9/22 Sunday Took the kids down. Sylvia rode her kiddy car and Eugene his bike. Wallace is out as a speaker in the election campaign. Raimu is dead.
9/23 Averill Harriman is the new Sec'y of Commerce. Byrnes is reputed to have asked for Wallace's ouster. British marines attacked a Jewish refugee ship killing one and injuring a score. Big purge in Soviet farm system.
9/24 Sears Roebuck came with a magic skin doll for Sylvia. Father Stepinac, head of Yugoslav Catholics will stand trial as a war criminal. The Anti-Lynch Crusade led by Paul Robeson failed to get satisfaction from Pres Truman in Washington. 19 shipbuilding firms made $350,000,000 war time profits. A Negro witness at the Tennessee trial told of police beating and intimidation. British Arthur Deakin replaced Citrine as the WFTU president.
9/25 Stalin, in an interview saw a long peace possible, asked for American troop withdrawal from China and minimized the potency of the atom bomb. Dutch workers struck in protest against troop shipments to Indonesia. G L Mueller, President of the Independent Power Workers Union in Pittsburgh was sentenced to a year in jail for his part in the Pittsburgh power strike. An anti-strike injunction had been granted. A Soviet proposal to have UN members list numbers and dispositions of troops in non-enemy countries was defeated. We saw tonight: "Our Hearts Were Growing Up" with Brian Donlevy and "The Searching Winds" with Robert Young and Sylvia Sydney.Our indifference and blindness to the rise of Fascism. Jeff Tesreau is dead at 57.
9/26 Visited Harry Goodes today at a gathering to honor Izzy Goodes recent marriage. Saw Hymie Goode also who will be married in November. The kids had a good time. At night Julie and Ida Kurtz came over. The Pittsburgh "Power" strike committee is threatened with jail sentences unless they call off the strike. Labor is rallying against this repression by injunction. Greek Civil war is raging. Brotherhood of Railway Carmen failed to rescind their "White only" clause by a narrow margin. No. 40 for Eugene - Nevada.
The Goode's (or, perhaps, Goodes's ?) were relatives, I'm sure, from memory, but I don't know their connection. I remember being told that I should be proud that Richard Goode played the piano at my Bar Mitzvah. Wikipedia says he is 3 1/2 years younger than me, and born in the East Bronx. I wonder if the third sentence was "no pun intended"! Also don't know the Kurtz's.
9/27 Eugene helps Sylvia to dress in the morning and they both surprise Mommy. The kids love to stop at "Little White House" and get an orange or grape drink. Eugene drew "Third Reader" by Free and Treadwell, "Swift Thunder of the Prairie" by L. Maloy and "The Lion-Hearted Kitten" by Peggy Bacon. Yugoslavia and Albania are charged with helping anti-monarchists fight the Greek terror. The Pittsburgh injunction was dissolved and Mueller freed from jail due to the united fight of labor. W. F. Dunne has been expelled. The Tennessee police head admitted illegal arrests at the Columbia Negro trial. Intimidation of defence [sic] lawyers continues.
9/28 Meat is at an all time low due to manipulations of the big trusts who wish to abolish all ceilings. King George returned to Greece amid disorders. The A&P was fined $175,000 for violation of anti-trust laws. Phelps Dodge striker Mario Russo is dead from wounds inflicted by a thug during the strike a month ago. He was buried with the greatest honors in the labor movement as a martyr. The Shipbuilding Union convention saw the "right" again victorious over left wing opposition. Tony Zale Ko'd Rocky Graziano in the 6th round before 30000 at the Yankee Stadium to retain his title in a great see-saw fight.
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.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
9/15-9/21/46
9/15 Sunday Beat Emanuel. Lillian went to the cemetery in the morning. We spent the afternoon at St. James. Eugene got on an (asphalt) tennis court for the first time using an old raquet [sic] of ours. Later we bought the kids a jelly apple of which they took alternate bites. Truman has repudiated Wallace's "peace" speech. We beat Sweden in the Davis Cup 5-0. Parker, Kramer, Talbert Mulloy.
St. James had three rows of courts; two rows of clay courts, and one of asphalt. Dad always looked askance at the asphalt; he never played on that that I can remember.
9/16 Beat Al Levitt. Rallies supported London squatters.
