4/27 Sunday Last night Lillian exploded an aerosol bomb taking everything out of the kitchen. In the morning Eugene and Sylvia helped Lillian bring back, wash and dry the dishes. Eugene especially was delighted to help. Later we went out for lunch to the Chinese Restaurant on Jerome Ave. near Fordham Rd. We had chow mein dinners and the kids had one portion of pot roast but one each of soup, milk and ice cream. Total cost $2.45 + 40¢ tip. Leaving, we took the bus to the Zoo where we saw the elephants eat popcorn, bag and all. At home played Eugene a tough chess game - unfinished each having a strong attack against the other, threatening mate against the other in one or two moves. Lillian and Sylvia played house. Newburyport Mass. merchants have started a small scale price reduction spree after Truman's request. Saskatchewan has outlawed discrimination of any kind.
This is the first mention of that Chinese Restaurant, called, as I remember, the "ABC Restaurant", which we went to often over the years. Always fascinated by the menu with so many things on it, but I don't remember our parents ever ordering anything but chow mein.
4/28 Eugene came home dry today after having had an accident every day last week. We don't know why he had been doing [it] or why he stopped. Perhaps it was the things we offered him if he raised his hand. He told us however he hadn't needed to go today. Sylvia went to "school" but started to cry when school ended without her getting a chance at skipping and jumping. Several more large Corps. fell in with the new wage raise "pattern".
4/29 Last night at work my vaccination "got" me having a headache and chills. Today after lunch felt very tired and got chills again. I went to bed with 100° fever staying home from work. Slept and perspired from some tea and aspirin then got up for supper feeling better. Finished a postponed chess game with Eugene which I barely won then played another in which after I mated him but gave him another chance he mated me. At Sylvia's bedtime she and Lillian gave each other bottles and drops in make believe. Marshall on returning home reported Russia was to blame for the parley's stalemate but held out hope for success. The main disagreement is on what to do with Germany. Russia wants 4 power control of the vital Ruhr with reparations from its industries. Wallace on his return said we are on the road to ruthless imperialism although not yet there. He sees no Soviet aggression in Greece and is against the witch hunt at home. Western telephone strikers rejected a company offer of a $2.50 per week raise. Lillian went shopping around with Pauline P. tonight. We both read "Only Yesterday", F. L. Allan's psychological explanation of the 20's, Lillian also read Mann's "Buddenbrooks" which was merely good. A special session of the UN General Assembly opened with a Comm. chosen [?] headed by D. Aranha of Brazil. The main business will be the Palestine issue. Japanese elections saw the C.P. make a weak showing and Social Democrats gain.
The word "chosen" doesn't make complete sense there, but that's what it looks like.
4/30 Played my first tennis for 1/2 hour with Louise & Mary Keller while Sylvia attended "school" where she played "squirrel in the tree". Eugene asked to see "Cinderella". Gromyko asked for full discussion on the Palestine issue. U.S. & Britain were opposed.
5/1 My birthday and I got pyjamas from Lillian and sets of shorts shirt and socks from the kids. Mama gave me $5 and Lilly brought some candy meanwhile, she said. We all went down to the parade Susan also "powning" and applauding with the others. Eugene drew a picture in class which Mrs. Dwyer hung outside the room. Sam came over to return our bonds. President Aleman of Mexico first of that country to visit here received a tremendous welcome in Washington. The Jewish Agency has been barred from the Palestine hearings at the General Assembly. Telephone workers rejected a settlement by their leaders based on a $4. raise. They are still striking for $6. with renewed spirit. Henry Monsky is dead at 57.
Don't know what "powning" was supposed to be.
5/2 80000 marched yesterday with 5000 C.P. vets in uniform. Sylvia and Eugene tired after an hour or so. We left for home at 5:45 Mama staying till the end then going to the Manhattan Center meeting of the opposition. Lillian has a slight sore throat. Discussion on independence of Palestine was barred at Flushing 24-15 10 abstaining. The "House" voted to continue a weak rent control 204-182. Konrad Bercovici dropped his suit against Charlie Chaplin in which he had claimed to be the inspirer of the "Great Dictator". Chaplin paid him $95,000 for two new scripts one on the Haymarket massacre and one on a gypsy theme. Meany, Green, Lewis, Tobin and Hutchinson [sic] of the A.F.L. met Reuther, Rieve, Potofsky, Fitzgerald and Murray of the C.I.O. in a unity session of 4 1/2 hours.
5/3 We had to punish Eugene about his selfishness. He rarely agrees graciously to do any of the little things Lillian asks of him. Sylvia told me she was a lady killer for a hundred years when we were swapping "Kreuziger" [?] words with each other. Her favorites now are gam, gim, etc. Eugene uses frequently "what in the world" and "in an instant". Lillian has a nose cold. Delegate Austin of the U.S. led the vote for Jews to be barred from an "Assembly" voice but to be heard in the "Political Comm." A.F.L. leaders Wedl, Schindler, O'Donnell were suspended for "May Day" participation. The French gov't is endangered as the C.P. is supporting Renault strikers as against the wage freezing policy. We both read B. Cerf's "Try and Stop Me" reputed to [be] plagiarized from columnists.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
4/24-4/26/47
4/24 Sylvia returned to playground school today. Eugene was the only one on his pond comm. to bring in any info - from his Book of Kn. Wallace in Paris urged a 15 billion dollar loan to Russia. Warden Lawes is dead at 63.
4/25 Lillian saw Mrs. Dwyer who thought very highly of Eugene and was surprised to hear of his lapses. She told Lillian to assure Eugene he could go to the bathroom any time. Lillian took Sylvia to school to register her for the fall term. The Big 4 conference ended in a stalemate in Moscow. Six Nazis were hanged in Prague for the Lidice crime. 600,000 workers put on a stoppage in Detroit and 100,000 listened to Auto union leaders denounce the anti-union drive. 23000 signed T.W.U. cards to be represented by that union in transportation bargaining. Albany banned Robeson. The House Banking Comm. rejected a 10% rent increase 14-10. Willa Cather is dead at 70.
4/26 The kids played in the yard this morning drowning ants and shooting each other. Bobby R. and Gloria and Vivian S. participated. G.M. & Bethlehem Steel signed for 15¢.
These are the first entries in Book III; only three days, since Book II ended mid-week.
4/25 Lillian saw Mrs. Dwyer who thought very highly of Eugene and was surprised to hear of his lapses. She told Lillian to assure Eugene he could go to the bathroom any time. Lillian took Sylvia to school to register her for the fall term. The Big 4 conference ended in a stalemate in Moscow. Six Nazis were hanged in Prague for the Lidice crime. 600,000 workers put on a stoppage in Detroit and 100,000 listened to Auto union leaders denounce the anti-union drive. 23000 signed T.W.U. cards to be represented by that union in transportation bargaining. Albany banned Robeson. The House Banking Comm. rejected a 10% rent increase 14-10. Willa Cather is dead at 70.
4/26 The kids played in the yard this morning drowning ants and shooting each other. Bobby R. and Gloria and Vivian S. participated. G.M. & Bethlehem Steel signed for 15¢.
These are the first entries in Book III; only three days, since Book II ended mid-week.
Deaths (Book II)
3/19/46 H. Glintenkamp
H. H. Richardson
Jung
Largo Caballero
3/26 Vincent Youmans
3/27 Alekhine - killed
3/31 Leon Kobrin
4/3 Noah Beery
4/23 Mae Busch & Lionel Atwill
Interesting to me that he spelled "Mae" correctly this time (wrote "May" on the original entry). But see my note at the end of this section.
