9/22-9/28/46

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.