9/17 Lillian is getting over her cold but Eugene is out of school with a little temperature. Beat Levy. Ryan is urging his longshoremen to pass NMU picket lines with scant success. Swedish elections saw the S.D. lose and C.P. gain.
9/18 Eugene gets argyrol packs. He got an enema last night and was praised by Lillian for being so amenable. Sylvia gave her doll an enema at the same time. Went for Eugene's bike today and Sylvia rode it home. The NMU withdrew pickets from A.F.L. ships. Hundreds of truckers settled with the union for $7.40 per week increase plus a 40 hr week and other improvements. The main trucking organization is still adamant. Wallace's speech is causing great dispute. Meat is at an all time low (not in price). Manhattan barbers are striking. Hotel musicians settled their strike for a 20% raise and other concessions. Terror is Greece is conceded by all. Lillian over tonight to arrange party.
9/19 Wallace in a conference with Truman has promised to make no more speeches until the end of the Paris peace conference. Squatters are evacuating London houses after winning a promise of action by the gov't to requisition thousands of homes. Beat Levy. Joe Louis Ko'd Tami Mauriello in 2.09 of the first round at the Yankee Stadium before 35,000. Mauriello staggered Louis with a hard right at the bell. Eugene went out this afternoon.
9/20 Pres. Truman has dramatically and unexpectedly fired Sec'y of Commerce Wallace for his opposition to our foreign policy. Beat Mencher. One night we heard an outcry from Sylvia and getting off the bed found her with one bedroom slipper on. "It's so dark, I couldn't find the other bedroom slipper" she said. Another night she walked into our bedroom - "Please untie this" she said pointing to her pajama strings. C.P. anniversary rally heard anti war speeches at the "Garden". NMU won equal raises with the AFL seamen. Churchill called for a German-French bloc. Vern Smith has been expelled. Eugene back to school. Stewart Edward White is dead at 73.
9/21 Lillian went downtown to Macy's and got the set of dishes we and Lil & Harry are giving to mom on her anniversary. Sylvia has matured a lot in the last few months. She doesn't cry anymore when children play with her toys. She also goes to the tennis courts with me alone and plays on the side-lines while I am on the courts. The UN will not investigate the Greek terror. The American Slav Congress in session had delegates from USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Czechoslovakia although Yugoslav delegates were barred from the country as Communists. Stalin has asked for a political clean up of the collective farm system. Played with the kids today making surprise houses for them out of blocks which they gleefully broke after admiring.21 18 survivors have been found after a Belgian transatlantic airliner with 44 aboard crashed in uninhabited Newfoundland.
St. James had three rows of courts; two rows of clay courts, and one of asphalt. Dad always looked askance at the asphalt; he never played on that that I can remember.
9/16 Beat Al Levitt. Rallies supported London squatters.
9/17 Lillian is getting over her cold but Eugene is out of school with a little temperature. Beat Levy. Ryan is urging his longshoremen to pass NMU picket lines with scant success. Swedish elections saw the S.D. lose and C.P. gain.
9/18 Eugene gets argyrol packs. He got an enema last night and was praised by Lillian for being so amenable. Sylvia gave her doll an enema at the same time. Went for Eugene's bike today and Sylvia rode it home. The NMU withdrew pickets from A.F.L. ships. Hundreds of truckers settled with the union for $7.40 per week increase plus a 40 hr week and other improvements. The main trucking organization is still adamant. Wallace's speech is causing great dispute. Meat is at an all time low (not in price). Manhattan barbers are striking. Hotel musicians settled their strike for a 20% raise and other concessions. Terror is Greece is conceded by all. Lillian over tonight to arrange party.
9/19 Wallace in a conference with Truman has promised to make no more speeches until the end of the Paris peace conference. Squatters are evacuating London houses after winning a promise of action by the gov't to requisition thousands of homes. Beat Levy. Joe Louis Ko'd Tami Mauriello in 2.09 of the first round at the Yankee Stadium before 35,000. Mauriello staggered Louis with a hard right at the bell. Eugene went out this afternoon.