5/4 Little Bill Johnston
5/6 Dr. Simon Flexner
5/8 J J Johnston
5/18 Eberhard Faber
5/20 Booth Tarkington
5/24 Henry George Weiss
He didn't write the deaths too clearly, so I've been going back to the date of the diary entry to check the names; found that this one was entered by me as "Henry Bruga Weiss"; now corrected. And, BTW, it seems that the name was really George Henry Weiss.
5/26 Patterson of the "News"
29 Carter Glass
He started writing only the new month, from here on.
6/4 Kalinin
7 Gerhard Hauptmann
10 Sen. Bankhead
11 Jack Johnson
15 Major Bowes; Chas. Butterworth
26 Wm Hart
30 Wanda Gag, Antoinette Perry
Just found out that he's NOT going through the diary for deaths; these two are not mentioned in that day's (or any other day's) diary entry (except that I did take out a book from the library by Wanda Gag).
7/5 Steiglitz [sic]
This one made me check the name; he misspelled it both times, understandable, considering our last name!
11 Sidney Hillman
20 Bogolometz
28 Gertrude Stein
8/9 Tony Lazzeri
8/14 H G Wells
17 D. Bellanca
20 Fielding Yost
9/2 Moriz Rosenthal
20 Stewart Edward White
22 Raimu
25 Jeff Tesreau
10/5 Barney Oldfield - Gifford Pinchot
12 Gen. Stillwell
23 Ernest Thompson Seton
11/9 Gabriel Wells
15 May Sinclair, DE [sic] Falla
19 Jimmy Walker
26 Henry Morgenthau
12/7 Sam Shore
9 Laurette Taylor
11 Damon Runyon, Walter Johnson
16 Lewis Valentine
21 Gene Talmadge
30 Carrie Jacobs Bond
1/2/47 Charles W. Cadman
5 Ogden Reid
12 Eva Tanguay
21 Charles Krumbein
22 Josh Gibson
23 Andrew Volstead
26 Grace Moore
27 Al Capone
30 Jim Larkin
Another example of a death not in a diary entry.
2/1 Johnny Kling
5 Adm. Mitscher
6 Ellen Wilkinson, Hans Fallada
14 Sidney Toler
23 Harry K. Thaw
3/10 Carrie Chapman Catt
18 Jean Richard Bloch
28 John Evers
4/8 Henry Ford
19 Benny Leonard
This was difficult to complete correctly, since the last page apparently fell out, and he pasted it in, covering part of the back cover, on which he had written the last 22 names. So some dates were not visible; I took them from the diary entry.
In addition to the few names which I noted were not in the diary entry, another indication that he was using some other source was that some names were written out differently here than in the diary entry (e.g., Carrie Chapman Catt was Carrie C. Catt in the diary entry; John Evers was Johnny Evers in the diary entry).
H. H. Richardson
Jung
Largo Caballero
3/26 Vincent Youmans
3/27 Alekhine - killed
3/31 Leon Kobrin
4/3 Noah Beery
4/23 Mae Busch & Lionel Atwill
Interesting to me that he spelled "Mae" correctly this time (wrote "May" on the original entry). But see my note at the end of this section.
5/4 Little Bill Johnston
5/6 Dr. Simon Flexner
5/8 J J Johnston
5/18 Eberhard Faber
5/20 Booth Tarkington
5/24 Henry George Weiss
He didn't write the deaths too clearly, so I've been going back to the date of the diary entry to check the names; found that this one was entered by me as "Henry Bruga Weiss"; now corrected. And, BTW, it seems that the name was really George Henry Weiss.
5/26 Patterson of the "News"
29 Carter Glass
He started writing only the new month, from here on.
6/4 Kalinin
7 Gerhard Hauptmann
10 Sen. Bankhead
11 Jack Johnson
15 Major Bowes; Chas. Butterworth
26 Wm Hart
30 Wanda Gag, Antoinette Perry
Just found out that he's NOT going through the diary for deaths; these two are not mentioned in that day's (or any other day's) diary entry (except that I did take out a book from the library by Wanda Gag).
7/5 Steiglitz [sic]
This one made me check the name; he misspelled it both times, understandable, considering our last name!
11 Sidney Hillman
20 Bogolometz
28 Gertrude Stein
8/9 Tony Lazzeri
8/14 H G Wells
17 D. Bellanca
20 Fielding Yost
9/2 Moriz Rosenthal
20 Stewart Edward White
22 Raimu
25 Jeff Tesreau
10/5 Barney Oldfield - Gifford Pinchot
12 Gen. Stillwell
23 Ernest Thompson Seton
11/9 Gabriel Wells
15 May Sinclair, DE [sic] Falla
19 Jimmy Walker
26 Henry Morgenthau
12/7 Sam Shore
9 Laurette Taylor
11 Damon Runyon, Walter Johnson
16 Lewis Valentine
21 Gene Talmadge
30 Carrie Jacobs Bond
1/2/47 Charles W. Cadman
5 Ogden Reid
12 Eva Tanguay
21 Charles Krumbein
22 Josh Gibson
23 Andrew Volstead
26 Grace Moore
27 Al Capone
30 Jim Larkin
Another example of a death not in a diary entry.
2/1 Johnny Kling
5 Adm. Mitscher
6 Ellen Wilkinson, Hans Fallada
14 Sidney Toler
23 Harry K. Thaw
3/10 Carrie Chapman Catt
18 Jean Richard Bloch
28 John Evers
4/8 Henry Ford
19 Benny Leonard
This was difficult to complete correctly, since the last page apparently fell out, and he pasted it in, covering part of the back cover, on which he had written the last 22 names. So some dates were not visible; I took them from the diary entry.
In addition to the few names which I noted were not in the diary entry, another indication that he was using some other source was that some names were written out differently here than in the diary entry (e.g., Carrie Chapman Catt was Carrie C. Catt in the diary entry; John Evers was Johnny Evers in the diary entry).
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Index [Book II]
2/22/46 Uprisings grow in India and Egypt.
Finnish trials result in 2-10 year sentences for Ryti, Tanner, et al.
2/27 Columbia Tenn incident resulting in anti-Negro riots.
2/28 Kuomintang and Red Army sign meger, Miss Quinn whitewashed.
Ford signs $1.40 per hr agreement with Union. P.M.A. leaves A.F.L.
3/2 Vandenberg enunciates the "get tough" policy with Russia.
3/4 Eugene got his first chess lesson.
3/6 Churchill makes his speech calling for an Anti-Soviet crusade.
3/14 G.M. and G.E. strikes settled with 18 1/2¢ per hr. increase.
3/16 Fred Rose arrested on espionage charges.
3/18 LaFollette Progressive Party returns to the Republican Party.
3/20 Mother operated on for hemorrhoid. Shvernik replaces Kalinin.
3/25 First session of the Security Council at "Hunter".
3/26 Peron's election conceded in Argentina.
3/28 Gromyko takes a walk; Reuther defeats Thomas. Soviet Lieut Redin arrested on espionage charges; Black Book of Nazi terror dedicated.
4/1 Van Acker forms Belgian cabinet; Greek elections held despite boycott.
4/3 England gives TransJordan "independence".
4/11 Poland asks action against France at the "Council" meeting.
4/15 Japanese elections result in Conservative victory.
