Index [Book I]

2/5/45 Eugene starts kindergarden. We take Manila.
2/7 First meeting of World Labor Parley at London
2/8 Churchill Roosevelt & Stalin announce plan for total victory
2/9 A.D.A. report decries preponderance of Jewish dentists. Pierlot government forced out in Belgium
2/10 Poll Tax repealed in Georgia
2/14 Henrietta Szold dies
2/18 We take Bataan
3/8 Ives Quinn Anti-Bias bill passed in N.Y.
3/17 Hottest March 16 ever yesterday 76°
3/19 Groza gov't replaces Radescu in Romania
3/28 Eugene has acute sinusitis
4/1 Susan Gail Thaw born
4/2 Eugene has pneumonia
4/5 Russians denounce non-agression pact with Japan.
4/12 Roosevelt dies.
4/19 Ernie Pyle killed. Prestes freed.
4/22 Red Army enters Berlin
4/25 World Security conference starts at San Francisco
4/27 U.S. and Red Armies meet at Torgau
4/29 Mussolini captured and executed by partisans
5/1 Argentina seated at World Security Conference
5/2 Hitler's death announced. Russians take Berlin.
5/6 World Federation of Trade Unions formed
5/8 V.E. day
5/10 Goering captured
5/25 Himmler takes poison. Duclos criticizes Browder's liquidations
6/8 Critics of State Dep't Japanese policy arrested on a pretext
6/11 We pay first carfare for Eugene
6/13 Anti-Poll Tax bill passes House. Eugene gets silver star for reciting poetry.
6/19 Eisenhower day in N.Y. Trial of 16 Poles for sabotage starts in Mosc. Harry Bridges deportation voided by Supreme Court
6/20 Parri forms new Italian government
6/23 We leave for Lawrence's Farm in Divine Corners for Summer
6/25 All nations sign United Nation's charter
6/26 New Polish gov't formed
7/2 Byrnes replaces Stettinius as Secretary of State
7/3 Newspaper deliverers start 15 day strike
7/4 President signs P.O. reclassification bill [note - this isn't in the journal on that date, or, I think, any other]
7/11 Eugene has attack of diarrhea on farm
7/14 Sylvia has grippe developing into mumps
7/17 Stalin Churchill Truman meeting starts at Potsdam
7/27 Attlee Prime Minister as Labor Party wins British elections
7/28 C.P. is re-formed
9/29 Racial strikes are going on in midwest and NY City [note - this gap of a month occurred between the bottom of one page and the top of the next. I would guess he did the next page after a break, and misread the date he left off.]
9/30 Cubs win Pennant
10/1 Chiang and Mao agree on a Political Council; Tigers win pennant. 50,000 participate in a Zionist rally in the "Garden"
10/2 Hazel Scott barred from Constitution Hall. Eugene starts injections
10/3 Foreign ministers parley fails. Patton is discharged.
10/9 Laval sentenced to death
10/10 Voulgaris gov't resigns
10/11 Tigers beat Cubs in World Series;
10/19 24 leading Nazis indicted; longshoremen's strike ends; Peron back
10/20 A negro lynched in Florida; Venezuelan gov't overthrown
10/22 French communists gain the most seats in the Assembly
10/24 Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson for their Montreal Club.
10/25 Over 200,000 protest the Labor Gov'ts continued closing of Palestine
10/28 We have a party for Sylvia's birthday
10/29 Civil war begins again in China
11/1 Lillian starts doing home-typing
11/3 Canellopoulos forms a new Greek gov't
11/5 Labor-management parley opens
11/6 O'Dwyer elected Mayor
11/16 Mrs. Lyston says we should be proud of Eugene
11/26 Lillian has the grippe as the Parri gov't falls in Italy
11/28 Gen Marshall appointed special envoy to China. 16 children killed in bus [accident] [paper is torn, I'm guessing at the last word]
11/29 First Int'l Womens Congress opens in Paris
12/8 4 1/2 Billion loan to Britain floated
12/11 DeGasperi forms a gov't in Italy
12/15 Minissters of the "Big 3" meet in Moscow
12/21 Gen Patton dies of his automobile accident injuries
12/25 Milton returns from Army; Spellman and 31 others made Cardinal
12/29 Dreiser dies
1/3/46 Gen. Fred. Morgan charges Jews are "plotting" to leave Europe
1/4 Dr. Holzman diagnoses slight sinus infection for Sylvia
1/7 G.I demonstrations start against demobilization overseas
1/9 Western Union struck
1/11 Spaak is President of UNO Assembly; Mrs. Lyston praises Eugene highly
1/12 Truce announced in China
1/16 200,000 U.E. workers strike G.E., Westinghouse, and G.M.
1/17 300,000 meat packers strike
1/25 Radar contact established with the moon
1/26 Lewis back in the A.F.L.
[there appear to be two more index entries on this page, but the page is so torn at the bottom as to be unreadable. The remaining index entries are actually written on the inside of the back cover.]
2/5 3500 Tugmen strike
2/6 Eugene enters 1A
2/7 Greek dispute initiated by USSR has been shelved by UNO
2/10 Stalin announces tremendous production drive; F.E.P.C. Bill killed by filibuster
2/12 City closed down for one day due to tugboat strike
2/14 Ickes resigns. Browder expelled. UNO rejects Indonesian probe
2/16 US Steel signs 18 1/2¢ raise. $5. ton price rise
2/18 Much talk of Soviet spies ferreting out atom bomb secrets
2/19 Christian Socialists win Belgian election C.P. gains; Sylvia calls.




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