9/20 Pres. Truman has dramatically and unexpectedly fired Sec'y of Commerce Wallace for his opposition to our foreign policy. Beat Mencher. One night we heard an outcry from Sylvia and getting off the bed found her with one bedroom slipper on. "It's so dark, I couldn't find the other bedroom slipper" she said. Another night she walked into our bedroom - "Please untie this" she said pointing to her pajama strings. C.P. anniversary rally heard anti war speeches at the "Garden". NMU won equal raises with the AFL seamen. Churchill called for a German-French bloc. Vern Smith has been expelled. Eugene back to school. Stewart Edward White is dead at 73.
9/21 Lillian went downtown to Macy's and got the set of dishes we and Lil & Harry are giving to mom on her anniversary. Sylvia has matured a lot in the last few months. She doesn't cry anymore when children play with her toys. She also goes to the tennis courts with me alone and plays on the side-lines while I am on the courts. The UN will not investigate the Greek terror. The American Slav Congress in session had delegates from USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Czechoslovakia although Yugoslav delegates were barred from the country as Communists. Stalin has asked for a political clean up of the collective farm system. Played with the kids today making surprise houses for them out of blocks which they gleefully broke after admiring.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
9/8-9/14/46
9/8 Sunday Jack Kramer won the men's singles in straight sets from Tom Brown and Pauline Betz, the women's singles similarly over Doris Hart. We visited Al and Edith today. Daniel is very lively and bright with big blue eyes and a ready smile. He looks up at every lamp-post he passes. I read "Sons and Lovers" the psychological novel of the son who in substituting himself for the negligible [sic] father is incapable of normal love for other women. The 9 month strike of Phelps Dodge workers ended with the usual 18 1/2 raise. This is Sylvia's poem on our visit to the Pope's. "We are going to Allan and Edith. There is a baby over there. The baby's name is Daniel. There is just three people over there. That is the end of it".
9/9 I JUST STARTED SCHOOL TODAY AND I READ THE CHILDREN A STORY [my printing again, see scanned in page]. Eugene drew "Bobby & Betty with the Workers" by K. E. Dopp. "The Magic Monkey" by P&C. Chan and "Old World Wonder Stories" - four fairy tales. Eugene started the fall term today with Miss Curry again class 1-2-2 (1-B) room 201. Lillian went to Mt Sinai to see Lena Cherniak. We spent the afternoon at St James. At night Eugene complained of a stomach ache again and we didn't go out as a consequence. Truck drivers rejected the mayor's proposals over their leaders head. Ryan has ordered his longshoremen to hold up UNRAA shipments to Yugoslavia. Poles are demonstrating against Byrnes speech with respect to Polish German borders. Several were injured in a clash between British police and left wing demonstrators in Trieste.
I don't know who Lena Cherniak was.
7/9/11 - Silvia tells me that she was one of our Aunt Molly's relatives.
9/10 Split with Levy. In the afternoon took the kids to the park as Lillian stayed in. They met a little girl and played. Eugene was a doctor, also a bad boy who put sticks in the doll's head. At school Mrs. Lyston said of Eugene: "This is the lad who could read third grade readers in kindergarden". At Lake Success our delegate Johnson supported Greece and Britain against Manuilsky's charges. Bulgaria voted 95% for a republic against the monarchy. Talbert and Osborne took the mixed doubles.
9/11 Beat Sheib and Evers. The kids like to lick their plate clean at meals and then say "my mother doesn't give me anything to eat". Jews sabotaged oil, rail lines and ports in Palestine. In England squatters, led by the C.P. took over vacant houses. In the truck strike O'Dwyer charged Communists were behind the "revolt" against the union leadership in voting to stay out. At the "U.E." convention red baiting and factionalism led by Carey and Bloch were repudiated by about 5-1. Minton & McKenney have been expelled from the C.P.
9/12 Beat Evers. Saw Ernie K. who is improved and looking well. He is crazy about Sylvia as is J. [?] Durst. The WSB denied striking seamen boosts over the $17.50 per mo. previously granted. Tobin refused to intervene in the N.Y. truck drivers strike. At Lake Success Gromyko called the Greek situation a harbinger of a new Munich. B. of T. head Gross called for a 10¢ subway fare in answer to recommendations for 20¢ per hr. raise for the workers. The Dodgers and Reds played a 19 inning scoreless tie. At night to see "Inside Job" and "To Each His Own" with O. DeHaviland and John Lund. A sentimental but enjoyable drama of a mother's love for a son she could not claim.
