7/28 Sunday Woodlawn again. Sam and Molly, the Rosenbergs and the Solomons. Lillian made her first drink in the gallon jug. Eugene calls the drink "Jug". Can I have some jug, he'll say. Sylvia puts on a peculiar baby talk jargon these days. Beat Mencher. We are sharing responsibility for Hungary's fantastic inflation, perhaps the worst ever on Russia's reparations progress. Communists are being arrested and others dismissed and repressed in one occupation zone of Bavaria. Dutch C.P. polled most votes in Amsterdam Holland getting 15 seats - same as the Labor Party. Lillian "sat" tonight. Gertrude Stein is dead. Marcel Bernard won the French Singles over the Czech Drobny in 5 sets. Margaret Osborne defeated Pauline Betz for the Women's title in 3 sets. Riding some bumpy spots on a bus, Sylvia said we were on a "flat, bumpily hill". Lillian read Pearl Buck's "The Patriot".
I remember we all called the dring "jug"; perhaps I invented the term. I remember Sylvia's term as "flat and bumply".
7/29 Beat Mencher. Many protest meetings throughout the country are demanding apprehension and conviction of the lynchers. UNRAA rice and sugar is reaching black markets in diverse territories. Thousands of Greeks are in the mountains battling the reactionary gov't. Gene Dennis is the new C.P. Sec'y.
7/30 Another Negro has been killed in Georgia - "in self defense". The Georgia and Federal Bureau of Investigation are working on the mass lynching case. Bedault opened the 21 power peace conference at Paris. Drafts of the proposed treaties for the defeated powers were distributed before the opening. It is disclosed that corporations made "billions" during the war through loop-holes in the laws, laxity and Army lobbying. A delegation of 1000 visited Attorney General Clark demanding apprehension of the Georgia lynchers. The New York Klan has been ordered dissolved. A list of 1100 members gotten by a "spy" will be used for prosecution. Lillian took the kids down to Gansmarks [?] and got me two pairs of slacks.
7/31 Beat Levy. The British have clamped a death curfew on Tel Aviv in seeking the hotel bombers. In Paris, Byrnes affirmed willingness to alter "Big 4" agreements if the 21 nations voted by a 2/3 majority against them. Philadelphia has a day of mourning for the Georgia victims. Another Negro was flogged to death in Mississippi. The guilty person in the mattens-theft [?] has confessed. Six are held. A protest demonstration halted a Korean trial against a counterfeiting ring. Several C.P. members are accused with the building housing the C.P. paper the seat of the ring. The building has other tenants. Rep. Coffee accused of taking a $2500 bribe for securing a million dollar war contract claims a GOP frame up. American marines have been killed in a skirmish with Chinese Communists.
8/1 Sylvia doesn't start crying when she has to go to the toilet anymore, but she always comes over and says "I have to make a "B.M." I'll call you when I finish". The Klan has threatened Negroes in St. Albans and burned crosses in two places near Philadelphia. Another Georgia Negro was killed. A Mad. Sq. Park rally against the lynchers heard Yergan, M. Stern, Williamson, Alors. Veterans will get terminal leave pay in 5 year bonds. The Senate failed to invoke cloture against a filibuster against the Anti-Poll Tax bill 39-33. Thousands rallied at Phelps Dodge strikebound Elizabeth plant against company thugs who shot a strike leader. Had Eugene's bike fixed for $4.50.
Not sure of the names at the rally.
8/2 Eugene took haircut. Pickets are in front of many restaurants which have raised prices. Incidentally many have been fined recently in a Health Dept. campaign against dirty kitchens. Yugoslavia has rejected the "Big 4" proposal on the Italian-Yugo. border at the Paris parley being held in the Luxembourg Palace. 1150 Jews have been rounded up by the British in Tel Aviv in the hunt against the terrorists. Two Negroes claim to be eyewitnesses to the Georgia lynching.
8/3 Sylvia went down to the yard with Eugene this morning voluntarily. Thus another landmark is paved. In Paris the parley is fully open to the press setting a precedent for such conferences. Russia rejected U.S. charges that its policies in Hungary are ruinous. Another Phelps Dodge picket shot, is near death. The Georgia Klan has raided the home of labor leader Mike Ross, Klan opponent. Vets in Tennessee running their own ticket in an election, took over a jail where some of their number had been lodged, in a gun battle and forced an honest ballot count, winning over the corrupt long standing machine. Tobacco workers have won a victory over Reynolds getting an unprecedented 65¢ per hour minimum. Marjory Logan who was raped and shot last week and her mother killed has identified a nearby butler as her assailant. Sylvia has asked several times lately when Lillian is going to work
I take back what I said about "milestone"' Dad had his metaphors consistent (although a little strange).
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.
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