4/20 French Constitution adopted.
4/22 German Socialists and Communists have formed the United Socialist Party in the Soviet Zone.
4/24 Ed Head pitches no-hitter.
4/30 Roxas victory conceded in Philippines.
5/1 Feller hurls no-hitter; Comm. recommends entry of 100,000 Jews in Palestine.
5/6 French Constitution defeated.
5/8 14 yr old sitter Jack Turk acquitted in murder of 3 yr old Sybil Gurfein.
5/14 Eugene has first lovers' quarrel with Gloria Singer.
5/18 Truman seizes railroads.
5/21 Army transport crashes into skyscraper; Truman signs P.O. increase.
5/24 Browder in Moscow; Eugene asks if he could T-I-P (type).
5/26 Truman forces R.R. back to work and proposes strike breaking Bill.
5/28 C.P. leads in Czechoslovakia.
5/30 Coal strikers settle for 18 1/2¢ and improved conditions.
6/4 M.R.P. wins the French elections.
6/6 58 killed 200 injured in worst Chicago hotel fire.
The monarchy was defeated in Italy 12 to 10 million. Chris. Dems led for Constit. Assem.
6/8 Eugene has chicken pox.
6/13 C.P. application to the British Labor Party beated 2 1/2 to 1/2 million.
Bevin makes his anti-semitic remarks.
6/15 Seamen win their strike as Baruch presents his atomic plan.
6/19 Gromyko vetoes the weak Franco resolution.
6/20 Bedault is French Pres as Louis Ko's Conn in the 8th and Sylvia has chicken pox.
6/26 Staten Island fire causes several deaths and $2,000,000 damages.
6/30 Truman vetoes the weak OPA bill.
7/1 Bikini Atoll atom bomb test.
7/4 Philippines received independence; Truman signs Hobbs Bill.
7/5 Kielce pogrom in Poland.
7/10 Sylvia takes a dive.
7/15 Mikhailovitch sentenced to be shot; Aleman wins Mexican presidency.
7/19 Buyers strikes are sweeping the country.
7/22 Rep. May subpoenaed in loan scandal; Large scale civil war in China; Bolivian dictator Villarroel hung and govt overthrown.
7/23 British Army headquarters blown up with scores killed in Palestine.
7/24 Weak OPA bill passed. Heirens confesses dismemberment of 3 yr old Susan Degnan.
7/26 Partition of Palestine broached by England.
7/27 Horrible lynching of four Negroes in Georgia.
7/30 Bedault opens 21 power peace conference in Paris.
8/3 Tennessee vets use arms to beat a political machine.
8/5 Record paid crowd of 74,529 see Yankee Indian game.
8/10 British war against "Illegal Jewish Emigrants is being pressed.
8/11 Senator Bilbo admits he is a Klansman.
8/19 Internecine riots between Muslims and Hindus cause 15000 casualties.
[looked back at the diary at this one; there he says "1000 deaths and 4000 injured" so he probably meant to write "5000".]
8/20 Yugoslavia has shot down two US planes after repeated protests.
8/22 The "Pirates" have voted against the union.
8/30 Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden accepted into the UN.
9/1 Truckers strike settled.
9/2 Terroristic Greek plebiscite returns monarchy.
9/3 Nehru leads new interim gov't in India.
9/4 Bottvinik wins Chess Masters tournament.
9/7 G.G. Videla - Chilean leftist wins Presidency.
9/8 Jack Kramer wins Mens Singles beating Tom Brown.
9/9 Eugene starts 1-B.
9/10 Bulgaria votes Republic.
9/11 English squatters take over empty houses.
9/13 Wallace makes his famous "peace" speech.
9/15 Eugene plays on tennis court for first time.
9/20 Truman fires Wallace in double-cross.
9/25 Stalin calls long peace possible.
9/29 Surprise party for Mom and Pop's fortieth anniversary.
9/30 Cards and Dodgers end season in exact tie for first place.
10/2 11 big Nazis to die; Schacht, Von Papen and Fritsch to go free.
10/4 Cards win pennant in a play off with Dodgers.
10/5 23 of 25 Columbia Tenn. Negroes are freed in historic trial.
10/15 Truman ends meat controls.
10/16 Goering takes poison as ten other Nazis are hung; Cards win World Series in upset from Red-Sox.
10/20 Vets "sit down" in state legislature for housing, education, raises.
10/22 S.D. win election in all Berlin zones.
10/26 Ass't Att'y Gen'l Rogge has been discharged for divulging secret report of Americans connected with Nazis.
10/28 Eugene gets his first glasses.
10/29 Stalin calls Churchill leading warmonger, admits Russia lacks atom bomb.
11/6 Dewey re-elected as Republicans sweep country. Million dollar embezzler caught in Florida.
11/9 First bank strike.
11/11 French C.P. wins election.
11/14 Sylvia goes down alone for first time.
11/19 Jimmy Walker dies.
11/22 400,000 miners out on strike; Left wing wins in Romania.
11/23 Dimitrov is Bulgarian Premier.
11/24 Reshevsky wins American chess championship.
11/30 Lewis & miners in contempt of court as gov't fights to break strike.
12/3 We buy the Book of Knowledge.
12/4 Eugene in 2A
12/5 Mine Union fined $3,500,000. Molotov agrees control & inspection of arms not subject to veto.
12/8 Winecoff Hotel fire 122 killed - 100 injured.
12/10 UN votes to recall all ambassadors from Spain.
12/12 Azerbaijan falls to Iran troops.
12/13 Disaster as 2515 Amsterdam Ave. collapses; Leon Blum is first Premier of the 4th Republic; Eugene breaks his first lens.
12/22 Eugene on skates for first time; Jap. earthquake 1300 killed.
12/24 The Dairen incident; Portal-to-portal pay suits instituted.
12/28 Kramer & Schroeder regain Davis Cup from Australia.
12/30 Progressive Citizens of America born.
1/2/47 Labor Gov't nationalizes mines; Illinois wins Rose Bowl game.
1/5 Americans for Democratic Action born.
1/8 Marshall leaves China and becomes Sec'y of State.
1/14 I go to Dr. Holzman with Eugene and find I have an anal fissure and Eugene virus infection of the chest.
1/16 H. Talmadge "elected" to succeed his father on basis of 675 write-in votes; Gov. Arnall refuses to recognize "coup"; Paraguay C.P. outlawed.
1/21 Gov't bloc wins big victory in Poland.
1/22 Dr. Holzman says Sylvia has thrush.
1/26 Grace Moore killed in plane crash.
1/27 Brazilian C.P. polls million votes.
2/5 Eugene in 2B. Eisler arrested as enemy alien.
2/8 Eugene gets a reader & speller.
2/10 Eugene elected V.P. of his class.
2/11 Sylvia wants to go to Lincoln's Birthday.
2/13 England in rail crisis; 5¢ fare in subway upheld.
2/16 "Columbian" leader gets jail sentence.
2/17 50 killed in worst airplane crash.
2/19 China in crisis, Romania starving.
2/23 Eugene dances with Elaine at Isabel's party.
2/25 Greatest teachers strike in Buffalo.
2/26 Eugene kept in 1/2 hour for lateness.
3/7 Supreme Court upholds information against miners on grounds that since gov't had taken over the mines LaGuardia act doesn't apply.
3/11 Big 4 ministers conference opens in Moscow, Sylvia goes to playground alone.