9/13 Beat Mencher. Sylvia gives delicious kisses, then names them as lettuce kisses, jelly kisses etc. Eugene is reading and rereading his library books when home to the exclusion of anything else. Lillian sat tonight. Reconversion director Steelman ordered raises for striking AFL seamen. At an I.C.C.A.S.P. and NCPAC meeting at the Garden, Wallace called for peace through compromises by both U.S.A. and Russia, balancing America's imperialist actions with Russia's influence for democracy as in the same class. Pepper however attacked our foreign policy. Kroll, Robeson and Kingdon were other speakers as Mead and Lehman were boosted for office.
9/14 We walked along the reservoir to Mama's today, seeing Lil, Harry and Susan Tauby & Toby and Mom. Pop is in Northhampton. Had supper there, Susan breaking something and knocking over a lamp. The NMU has struck to win the raises promised to the seamen. The mayor has named an advisory comm. to reach a trucking settlement. Wallace's speech, mild as it was has caused much anxiety to the State Dept and Byrnes. Lillian had a cold today following a shower she took. Read "Pere Goriot" telling of a father's love and sacrifices for his daughters and the decadent society of Paris.
I remember the names "Tauby" and "Toby" but don't know who they were. There's a picture pasted in here, seemingly unrelated - see scanned in page.
9/9 I JUST STARTED SCHOOL TODAY AND I READ THE CHILDREN A STORY [my printing again, see scanned in page]. Eugene drew "Bobby & Betty with the Workers" by K. E. Dopp. "The Magic Monkey" by P&C. Chan and "Old World Wonder Stories" - four fairy tales. Eugene started the fall term today with Miss Curry again class 1-2-2 (1-B) room 201. Lillian went to Mt Sinai to see Lena Cherniak. We spent the afternoon at St James. At night Eugene complained of a stomach ache again and we didn't go out as a consequence. Truck drivers rejected the mayor's proposals over their leaders head. Ryan has ordered his longshoremen to hold up UNRAA shipments to Yugoslavia. Poles are demonstrating against Byrnes speech with respect to Polish German borders. Several were injured in a clash between British police and left wing demonstrators in Trieste.
I don't know who Lena Cherniak was.
7/9/11 - Silvia tells me that she was one of our Aunt Molly's relatives.
9/10 Split with Levy. In the afternoon took the kids to the park as Lillian stayed in. They met a little girl and played. Eugene was a doctor, also a bad boy who put sticks in the doll's head. At school Mrs. Lyston said of Eugene: "This is the lad who could read third grade readers in kindergarden". At Lake Success our delegate Johnson supported Greece and Britain against Manuilsky's charges. Bulgaria voted 95% for a republic against the monarchy. Talbert and Osborne took the mixed doubles.
9/11 Beat Sheib and Evers. The kids like to lick their plate clean at meals and then say "my mother doesn't give me anything to eat". Jews sabotaged oil, rail lines and ports in Palestine. In England squatters, led by the C.P. took over vacant houses. In the truck strike O'Dwyer charged Communists were behind the "revolt" against the union leadership in voting to stay out. At the "U.E." convention red baiting and factionalism led by Carey and Bloch were repudiated by about 5-1. Minton & McKenney have been expelled from the C.P.
9/12 Beat Evers. Saw Ernie K. who is improved and looking well. He is crazy about Sylvia as is J. [?] Durst. The WSB denied striking seamen boosts over the $17.50 per mo. previously granted. Tobin refused to intervene in the N.Y. truck drivers strike. At Lake Success Gromyko called the Greek situation a harbinger of a new Munich. B. of T. head Gross called for a 10¢ subway fare in answer to recommendations for 20¢ per hr. raise for the workers. The Dodgers and Reds played a 19 inning scoreless tie. At night to see "Inside Job" and "To Each His Own" with O. DeHaviland and John Lund. A sentimental but enjoyable drama of a mother's love for a son she could not claim.
9/13 Beat Mencher. Sylvia gives delicious kisses, then names them as lettuce kisses, jelly kisses etc. Eugene is reading and rereading his library books when home to the exclusion of anything else. Lillian sat tonight. Reconversion director Steelman ordered raises for striking AFL seamen. At an I.C.C.A.S.P. and NCPAC meeting at the Garden, Wallace called for peace through compromises by both U.S.A. and Russia, balancing America's imperialist actions with Russia's influence for democracy as in the same class. Pepper however attacked our foreign policy. Kroll, Robeson and Kingdon were other speakers as Mead and Lehman were boosted for office.
