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Thursday September 23, 1937

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Letter from Arnold asking about Lavora’s car as though he really wants it!  Sure thrills me – Plan to go to El Paso with Arnold in our car on Oct 8th. Got paid Wednesday and I discovered I owe Mr. Morris for room rent for May! Blush, Blush!

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The New York Yankees won the American League pennant when the Detroit Tigers were eliminated in a 4–3 loss to the Boston Red Sox.

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Benito Mussolini‘s second son Vittorio arrived in the United States to study filmmaking methods in Hollywood with the producer Hal Roach.

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Jack O’Brien one of the few confirmed participants on the show

 

The professional wrestling event known as the EMLL 4th Anniversary Show took place in Mexico City.

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Friday August 20, 1937

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by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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diary 2At 8:30 AM Arnold called and I dressed in a hurry to start sightseeing – He met me in the lobby looking like a million in a white suit – Went to breakfast, then to Breckenridge.  Had limeddes in the Japanese Sunken Gardens – Saw “Easy Living” at the Majestic. Packed – made house plans in the hotel rooms. Left Dallas at eleven

 

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In Shanghai, an anti-aircraft shell landed on the deck of the heavy cruiser USS Augusta and exploded, killing 1 American sailor and wounding 18

Image result for august 20, 1937Dixie Bibb Graves takes her seat in the Senate, she was a First Lady from the state of Alabama, and the first woman United States Senator from Alabama

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A tri-engined SAVOIA-MARCHETTI airplane is  checked out before its departure from Istres (near Marseilles) to Damascus, Syrai. The two pilots are the sons of Benito Mussolini.

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Tuesday May 25, 1937

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Carsey called me from Andrews about going home by there. I’ve decided to go to Broomsfield with Alyce Claire and have him come up there and take me to Midland to see Ben!  I wanted to tallk to him so badly but was afraid to talk over 3 min-

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The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) opened in Paris.

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Mickey Cochran

Detroit Tigers star Mickey Cochrane suffered a career-ending, near-fatal injury when he was hit by a beanball pitched by Bump Hadley of the New York Yankees.

An editorial in Mussolini’s Il Popolo d’Italia warned the Jews of Italy to cease making criticisms of Germany, because such opposition was “irreconcilable with the friendship that binds us to Germany and which has objectives far more vast and fundamental than the Jewish question.

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The Steam locomotive ‘Coronation’ being cheered by workers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thursday April 22, 1937

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Benito Mussolini hosted Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg in Venice. Mussolini explained that since the Rome-Berlin Axis had been formed, Schuschnigg could no longer count on Italian military support if Hitler made a move against Austria

 

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Thursday March 18, 1937

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New London School explosion: A natural gas explosion destroyed a school in New London, Texas and killed at least 295 people. It remains the worst school disaster in American history.

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Arabs in Tripoli presented Mussolini with the “Sword of Islam” to symbolize his leadership and present him as a protector of the Muslim faith. A famous propaganda photo depicts Mussolini on horseback raising this sword above his head.

Republicans took Brihuega

BYGONE - 031717Just 36 days after the Mississippi River stood at a record 48.7 feet in Memphis on Feb. 10, the Chisca sat on a sandbar near Tunica

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Inside the Hindenburg Airship. Interior corridor of the passenger cabin.

 

 

 

 

 

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Amelia Earhart wears a lei upon arrival at Wheeler Field, Oahu, from California

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Wednesday March 10, 1937

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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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Airport Journals

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.

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Benito Mussolini sailed for Libya to conduct an inspection tour and review the Italian fleet.

 

 

 

Jersey Airport opened in the Channel Islands.

 

 

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New Army Bomber arrives at Bolling Field. Washington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday February 22, 1937 (Holiday!)

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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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Shopped a little – Went to Juarez with Jaime – Got some guaraches. Ate lunch with Virginia. Left at one for Roswell!  Arrived Roswell usual time. No excitement anywhere!   Brought punkin’s picture back with me – everybody raves over it!

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Mussolini decreed that any native chieftain or officer who opposed Italian colonial troops, even in territory as yet unoccupied, would be put to death

The Nizam of Hyderabad is on the cover of this weeks Time magazine.

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It’s Derby Day at Santa Anna

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Ecker Hill, Utah during the first US Ski Jumping Championship

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Saturday February 6, 1937

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The Battle of Jarama began.

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Benito Mussolini‘s 20-year-old son Vittorio married Orsola Buvoli in Rome. About 1,000 people stood in the rain outside the church to view the comings and goings

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New York’s Central Park is covered in snow

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Saturday January 23, 1937

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Stalin (left) pictured with Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in 1925. He would have the three men in the picture shot during his show trials.

The second Moscow Trial began. 17 lesser communist leaders known as the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center were charged with an anti-Stalin conspiracy.

 

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The entire Japanese cabinet resigned due to a split between military leaders and anti-military political parties in the National Diet who thought that the army had too much influence over the government

 

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Italian dictator Benito MUSSOLINI, bare-chested, gets ready to ski with his son Romano

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Lima, Ohio during the great flood of 1937

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Sunday November 1, 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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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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Chicago Sunday Tribune November 1, 1936
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