3/12 Truman inaugurates his reactionary "Truman Doctrine" via Greece & Turkey.
3/20 Yenan falls; Talmadge ousted. French C.P. refuses to support war in IndoChina.
3/23 Eugene beats me in chess; Truman orders purge of reds in Gov't. Lillian gets cold.
3/25 Hearings on outlawing the C.P. begin.
3/26 Called Dr. Marcus for Lillian, who said she had the grippe. 111 miners killed in Centralia blast.
3/31 Eugene gets first report card with A's and B+'s.
4/1 Wallace speaks to 30,000 at the "Garden"; Greek King George dies.
4/6 Eugene gets sick.
4/7 Dr. Holzman says Eugene has a strep throat; Sylvia goes to bed with fever also.
4/8 Eugene quite sick and delirious at night but plays games of chess with me anyhow. His temp down to normal in A.M. Telephone strike starts; Ford dies.
4/9 Dr. Holzman unable to diagnose Sylvia's illness definitely.
4/10 Eugene gets adenitis, a complication resulting from his "strep". Sinatra socks Hearst columnist; Durocher suspended for season. Lilienthal confirmed.
4/11 Jackie Robinson signed by Dodgers. Texas tornado kills 127.
4/15 Both children up and around; Ask for Wallace prosecution.
4/16 Small-pox vaccination for all New Yorkers asked.
4/17 I am in bed all day with bad cough and phlegm; Texas City explosions kill over 500; Dov Gruner and others executed by the British.
4/18 House passes Hartley "slave labor" bill 308-107.
4/19 We are all vaccinated; labor demonstrations begin against anti-labor drive. Benny Leonard dies.
4/23 Greek Turkish Aid Bill passes Senate 67-23.
Finnish trials result in 2-10 year sentences for Ryti, Tanner, et al.
2/27 Columbia Tenn incident resulting in anti-Negro riots.
2/28 Kuomintang and Red Army sign meger, Miss Quinn whitewashed.
Ford signs $1.40 per hr agreement with Union. P.M.A. leaves A.F.L.
3/2 Vandenberg enunciates the "get tough" policy with Russia.
3/4 Eugene got his first chess lesson.
3/6 Churchill makes his speech calling for an Anti-Soviet crusade.
3/14 G.M. and G.E. strikes settled with 18 1/2¢ per hr. increase.
3/16 Fred Rose arrested on espionage charges.
3/18 LaFollette Progressive Party returns to the Republican Party.
3/20 Mother operated on for hemorrhoid. Shvernik replaces Kalinin.
3/25 First session of the Security Council at "Hunter".
3/26 Peron's election conceded in Argentina.
3/28 Gromyko takes a walk; Reuther defeats Thomas. Soviet Lieut Redin arrested on espionage charges; Black Book of Nazi terror dedicated.
4/1 Van Acker forms Belgian cabinet; Greek elections held despite boycott.
4/3 England gives TransJordan "independence".
4/11 Poland asks action against France at the "Council" meeting.
4/15 Japanese elections result in Conservative victory.
4/20 French Constitution adopted.
4/22 German Socialists and Communists have formed the United Socialist Party in the Soviet Zone.
4/24 Ed Head pitches no-hitter.
4/30 Roxas victory conceded in Philippines.
5/1 Feller hurls no-hitter; Comm. recommends entry of 100,000 Jews in Palestine.
5/6 French Constitution defeated.
5/8 14 yr old sitter Jack Turk acquitted in murder of 3 yr old Sybil Gurfein.
5/14 Eugene has first lovers' quarrel with Gloria Singer.
5/18 Truman seizes railroads.
5/21 Army transport crashes into skyscraper; Truman signs P.O. increase.
5/24 Browder in Moscow; Eugene asks if he could T-I-P (type).
5/26 Truman forces R.R. back to work and proposes strike breaking Bill.
5/28 C.P. leads in Czechoslovakia.
5/30 Coal strikers settle for 18 1/2¢ and improved conditions.
6/4 M.R.P. wins the French elections.
6/6 58 killed 200 injured in worst Chicago hotel fire.
The monarchy was defeated in Italy 12 to 10 million. Chris. Dems led for Constit. Assem.
6/8 Eugene has chicken pox.
6/13 C.P. application to the British Labor Party beated 2 1/2 to 1/2 million.
Bevin makes his anti-semitic remarks.
6/15 Seamen win their strike as Baruch presents his atomic plan.
6/19 Gromyko vetoes the weak Franco resolution.
6/20 Bedault is French Pres as Louis Ko's Conn in the 8th and Sylvia has chicken pox.
6/26 Staten Island fire causes several deaths and $2,000,000 damages.
6/30 Truman vetoes the weak OPA bill.
7/1 Bikini Atoll atom bomb test.
7/4 Philippines received independence; Truman signs Hobbs Bill.
7/5 Kielce pogrom in Poland.
7/10 Sylvia takes a dive.
7/15 Mikhailovitch sentenced to be shot; Aleman wins Mexican presidency.
7/19 Buyers strikes are sweeping the country.
7/22 Rep. May subpoenaed in loan scandal; Large scale civil war in China; Bolivian dictator Villarroel hung and govt overthrown.
7/23 British Army headquarters blown up with scores killed in Palestine.
7/24 Weak OPA bill passed. Heirens confesses dismemberment of 3 yr old Susan Degnan.
7/26 Partition of Palestine broached by England.
7/27 Horrible lynching of four Negroes in Georgia.
7/30 Bedault opens 21 power peace conference in Paris.
8/3 Tennessee vets use arms to beat a political machine.
8/5 Record paid crowd of 74,529 see Yankee Indian game.
8/10 British war against "Illegal Jewish Emigrants is being pressed.
8/11 Senator Bilbo admits he is a Klansman.
8/19 Internecine riots between Muslims and Hindus cause 15000 casualties.
[looked back at the diary at this one; there he says "1000 deaths and 4000 injured" so he probably meant to write "5000".]
8/20 Yugoslavia has shot down two US planes after repeated protests.
8/22 The "Pirates" have voted against the union.
8/30 Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden accepted into the UN.
9/1 Truckers strike settled.
9/2 Terroristic Greek plebiscite returns monarchy.
9/3 Nehru leads new interim gov't in India.
9/4 Bottvinik wins Chess Masters tournament.
9/7 G.G. Videla - Chilean leftist wins Presidency.
9/8 Jack Kramer wins Mens Singles beating Tom Brown.
9/9 Eugene starts 1-B.
9/10 Bulgaria votes Republic.
9/11 English squatters take over empty houses.
9/13 Wallace makes his famous "peace" speech.
9/15 Eugene plays on tennis court for first time.
9/20 Truman fires Wallace in double-cross.
9/25 Stalin calls long peace possible.
9/29 Surprise party for Mom and Pop's fortieth anniversary.
9/30 Cards and Dodgers end season in exact tie for first place.
10/2 11 big Nazis to die; Schacht, Von Papen and Fritsch to go free.
10/4 Cards win pennant in a play off with Dodgers.
10/5 23 of 25 Columbia Tenn. Negroes are freed in historic trial.
10/15 Truman ends meat controls.
10/16 Goering takes poison as ten other Nazis are hung; Cards win World Series in upset from Red-Sox.
10/20 Vets "sit down" in state legislature for housing, education, raises.
10/22 S.D. win election in all Berlin zones.
10/26 Ass't Att'y Gen'l Rogge has been discharged for divulging secret report of Americans connected with Nazis.