9/14 We walked along the reservoir to Mama's today, seeing Lil, Harry and Susan Tauby & Toby and Mom. Pop is in Northhampton. Had supper there, Susan breaking something and knocking over a lamp. The NMU has struck to win the raises promised to the seamen. The mayor has named an advisory comm. to reach a trucking settlement. Wallace's speech, mild as it was has caused much anxiety to the State Dept and Byrnes. Lillian had a cold today following a shower she took. Read "Pere Goriot" telling of a father's love and sacrifices for his daughters and the decadent society of Paris.
I remember the names "Tauby" and "Toby" but don't know who they were. There's a picture pasted in here, seemingly unrelated - see scanned in page.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
9/1-9/7/46
9/1 Sunday Had dinner at mother's with Tante Rose there. Lil and Harry bought a '36 Nash. At night we saw "Cluny Brown" with Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer - Cute. and "Somewhere In The Night" with John Hodiak an unsolved mystery - fairly good. Truckers of the Teamsters Union struck when operators turned down the Mayor's proposals for adequate raises. Controls on fruits and vegetables have been raised by Anderson. 14 of 15 Germans in the American zone have been freed the last one is accused of espionage with Russia exonerated of any complicity. Dorothy Head beat Dot Bundy in a "Nat'l" upset.
9/2 To Woodlawn and berries. Beat Mavis [?] -------. Sylvia is Eugene's echo and shadow. Repeats everything he says. When they're down together, she sticks to him like a leech. In the park she likes me to turn her head over heels. Eugene is using the tennis racket on the grass. Lillian "sat" tonight. Amid terror and repression Greece voted for the Monarchy in a "plebiscite". Brazil in an economic crisis saw riots with Communists arrested including a deputy who was released after general protest. In the Philippines, the "Huks" and a militant labor organization have been outlawed. Hotel dance bands and musicians have struck for raises. Budge Patty beat Yvon Petra in a "Nationals" upset. We found the roller skates at Woodlawn. Sylvia wet again last night. Moriz Rosenthal is dead at 83.
Can't really read the first name of the person he beat, and he apparently didn't know the last name.
9/3 More riots in Bombay caused 300 casualties as Nehru's interim gov't took office in India.
9/4 Beat Levy. Eugene vomited last night but is all right. Yugoslavia charged new border violations as US planes continued to make flights apparently photographing Yugo secret defences [sic]. Herschel V Johnson is our present delegate to the Security Council. Bottvinik won the Chess Masters tourney. Euwe 2nd.
Maybe he was reading some British report about the "defences"?
9/5 Beat Levy. Sadie and the kids over. Stock market is nose diving. Manuilsky proved British intervention in Greece. At Lake Success A.F.L. seamen are now on strike. At the Tenn. Negro trial Judge Ingram denied the right to quiz prospective jurors on race prejudice. Sylvia wet again. Eugene complained of stomach aches the last two nights.
9/6 Eugene organized a parade in the house with Sylvia then in the yard with Betty-Ann and Bobby also. In "Nationals" upsets P.C. Todd beat Louise Brough in straight sets and Bob Falkenburg beat Billy Talbert in five sets. The Ambassador to Argentina George Messersmith is under fire for alleged speeches there talking of the inevitability of war with Russia. Doris Hart upset M. Osborne in the "Nationals".
Betty-Ann was the daughter of the "super" of our building.
9/7 Sylvia is very anxious to see the dressing room in the Concourse Tennis courts which Eugene told her about. Tom Brown upset Frankie Parker in five sets. Split with Sheib. Yugoslavia has downed a Greek spying plane. Byrnes has made a speech calling for early German self-rule and a united Germany. 2500 ships are tied up by the AFL Seamen's strike against a cutback in wages. A meat famine is in the offing with thousands of meat workers are [sic] laid off as meat controls are returning. Gabriel Gonzales Videla, C.P. and progressive candidate for the Chilean presidency has a margin of 50,000 votes over his nearest competitor and is expected to be seated by Congress. Jesus Pinero first native born Governor took office in Puerto Rico. The trucking strike has tied up the whole Atlantic seaboard.
I don't remember "Concourse Tennis courts".
