adjourned with no date set for another meeting.

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650 fighters of the International Brigades arrived at Alicante.

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Hindenburg over The Travelers Tower Hartford, Conn
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Sunday September 27, 1936

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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.

Sent check to Accident Ins – rainy and cold all day.  I am taking cold too.  Saw “To Mary – With Love” again .  It surely is good.  Wrote notes to Pauline, Mary Jo, Dit and Van Horn.  Letter from Ty-Ty that it has rained there. Charlotte gave me another good manicure.

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British authorities arrested 120 suspects in the Lewis Yelland Andrews murder.

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Italy signed on to the Nyon accords

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Friday September 11, 1936

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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.

Ate tacos for supper at Martens.  Played Tripoli afterwards, nine of us.

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As part of ceremonies at the World Power Conference, President Roosevelt pressed a golden key in Washington, D.C. to put a small 3,500 horsepower generator into service for Boulder Dam and Boulder City, Nevada.

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Due to the belief that sunlight promoted health, students on Madison Street in Albany New York went to school in a greenhouse.

The Supreme Electoral Council, the predecessor of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, was founded.

 

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The musical play Careless Rapture by Ivor Novello and Christopher Hassall premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London

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Thursday August 27, 1936

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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

The luncheon was lovely – Other guests were Melrose Robinson, Marjorie Erwin, Wanda Howard and Lois Tendrick.  After lunch Mrs. Miller (hostess of the hotel) took Image result for good housekeeping 1936 augustus to the penthouse on the 18th floor. It is furnished like the rooms on the colored paper of Good Housekeeping – simple yet expensive.  3 rooms, bath and kitchenette complete plus terrace with shrubs and printed iron furniture. Rents for only  $250.00 a month*.  We tried all the chairs!  We sat in the upstairs lounge and talked until three.

*$250.00 is $4328.18 today.

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Britain and France asked 17 nations to declare arms embargoes against Spain.

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The musical comedy film Swing Time starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers premiered in New York City

 

The last Birney  cable car ran in Illinois.

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Chicago Daily Tribune August 27, 1936
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