10/28 Eugene gets his first glasses.
10/29 Stalin calls Churchill leading warmonger, admits Russia lacks atom bomb.
11/6 Dewey re-elected as Republicans sweep country. Million dollar embezzler caught in Florida.
11/9 First bank strike.
11/11 French C.P. wins election.
11/14 Sylvia goes down alone for first time.
11/19 Jimmy Walker dies.
11/22 400,000 miners out on strike; Left wing wins in Romania.
11/23 Dimitrov is Bulgarian Premier.
11/24 Reshevsky wins American chess championship.
11/30 Lewis & miners in contempt of court as gov't fights to break strike.
12/3 We buy the Book of Knowledge.
12/4 Eugene in 2A
12/5 Mine Union fined $3,500,000. Molotov agrees control & inspection of arms not subject to veto.
12/8 Winecoff Hotel fire 122 killed - 100 injured.
12/10 UN votes to recall all ambassadors from Spain.
12/12 Azerbaijan falls to Iran troops.
12/13 Disaster as 2515 Amsterdam Ave. collapses; Leon Blum is first Premier of the 4th Republic; Eugene breaks his first lens.
12/22 Eugene on skates for first time; Jap. earthquake 1300 killed.
12/24 The Dairen incident; Portal-to-portal pay suits instituted.
12/28 Kramer & Schroeder regain Davis Cup from Australia.
12/30 Progressive Citizens of America born.
1/2/47 Labor Gov't nationalizes mines; Illinois wins Rose Bowl game.
1/5 Americans for Democratic Action born.
1/8 Marshall leaves China and becomes Sec'y of State.
1/14 I go to Dr. Holzman with Eugene and find I have an anal fissure and Eugene virus infection of the chest.
1/16 H. Talmadge "elected" to succeed his father on basis of 675 write-in votes; Gov. Arnall refuses to recognize "coup"; Paraguay C.P. outlawed.
1/21 Gov't bloc wins big victory in Poland.
1/22 Dr. Holzman says Sylvia has thrush.
1/26 Grace Moore killed in plane crash.
1/27 Brazilian C.P. polls million votes.
2/5 Eugene in 2B. Eisler arrested as enemy alien.
2/8 Eugene gets a reader & speller.
2/10 Eugene elected V.P. of his class.
2/11 Sylvia wants to go to Lincoln's Birthday.
2/13 England in rail crisis; 5¢ fare in subway upheld.
2/16 "Columbian" leader gets jail sentence.
2/17 50 killed in worst airplane crash.
2/19 China in crisis, Romania starving.
2/23 Eugene dances with Elaine at Isabel's party.
2/25 Greatest teachers strike in Buffalo.
2/26 Eugene kept in 1/2 hour for lateness.
3/7 Supreme Court upholds information against miners on grounds that since gov't had taken over the mines LaGuardia act doesn't apply.
3/11 Big 4 ministers conference opens in Moscow, Sylvia goes to playground alone.
3/12 Truman inaugurates his reactionary "Truman Doctrine" via Greece & Turkey.
3/20 Yenan falls; Talmadge ousted. French C.P. refuses to support war in IndoChina.
3/23 Eugene beats me in chess; Truman orders purge of reds in Gov't. Lillian gets cold.
3/25 Hearings on outlawing the C.P. begin.
3/26 Called Dr. Marcus for Lillian, who said she had the grippe. 111 miners killed in Centralia blast.
3/31 Eugene gets first report card with A's and B+'s.
4/1 Wallace speaks to 30,000 at the "Garden"; Greek King George dies.
4/6 Eugene gets sick.
4/7 Dr. Holzman says Eugene has a strep throat; Sylvia goes to bed with fever also.
4/8 Eugene quite sick and delirious at night but plays games of chess with me anyhow. His temp down to normal in A.M. Telephone strike starts; Ford dies.
4/9 Dr. Holzman unable to diagnose Sylvia's illness definitely.
4/10 Eugene gets adenitis, a complication resulting from his "strep". Sinatra socks Hearst columnist; Durocher suspended for season. Lilienthal confirmed.
4/11 Jackie Robinson signed by Dodgers. Texas tornado kills 127.
4/15 Both children up and around; Ask for Wallace prosecution.
4/16 Small-pox vaccination for all New Yorkers asked.
4/17 I am in bed all day with bad cough and phlegm; Texas City explosions kill over 500; Dov Gruner and others executed by the British.
4/18 House passes Hartley "slave labor" bill 308-107.
4/19 We are all vaccinated; labor demonstrations begin against anti-labor drive. Benny Leonard dies.
4/23 Greek Turkish Aid Bill passes Senate 67-23.
Monday, April 23, 2012
4/20-4/23/47
4/20 Sunday Chess, word games. Trouble with Sylvia at every meal. A bad day so we had to stay in all day.
4/21 Eugene back to school just in time for his reading contract. He was out all last week. I return to work today. Wallace spoke in Norway. The "Big 4" Foreign Ministers in Moscow agreed on Austrian blame for the war. They failed to agree on other points of the Austrian treaty or on Yugoslav claims for Corinthia. A minor Portuguese revolt has been put down. U.S. Steel has agreed to a 15¢ per hour raise. Simon Patino, Bolivian tin plate king is dead in Argentina at 87. King Christian of Denmark is dead. Forty Jewish youths seized the British Consulate here and held a memorial service for the executed Palestinians.
4/22 Eugene has wet himself two days in a row in class apparently because he is afraid to ask Mrs. Dwyer to leave the room. It seems she refuses some children. Sylvia counting beautifully. Egypt has asked the UN to free Palestine. The British occupied zone in Germany gave the S.D. first place. The C.P. got about 10% of the vote. 100,000 Iowans put on an AFL-CIO stoppage against the Hartley Bill. Pres Truman speaking at an A.P. luncheon at the Waldorf again asked for price cuts to avert a slump. The AFL has asked the C.I.O. to meet with it on united action and a merger.
4/23 Playing with Gloria and Sylvia at Casino and tiddledy-winks, Eugene showed himself something of a poor sport when Lillian said he was wrong and Gloria right in a bet they had made. Sylvia made some drawings and asked for pennies as a reward. 75,000 unionists rallied her in Madison Square Park against the anti-labor drive. Among the speakers were Quill, Hollander, Kingdon and Lehman, Krause, telephone strike director. The Greek Turkish Bill passed the Senate 67-23. Reactionaries and liberals were split on both sides. The S.P.-C.P. bloc won in Sicily elections. A British troop team was blown up in Palestine. Dennis & Josephson were cited by the "House" Marcantonio dissenting.
This is the last entry in Book II. except for the Index and Deaths. Those will be the next posts.
4/21 Eugene back to school just in time for his reading contract. He was out all last week. I return to work today. Wallace spoke in Norway. The "Big 4" Foreign Ministers in Moscow agreed on Austrian blame for the war. They failed to agree on other points of the Austrian treaty or on Yugoslav claims for Corinthia. A minor Portuguese revolt has been put down. U.S. Steel has agreed to a 15¢ per hour raise. Simon Patino, Bolivian tin plate king is dead in Argentina at 87. King Christian of Denmark is dead. Forty Jewish youths seized the British Consulate here and held a memorial service for the executed Palestinians.