9/2 To Woodlawn and berries. Beat Mavis [?] -------. Sylvia is Eugene's echo and shadow. Repeats everything he says. When they're down together, she sticks to him like a leech. In the park she likes me to turn her head over heels. Eugene is using the tennis racket on the grass. Lillian "sat" tonight. Amid terror and repression Greece voted for the Monarchy in a "plebiscite". Brazil in an economic crisis saw riots with Communists arrested including a deputy who was released after general protest. In the Philippines, the "Huks" and a militant labor organization have been outlawed. Hotel dance bands and musicians have struck for raises. Budge Patty beat Yvon Petra in a "Nationals" upset. We found the roller skates at Woodlawn. Sylvia wet again last night. Moriz Rosenthal is dead at 83.
Can't really read the first name of the person he beat, and he apparently didn't know the last name.
9/3 More riots in Bombay caused 300 casualties as Nehru's interim gov't took office in India.
9/4 Beat Levy. Eugene vomited last night but is all right. Yugoslavia charged new border violations as US planes continued to make flights apparently photographing Yugo secret defences [sic]. Herschel V Johnson is our present delegate to the Security Council. Bottvinik won the Chess Masters tourney. Euwe 2nd.
Maybe he was reading some British report about the "defences"?
9/5 Beat Levy. Sadie and the kids over. Stock market is nose diving. Manuilsky proved British intervention in Greece. At Lake Success A.F.L. seamen are now on strike. At the Tenn. Negro trial Judge Ingram denied the right to quiz prospective jurors on race prejudice. Sylvia wet again. Eugene complained of stomach aches the last two nights.
9/6 Eugene organized a parade in the house with Sylvia then in the yard with Betty-Ann and Bobby also. In "Nationals" upsets P.C. Todd beat Louise Brough in straight sets and Bob Falkenburg beat Billy Talbert in five sets. The Ambassador to Argentina George Messersmith is under fire for alleged speeches there talking of the inevitability of war with Russia. Doris Hart upset M. Osborne in the "Nationals".
Betty-Ann was the daughter of the "super" of our building.
9/7 Sylvia is very anxious to see the dressing room in the Concourse Tennis courts which Eugene told her about. Tom Brown upset Frankie Parker in five sets. Split with Sheib. Yugoslavia has downed a Greek spying plane. Byrnes has made a speech calling for early German self-rule and a united Germany. 2500 ships are tied up by the AFL Seamen's strike against a cutback in wages. A meat famine is in the offing with thousands of meat workers are [sic] laid off as meat controls are returning. Gabriel Gonzales Videla, C.P. and progressive candidate for the Chilean presidency has a margin of 50,000 votes over his nearest competitor and is expected to be seated by Congress. Jesus Pinero first native born Governor took office in Puerto Rico. The trucking strike has tied up the whole Atlantic seaboard.
I don't remember "Concourse Tennis courts".
8/25-8/31/46
8/25 Sunday Went to Woodlawn again. Beat Charlton. We picked berries again for almost two hours. When Sylvia says "really and truly" we could eat her up. Yesterday Eugene left the pail with paddles and balls in the bus. Sylvia was hoping we'd get the same bus again so we'd find the pail.
8/26 Lillian's birthday. She got candy from Sylvia, bedroom slippers from Eugene and perfume from me. All with appropriate poems. Lil and Susan and Mom over for lunch. Lil brought a slip and Mom a blouse. Eugene got a shirt and Sylvia a polo shirt. After lunch we went to the park where Susan and Sylvia went on the swings and Eugene on the sliding pond. We also took pictures. Pop left for Northampton Mass. where he will work at Smith College. The Greek army has been purged of all anti-royalists. At night we went to the Ascot seeing "A Royal Scandal" with T. Bankhead and "The Seventh Veil" with James Mason and Ann Todd. Sylvia wet again. It must be the cool nights. Lost to Mencher.
8/27 Lost to Durst. We went downtown to Export Shoe and got canvass shoes for my work $1.50. Walking shoes for Lil $4. Black shoes for Eugene size 1 $3.50 and and brown for Sylvia size 11 1/2 $3.50. Sylvia told Eugene he could take a book outside because it was "gran-new". Australian delegate Beasley has attacked Russia's "lying and bullying". Talbert and Mulloy defeated McNeil and Guernsey in 5 sets for the Nat'l doubles. Lillian read Van Paasen's "Earth Could Be Fair"and I read Thais by Anatol France. The British have rounded up all 94 males in a Palestine village, searching for terrorists.
8/28 We went to Woodlawn this afternoon where I played with Lillian and we picked berries. The vines are too prickly for Sylvia so she gets an occasional berry but she likes Lillian to pour hers into the cup. Whenever we go up we take sandwiches, milk and cake and have supper there. At night we went out but instead of a movie we walked our feet off rode on street cars and subway and had some snack. We are sending our fleet to Greece just before the plebiscite. Gen Semenov and seven other czarists are on trial for plotting with Japan and other countries to overthrow the Soviet regime.
8/29 The Misses Brough and Osborne won their fifth successive Nat'l doubles title over Mrs. M. A. Prentiss and Mrs. P. C. Todd in straight sets. Today we went to visit the Statue of Liberty. We rode up on an elevator and then started to walk the twelve flights of stairs. Two thirds of the way up Sylvia accepted Lillian's hint that they start down. Sylvia thought she'd get too tired. Eugene was very anxious to walk to the top and we both made it easily. Then we walked all the way to the bottom. We bought a box of pop-corn from which Sylvia extracted fists-full at every opportunity. At night Mike over for a visit. Sec'y of Agriculture Anderson has allowed boosts of 15% on beef and 8% on Pork. The first meeting of the Security Council at the new Lake Success L.I. headquarters saw discussion over eight new applicants to the UN. Britain favors Eire, Portugal and Transjordan and the Soviet bloc supports Albania and Outer Mongolia. Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden are approved unanimously. Admiral Halsey says "we go where we damn please". Peonage is being investigated in Georgia and cops' link with gambling and vice graft in N.Y. City. The arbitrator recommended 18 1/2¢ for M. U. workers.
I remember that Statue of Liberty visit, and walking all the way down, vaguely. The Security Council meeting is interesting to me, as their location was a large conference room at what was (or became) Sperry Gyroscope Company (lots of later names), and I was in that conference room many times; it had pictures of the Security Council meetings.
8/30 We went downtown today finding the Empire State Bld'g ascent too expensive so we had ice cream, bought some knick knacks for the kids and had a bus ride home. Eugene is very handsome and Sylvia is getting beautiful by general agreement. After I scolded her today she said "If you ever say that again, I won't go to sleep when I'm in bed". She said we found something on the floor of the ground in the sidewalk of the street. An escaped Negro has named a dozen of a lynch mob who murdered his companion. Sentences of 18 Jewish extremists have been commuted to "life" in Palestine. Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden have been accepted by the UN; the other five countries vetoed. Commander Kilian of the Lichfield Camp where American soldiers were tortured by American officers and guards has been let off with a $500 fine and a reprimand. Lillian sits tonight. Yesterday Eugene drew "Overall Boys in Switzerland" by E. O. Grover, "Make Way for Ducklings" by R. McCloskey and "How The Leopard Got His Spots" by Kipling.
I have a vague memory of the disappointment at not going up in the ESB.
8/31 Woodlawn again and berries again. Beat Ianisievitch [?] and Fischer. Sylvia accomplished nothing but a lost cup in berry picking. We took along a pair of beginners roller skates and toy egg beater Bobby Rosenberg had given Sylvia today and left both at the park. The French S.P. repudiated Blum, voting for cooperation with the C.P. by more than 2-1. Many have been killed in pre-plebiscite riots in Greece. England has barred a Security Council hearing on Ukrainian charges against Greece. Molotov charged American interference in Greece. Terrorism reigns there against anti-monarchists. England has many troops there. Sweden has rejected a U.S. protest against her loan to Russia.
8/26 Lillian's birthday. She got candy from Sylvia, bedroom slippers from Eugene and perfume from me. All with appropriate poems. Lil and Susan and Mom over for lunch. Lil brought a slip and Mom a blouse. Eugene got a shirt and Sylvia a polo shirt. After lunch we went to the park where Susan and Sylvia went on the swings and Eugene on the sliding pond. We also took pictures. Pop left for Northampton Mass. where he will work at Smith College. The Greek army has been purged of all anti-royalists. At night we went to the Ascot seeing "A Royal Scandal" with T. Bankhead and "The Seventh Veil" with James Mason and Ann Todd. Sylvia wet again. It must be the cool nights. Lost to Mencher.