4/22 Eugene has wet himself two days in a row in class apparently because he is afraid to ask Mrs. Dwyer to leave the room. It seems she refuses some children. Sylvia counting beautifully. Egypt has asked the UN to free Palestine. The British occupied zone in Germany gave the S.D. first place. The C.P. got about 10% of the vote. 100,000 Iowans put on an AFL-CIO stoppage against the Hartley Bill. Pres Truman speaking at an A.P. luncheon at the Waldorf again asked for price cuts to avert a slump. The AFL has asked the C.I.O. to meet with it on united action and a merger.
4/23 Playing with Gloria and Sylvia at Casino and tiddledy-winks, Eugene showed himself something of a poor sport when Lillian said he was wrong and Gloria right in a bet they had made. Sylvia made some drawings and asked for pennies as a reward. 75,000 unionists rallied her in Madison Square Park against the anti-labor drive. Among the speakers were Quill, Hollander, Kingdon and Lehman, Krause, telephone strike director. The Greek Turkish Bill passed the Senate 67-23. Reactionaries and liberals were split on both sides. The S.P.-C.P. bloc won in Sicily elections. A British troop team was blown up in Palestine. Dennis & Josephson were cited by the "House" Marcantonio dissenting.
This is the last entry in Book II. except for the Index and Deaths. Those will be the next posts.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
4/13-4/19/47
4/13 Sunday Eugene's temp normal again, Sylvia's hovering under 100°. We spent the day playing tiddledy [sic] winks, anagrams, Authors, chess, cutting out paper toys. Read "Hamlet".
4/14 The kids both normal today. Sylvia has been putting things in her mouth again while in bed. Eugene has been in our bed all along and Lillian slept sleeping in the cot near him. Sylvia has been in her bed and I sleep in the folding bed near her. Lindbergh has come out for the Truman Doctrine. Senators have begun to attack Wallace's speeches in England. C.I.O. head Murray attacked the Hartley & Taft Anti-labor bills as first real step toward fascism here. Lillian got Eugene a summer jacket in Alexander's - a good buy at $4. but Eugene was more interested in the piano and lamp Lillian got for Sylvia's doll house. She also got me a silk tie - 93¢. Ernie over tonight talking for three hours, aggravating my slight indisposition. I am on vacation for a week.
4/15 Hallelujah! Both kids are up and dressed today and it's a pleasure to hear them squabbling again. Drew for Eugene "Sorcerer's Apprentice" by R. Rostron "Pecos Bill" by J.C. Bowman "Jamaica Johnny" by B&E Hader "The Great Quillow" by James Thurber. The "UnAmerican Comm." called for Wallace's prosecution under the 1799 Logan Act forbidding an American from advising other gov'ts to oppose our gov't. Stalin told the Republican Stassen who is in Moscow that censorship was revived there due to lying correspondents. Eisler was indicted for perjury. The G.M. Electrical division gave the U.E. 15¢ per hour raise - no strike. Lost a chess game to Eugene. The kids got extra portions of chocolate at supper and Sylvia vomited a little - due to a lot of phlegm, Lillian thought.
4/16 The kids O.K. but playing in the house all day due to the bad weather. It is admitted N.A.M. lawyers helped write the Hartley slave labor bill. A few businessmen informed Truman they had reduced prices in accordance with his general request. Marshall saw Stalin but it seems no agreement can be achieved on the German treaty. Eisler has been released on $20,000 bail. Several cases of smallpox have prompted doctors to request every New Yorker to be vaccinated. A temporary injunction barring the arrest of phone strikers under the New Jersey law has been obtained. Opening game of the 1947 season showing sensational rookie Hartung playing his first regular season Major League ballgame and Jackie Robinson first Negro to play Major League ball playing his first game. Nazis de Brinon and Haess have been executed and Father Tiso condemned. Att'y Gen'l Clark called Wallace a liar for saying the U.S.' course is imperialistic. Ball pen manuf'er Milt Reynolds has set a round the world record in his plane of 78 hours 55 1/2 min. Played chess with Eugene. At home after seeing "Counterattack" with Paul Muni I had 101.5° and got plenty of tea and lemon and empirin and vicks. [...]
See scanned in page for the box scores of the two openers. For Hartung, it was the start of a mediocre (at best) career; not so for Robinson, of course.
4/17 In bed all day today for first time since my marriage. 100.2 in the morning, decreasing gradually to 99.2 at night. Lillian tended me beautifully all day. My trouble is a cough which gives me pain and a lot of phlegm. The kids still in the house due to the weather. A ship carrying either nitrate or ammunition blew up destroying a good part of Texas City and killing up to 1200 persons. [Insert] Revised death toll approx. 560. The Monsanto Chemical plant was rased [sic]. Scenes of horror abounded. The execution of Dov Gruner and three other Jews in Palestine brought death threats against British officials.
He says it's the first time in eleven years. He inserted the corrected death toll between the written lines.
4/18 Out of bed today feeling better. We finally got out of the house all together when it looked nice outside during supper. We hurriedly finished and stayed out an hour. Sylvia looked glamorous in the new sweater Lillian made her and her new slacks. Whenever we play chess, as we did tonight Sylvia plays with the captured pieces and we find them under tables or in the sofa. The kids call each other mighty mean names now when they quarrel. Fires and explosions continued in Texas City. General DeGaulle has reentered politics with a new political movement. The House passed the Hartley bill 308-107 even Democrats favoring it 93-84! A new gov't took power in China containing for the first time other Elements but the kuomintang. These are the Young China party and the Social Democratic party and some independent political leaders. The Kuomintang still dominates. Italian demonstraters for food beat Count Sforza.
4/19 This morning for a long walk on the "Concourse" to 182nd st, the kids enjoying the window shopping and light treats. In the afternoon walked to the Kingsbridge Terrace Police Station at 232nd st where we were all vaccinated against smallpox. Then to the nearby playground where Sylvia showed more courage than Eugene on the adult swings. In chess Eugene drove me in one game until he overlooked several pieces. We all finished off with tiddledy winks. Eugene got two argyrol packs. Labor demonstrations are growing against the congressional anti-labor drive. Wallace spoke in Stockholm. The Security Council rejected supervision of the American plan for Greece & Turkey by the UN. U.E. win 15¢ at Westinghouse. Robeson has been barred at Peoria as a radical. Benny Leonard at 51 collapsed and died of a brain hemorrhage while refereeing a boxing match.
I have vivid memories of the vaccination, and I remember that it was in the direction of Kingsbridge Terrace; I didn't remember that it was so far.
4/14 The kids both normal today. Sylvia has been putting things in her mouth again while in bed. Eugene has been in our bed all along and Lillian slept sleeping in the cot near him. Sylvia has been in her bed and I sleep in the folding bed near her. Lindbergh has come out for the Truman Doctrine. Senators have begun to attack Wallace's speeches in England. C.I.O. head Murray attacked the Hartley & Taft Anti-labor bills as first real step toward fascism here. Lillian got Eugene a summer jacket in Alexander's - a good buy at $4. but Eugene was more interested in the piano and lamp Lillian got for Sylvia's doll house. She also got me a silk tie - 93¢. Ernie over tonight talking for three hours, aggravating my slight indisposition. I am on vacation for a week.
4/15 Hallelujah! Both kids are up and dressed today and it's a pleasure to hear them squabbling again. Drew for Eugene "Sorcerer's Apprentice" by R. Rostron "Pecos Bill" by J.C. Bowman "Jamaica Johnny" by B&E Hader "The Great Quillow" by James Thurber. The "UnAmerican Comm." called for Wallace's prosecution under the 1799 Logan Act forbidding an American from advising other gov'ts to oppose our gov't. Stalin told the Republican Stassen who is in Moscow that censorship was revived there due to lying correspondents. Eisler was indicted for perjury. The G.M. Electrical division gave the U.E. 15¢ per hour raise - no strike. Lost a chess game to Eugene. The kids got extra portions of chocolate at supper and Sylvia vomited a little - due to a lot of phlegm, Lillian thought.
4/16 The kids O.K. but playing in the house all day due to the bad weather. It is admitted N.A.M. lawyers helped write the Hartley slave labor bill. A few businessmen informed Truman they had reduced prices in accordance with his general request. Marshall saw Stalin but it seems no agreement can be achieved on the German treaty. Eisler has been released on $20,000 bail. Several cases of smallpox have prompted doctors to request every New Yorker to be vaccinated. A temporary injunction barring the arrest of phone strikers under the New Jersey law has been obtained. Opening game of the 1947 season showing sensational rookie Hartung playing his first regular season Major League ballgame and Jackie Robinson first Negro to play Major League ball playing his first game. Nazis de Brinon and Haess have been executed and Father Tiso condemned. Att'y Gen'l Clark called Wallace a liar for saying the U.S.' course is imperialistic. Ball pen manuf'er Milt Reynolds has set a round the world record in his plane of 78 hours 55 1/2 min. Played chess with Eugene. At home after seeing "Counterattack" with Paul Muni I had 101.5° and got plenty of tea and lemon and empirin and vicks. [...]
See scanned in page for the box scores of the two openers. For Hartung, it was the start of a mediocre (at best) career; not so for Robinson, of course.
4/17 In bed all day today for first time since my marriage. 100.2 in the morning, decreasing gradually to 99.2 at night. Lillian tended me beautifully all day. My trouble is a cough which gives me pain and a lot of phlegm. The kids still in the house due to the weather. A ship carrying either nitrate or ammunition blew up destroying a good part of Texas City and killing up to 1200 persons. [Insert] Revised death toll approx. 560. The Monsanto Chemical plant was rased [sic]. Scenes of horror abounded. The execution of Dov Gruner and three other Jews in Palestine brought death threats against British officials.
He says it's the first time in eleven years. He inserted the corrected death toll between the written lines.
4/18 Out of bed today feeling better. We finally got out of the house all together when it looked nice outside during supper. We hurriedly finished and stayed out an hour. Sylvia looked glamorous in the new sweater Lillian made her and her new slacks. Whenever we play chess, as we did tonight Sylvia plays with the captured pieces and we find them under tables or in the sofa. The kids call each other mighty mean names now when they quarrel. Fires and explosions continued in Texas City. General DeGaulle has reentered politics with a new political movement. The House passed the Hartley bill 308-107 even Democrats favoring it 93-84! A new gov't took power in China containing for the first time other Elements but the kuomintang. These are the Young China party and the Social Democratic party and some independent political leaders. The Kuomintang still dominates. Italian demonstraters for food beat Count Sforza.
4/19 This morning for a long walk on the "Concourse" to 182nd st, the kids enjoying the window shopping and light treats. In the afternoon walked to the Kingsbridge Terrace Police Station at 232nd st where we were all vaccinated against smallpox. Then to the nearby playground where Sylvia showed more courage than Eugene on the adult swings. In chess Eugene drove me in one game until he overlooked several pieces. We all finished off with tiddledy winks. Eugene got two argyrol packs. Labor demonstrations are growing against the congressional anti-labor drive. Wallace spoke in Stockholm. The Security Council rejected supervision of the American plan for Greece & Turkey by the UN. U.E. win 15¢ at Westinghouse. Robeson has been barred at Peoria as a radical. Benny Leonard at 51 collapsed and died of a brain hemorrhage while refereeing a boxing match.
I have vivid memories of the vaccination, and I remember that it was in the direction of Kingsbridge Terrace; I didn't remember that it was so far.
Monday, February 27, 2012
4/6-4/12/47
4/6 Sunday Eugene woke up not feeling well and had 102 1/2 temp. After an enema and other ministrations it went down to 100°. He acted normally. His trouble seemed to be a sore throat or his stomach. Took Sylvia down and she paraded with her doll carriage and her pin wheel. Mom and Pop over later and Eugene started to cry over a stalemate argument in a chess game with Pop. Eugene's temp teetered and he had a bad night.
4/7 Called Dr. Holzman this morning and found Eugene had a strep throat. He had 104° while the doctor was there. Eugene got sulfa powders and Lillian was to sponge him, cold applications to the neck, daily enema, liquid diet, gargle which Eugene failed to do after much fuss privine drops and throat swab with argyrol. Telephone workers of many unions, none CIO or AFL but many affiliated with N.F.T.W. are due to strike at 6 AM today for raises and working conditions after a week of fruitless negotiations. Miners intend to stay out until mines are made safer. A phony expose of Communism has been authorized for printing in 500000 copies by Congress but a book on the Fascist danger has been stalled so far. MacArthur and reactionary Premier Yoshida have declared war on Japanese Communists who are called fascists. Joe Stack has been removed as N.M.U. V.P. by another membership meeting approx. 900-700. Mom came over to help but I stayed home from work. Eugene's temp stayed up all evening. We took Sylvia's temp. at night and she had 103°. Called Dr. Holzman and he advised the same regimen for her except the sulfa (aspirin instead). We had lots of trouble with her on the medication. She finally vomited all over herself and her bed after he throat was swabbed. Jimmy Demaret won the $70,000 Masters Tournament with 281.
4/8 Eugene was quite sick all night Lillian catching him in a slight delirium twice. His temp. however was normal in the morning. Sylvia was just under 100°. Lillian got the kids some toys and Mrs. K. sent in some books following the chocolate Easter bunnies she had sent. Yesterday with his high temp. he insisted on playing a game of chess with me. The kids enjoyed our marching in with their lunch and supper trays singing as we did so. 325,000 telephone workers are on strike. Gromyko at Lake Success asked for economic aid for Greece by the UN instead of our bypassing the UN. Mayor O'Dwyer promised to keep nurseries open during hearings on his record breaking billion dollar budget. Bessie Beatty dead at 61. Chinese Communists attacked American Marines, casualties on both sides included dead and wounded. Henry Ford is dead at 83. Stayed home from work again.
I believe I remember the "delirium" incident; at least I do remember awakening in the middle of the night to see my mother standing at the foot of the bed, and telling me that I had been a bit delirious, apparently talking about things that were not there. Of course, I don't really know if that was this same incident.
4/9 Sylvia temp was 102° this morning so we called Dr. Holzman who came at 9 P.M. He suspected a pyelitis to be verified by her urinalysis. Sylvia had complained during her urinating that it "hotted" her. Played Eugene some chess. Lillian came over with some cut-outs for Sylvia and a book - "King Arthur" for Eugene. Langley Collyer has been found under the debris in his home. Comp. time today.
Aunt Lillian was always good with presents.