8/27 Lost to Durst. We went downtown to Export Shoe and got canvass shoes for my work $1.50. Walking shoes for Lil $4. Black shoes for Eugene size 1 $3.50 and and brown for Sylvia size 11 1/2 $3.50. Sylvia told Eugene he could take a book outside because it was "gran-new". Australian delegate Beasley has attacked Russia's "lying and bullying". Talbert and Mulloy defeated McNeil and Guernsey in 5 sets for the Nat'l doubles. Lillian read Van Paasen's "Earth Could Be Fair"and I read Thais by Anatol France. The British have rounded up all 94 males in a Palestine village, searching for terrorists.
8/28 We went to Woodlawn this afternoon where I played with Lillian and we picked berries. The vines are too prickly for Sylvia so she gets an occasional berry but she likes Lillian to pour hers into the cup. Whenever we go up we take sandwiches, milk and cake and have supper there. At night we went out but instead of a movie we walked our feet off rode on street cars and subway and had some snack. We are sending our fleet to Greece just before the plebiscite. Gen Semenov and seven other czarists are on trial for plotting with Japan and other countries to overthrow the Soviet regime.
8/29 The Misses Brough and Osborne won their fifth successive Nat'l doubles title over Mrs. M. A. Prentiss and Mrs. P. C. Todd in straight sets. Today we went to visit the Statue of Liberty. We rode up on an elevator and then started to walk the twelve flights of stairs. Two thirds of the way up Sylvia accepted Lillian's hint that they start down. Sylvia thought she'd get too tired. Eugene was very anxious to walk to the top and we both made it easily. Then we walked all the way to the bottom. We bought a box of pop-corn from which Sylvia extracted fists-full at every opportunity. At night Mike over for a visit. Sec'y of Agriculture Anderson has allowed boosts of 15% on beef and 8% on Pork. The first meeting of the Security Council at the new Lake Success L.I. headquarters saw discussion over eight new applicants to the UN. Britain favors Eire, Portugal and Transjordan and the Soviet bloc supports Albania and Outer Mongolia. Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden are approved unanimously. Admiral Halsey says "we go where we damn please". Peonage is being investigated in Georgia and cops' link with gambling and vice graft in N.Y. City. The arbitrator recommended 18 1/2¢ for M. U. workers.
I remember that Statue of Liberty visit, and walking all the way down, vaguely. The Security Council meeting is interesting to me, as their location was a large conference room at what was (or became) Sperry Gyroscope Company (lots of later names), and I was in that conference room many times; it had pictures of the Security Council meetings.
8/30 We went downtown today finding the Empire State Bld'g ascent too expensive so we had ice cream, bought some knick knacks for the kids and had a bus ride home. Eugene is very handsome and Sylvia is getting beautiful by general agreement. After I scolded her today she said "If you ever say that again, I won't go to sleep when I'm in bed". She said we found something on the floor of the ground in the sidewalk of the street. An escaped Negro has named a dozen of a lynch mob who murdered his companion. Sentences of 18 Jewish extremists have been commuted to "life" in Palestine. Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden have been accepted by the UN; the other five countries vetoed. Commander Kilian of the Lichfield Camp where American soldiers were tortured by American officers and guards has been let off with a $500 fine and a reprimand. Lillian sits tonight. Yesterday Eugene drew "Overall Boys in Switzerland" by E. O. Grover, "Make Way for Ducklings" by R. McCloskey and "How The Leopard Got His Spots" by Kipling.
I have a vague memory of the disappointment at not going up in the ESB.
8/31 Woodlawn again and berries again. Beat Ianisievitch [?] and Fischer. Sylvia accomplished nothing but a lost cup in berry picking. We took along a pair of beginners roller skates and toy egg beater Bobby Rosenberg had given Sylvia today and left both at the park. The French S.P. repudiated Blum, voting for cooperation with the C.P. by more than 2-1. Many have been killed in pre-plebiscite riots in Greece. England has barred a Security Council hearing on Ukrainian charges against Greece. Molotov charged American interference in Greece. Terrorism reigns there against anti-monarchists. England has many troops there. Sweden has rejected a U.S. protest against her loan to Russia.
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