4/10 Brought Sylvia's urine report to Dr. Holzman. It was negative. While I was there Lillian called that Eugene's temp - 99.8 at 9AM had risen to 102°. The doctor said he would be over. He came at 6 P.M. He found that Eugene had adenitis an inflammation of the neck glands arising from the throat infection. He had to have the sulfa again and ice bag on his neck - left side. Lillian had to resume most of the other treatments also. He examined Sylvia again and could find nothing yet. He thought something was brewing or perhaps a virus infection. Sylvia has been very active and talkative all day. Her temp. ranged from 100.4 to 100.8 without aspirin. We still march in with the meals, singing, which they enjoy. Eugene insisted on a chess game. Lillian read to the kids. I cut out and pasted pictures together with Sylvia. N.J. passed an anti-strike bill bringing back some phone strikers. Dennis was cited for contempt on two charges. Frankie Sinatra was arrested for "socking" a Hearst writer who has been heckling him in print and called him a "dago" according to Sinatra. Manager Leo Durocher of the Dodgers has been suspended for the entire season for "unbecoming conduct" by Comm. Chandler. The A.F.L. Hotel Union Conference saw gangsterism and murder before and redbaiting and purge of opponents of the administration during the sessions. The Senate confirmed Lilienthal as head of the Atomic Energy Comm. 50-31. Got certificate from Holzman and stayed home again.
4/11 Sylvia's temp. between 99.6 and 100.6 today. Very playful again. Mom and Molly over. She told Molly, Eugene was her man rather than her brother. Eugene's temp 101.6 all day. After midnight he felt normal. The Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson the first Negro to join a major league club. Poland's new western boundaries are again under fire. 5 million Germans have been transferred from the territory in question and Poles resettled there. A tornado in Texas and Oklahoma killed 127 and injured more than 1000 persons. Brought another specimen of Sylvia's urine to Dr. Holzman - negative again. Returned to work today.
4/12 Eugene's temp went down to normal today. Sylvia's ranged up to 101° with nothing visible yet. They were both fairly cheerful. Sylvia's nose was stuffed again. Jersey phone strikers prepared for a show-down with the state's anti-strike law. Union leaders surrendered to the police and were released on bail. The A.F.L. Hotel Union convention put through an anti-communist clause. Anti-communist gangsters in Cuban leaders [?] are shooting up left wing offices in a drive to oust left wing leaders. The British charge that Albania laid mines in the Corfu Straits doing damage to British ships has been sent to the Court of Intern'l Justice by a vote of the Security Council.
I think he meant "in Cuba", and the word "leaders" got put in as he thought of the end of the sentence.
4/7 Called Dr. Holzman this morning and found Eugene had a strep throat. He had 104° while the doctor was there. Eugene got sulfa powders and Lillian was to sponge him, cold applications to the neck, daily enema, liquid diet, gargle which Eugene failed to do after much fuss privine drops and throat swab with argyrol. Telephone workers of many unions, none CIO or AFL but many affiliated with N.F.T.W. are due to strike at 6 AM today for raises and working conditions after a week of fruitless negotiations. Miners intend to stay out until mines are made safer. A phony expose of Communism has been authorized for printing in 500000 copies by Congress but a book on the Fascist danger has been stalled so far. MacArthur and reactionary Premier Yoshida have declared war on Japanese Communists who are called fascists. Joe Stack has been removed as N.M.U. V.P. by another membership meeting approx. 900-700. Mom came over to help but I stayed home from work. Eugene's temp stayed up all evening. We took Sylvia's temp. at night and she had 103°. Called Dr. Holzman and he advised the same regimen for her except the sulfa (aspirin instead). We had lots of trouble with her on the medication. She finally vomited all over herself and her bed after he throat was swabbed. Jimmy Demaret won the $70,000 Masters Tournament with 281.
4/8 Eugene was quite sick all night Lillian catching him in a slight delirium twice. His temp. however was normal in the morning. Sylvia was just under 100°. Lillian got the kids some toys and Mrs. K. sent in some books following the chocolate Easter bunnies she had sent. Yesterday with his high temp. he insisted on playing a game of chess with me. The kids enjoyed our marching in with their lunch and supper trays singing as we did so. 325,000 telephone workers are on strike. Gromyko at Lake Success asked for economic aid for Greece by the UN instead of our bypassing the UN. Mayor O'Dwyer promised to keep nurseries open during hearings on his record breaking billion dollar budget. Bessie Beatty dead at 61. Chinese Communists attacked American Marines, casualties on both sides included dead and wounded. Henry Ford is dead at 83. Stayed home from work again.
I believe I remember the "delirium" incident; at least I do remember awakening in the middle of the night to see my mother standing at the foot of the bed, and telling me that I had been a bit delirious, apparently talking about things that were not there. Of course, I don't really know if that was this same incident.
4/9 Sylvia temp was 102° this morning so we called Dr. Holzman who came at 9 P.M. He suspected a pyelitis to be verified by her urinalysis. Sylvia had complained during her urinating that it "hotted" her. Played Eugene some chess. Lillian came over with some cut-outs for Sylvia and a book - "King Arthur" for Eugene. Langley Collyer has been found under the debris in his home. Comp. time today.
Aunt Lillian was always good with presents.
4/10 Brought Sylvia's urine report to Dr. Holzman. It was negative. While I was there Lillian called that Eugene's temp - 99.8 at 9AM had risen to 102°. The doctor said he would be over. He came at 6 P.M. He found that Eugene had adenitis an inflammation of the neck glands arising from the throat infection. He had to have the sulfa again and ice bag on his neck - left side. Lillian had to resume most of the other treatments also. He examined Sylvia again and could find nothing yet. He thought something was brewing or perhaps a virus infection. Sylvia has been very active and talkative all day. Her temp. ranged from 100.4 to 100.8 without aspirin. We still march in with the meals, singing, which they enjoy. Eugene insisted on a chess game. Lillian read to the kids. I cut out and pasted pictures together with Sylvia. N.J. passed an anti-strike bill bringing back some phone strikers. Dennis was cited for contempt on two charges. Frankie Sinatra was arrested for "socking" a Hearst writer who has been heckling him in print and called him a "dago" according to Sinatra. Manager Leo Durocher of the Dodgers has been suspended for the entire season for "unbecoming conduct" by Comm. Chandler. The A.F.L. Hotel Union Conference saw gangsterism and murder before and redbaiting and purge of opponents of the administration during the sessions. The Senate confirmed Lilienthal as head of the Atomic Energy Comm. 50-31. Got certificate from Holzman and stayed home again.
4/11 Sylvia's temp. between 99.6 and 100.6 today. Very playful again. Mom and Molly over. She told Molly, Eugene was her man rather than her brother. Eugene's temp 101.6 all day. After midnight he felt normal. The Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson the first Negro to join a major league club. Poland's new western boundaries are again under fire. 5 million Germans have been transferred from the territory in question and Poles resettled there. A tornado in Texas and Oklahoma killed 127 and injured more than 1000 persons. Brought another specimen of Sylvia's urine to Dr. Holzman - negative again. Returned to work today.
4/12 Eugene's temp went down to normal today. Sylvia's ranged up to 101° with nothing visible yet. They were both fairly cheerful. Sylvia's nose was stuffed again. Jersey phone strikers prepared for a show-down with the state's anti-strike law. Union leaders surrendered to the police and were released on bail. The A.F.L. Hotel Union convention put through an anti-communist clause. Anti-communist gangsters in Cuban leaders [?] are shooting up left wing offices in a drive to oust left wing leaders. The British charge that Albania laid mines in the Corfu Straits doing damage to British ships has been sent to the Court of Intern'l Justice by a vote of the Security Council.
I think he meant "in Cuba", and the word "leaders" got put in as he thought of the end of the sentence.
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