11/10 Sunday After lunch we dressed in hiking clothes and walked for two hours in the Van Cortlandt woods. Eugene broke his gun in the downstairs door. Sylvia wore the new belt and holster but lost the latter on the way. We stopped at the boat house for hot dogs for us and pop corn for the kids. We visited the Van Cortlandt Mansion on the way seeing colonial rooms. Played some chess at night. Truman ended all price controls except on sugar and rice and controls on wages.
I guess that solved the gun problem I mentioned in the last entry.
11/11 When Sylvia missed her holster during the hike she said "Where's my gun station?" Took the kids out with racquets and balls to the schoolyard wall but rain interrupted us in about ten minutes. Richard M. came up and I played parachute and marbles with all three kids. Eugene is running wild and is irrepressible. French elections to the National Assembly saw the C.P. lead with 2,800,000 the MRP second with 2,270,000 S.P. 1,700,000 Rep. Party of Liberty 1,500,000 - all incomplete. Complete results C.P. 5,430000 MRP 4,990,000 S.P. 3,430,000 PRL 3,220,000. Although giving the Philippines their freedom we have retained industrial control through the Bell Act which continues quotas on their exports and gives us equal rights in the Philippines. Swedish C.P. gained in elections as the S.D. lost. At night we visited Lil & Harry, Mom and Pop being there.
The "Complete results" sentence was squeezed in at the bottom of the page, presumably at a later date.
11/12 Bobbie R came up to ask Sylvia to play with him in the yard. She almost burst into tears on refusing him. However later she promised to go the next day. Novikoff at the UN trusteeship council asked that Palestine be freed or be placed under the UN trusteeship. Truman offered to cooperate with the Republicans. Scottoriggio anti-Marcantonio worker died of injuries in an Election Day beating. Transport workers won $6000,000 in back pay. We are returning the seized Danube boats to their owners.
11/13 Italian elections saw the CP-SP unity make big gains. A new reign of terror has hit Spain. A U.S. Embassy employee in Poland got 5 years prison for complicity in a murder of a Peasant Party leader. Rogge charged Att'y Gen'l Clark is shielding fascists here. Romped with Sylvia on the floor. She cried "uncle" when I gave her the "scissors". An election in Korea, rigged by us & Korean conservatives to return reactionaries to office, succeeded.
11/14 A new landmark was reached in Sylvia's life when Betty Ann and Joycie came up to ask her down to the yard to play and she agreed. Later after lunch she went with Eugene to invite Betty Ann to the house to play. Smuts followed U.S. precedent in threatening to annex S.W. Africa over the General Assembly's possible rejection. Belgian Communists quit the Cabinet over the failure to get one vice-presidency. 60 Labor M.P.'s asked for a change to Britain's foreign policy. Transit workers voted against a strike.
11/15 Lillian saw Eugene's class in session this morning as part of open school week. She was quite satisfied with Eugene's showing. He is wardrobe monitor. China peace talks are off again. Chou-En-Lai blamed U.S. aid to Chiang as mainly responsible claiming the fact prevented U.S. from being a satisfactory mediator. Dr. Howard Shapley before the Rankin Committee had papers snatched from his hand in closed session. He was cited for contempt for standing on his rights. The Big 4 Foreign Ministers continued to discuss Trieste at the Waldorf. May Sinclair is dead. Cousin Anne had her appendix out this evening. De Falla is dead. Our denazification program in Germany is a failure says Gen. Clay.
11/16 Mom came over and had lunch. She didn't bring Barbara as her aunt will take care of her. C.I.O. Exec board tightened control of local councils.
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.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
11/3-11/9/46
11/3 Sunday We went to Charlotte Langers and Hy Goodes afternoon wedding at the Concourse Plaza leaving the kids with Molly. Lillian shone with her new hair-do, hat, dress, shoes and gloves and bag. The Albanian firing on a British cruiser is called a hoax. The seven week United Parcel strike has been settled with a raise and cut in wages.
I have no explanation for the seemingly contradictory end of this item.
11/4 Sylvia asked for soap and washed her doll's clothing in the bathroom sink. Eugene attended a different class this morning and was worried about finding his way back there after lunch.
11/5 Lillian left the house at 8 A.M. with the kids and Bobby R. to see "Huckleberry Finn" and many cartoons at the Paradise. Later we voted for Mead and Lehman for Gov. and Sen. Transport workers get 20¢ per hr. raise. P.M. will take advertising with Ralph Ingersoll resigned. Big 4 Foreign Ministers opened their parley at the "Waldorf" to write the final peace treaties.
11/6 Republicans Dewey and Ives are N.Y. Gov. & Senator in a countrywide Republican landslide. Consolation is victory of Marcantonio and Powell. India's delegate at the UN Trusteeship Comm. attacked South Africa's projected annexation of S. W. Africa. Vets in Chicago and California are beginning to squat. W. A. Nickel, $60 a week Mergenthaler Linotype employee who embezzled nearly a million dollars was caught in one day but criminals who were implicated are still being discovered. Movie stars are also being mentioned. Isaac Wood[w]ard's blinder has been acquitted.
11/7 The Democrats debacle was due mostly to Truman's ineptness and P.A.C.'s closeness to the Dems. The A.L.P. showed strength polling 425,000 votes for Lehman. Ben Davis C.P. got 87,000 in the city alone, also impressive. The Liberal Party polled only 180,000 for Lehman. Lillian went with mother to see how her bedroom set was getting along while I took the kids to the park. They fed peanuts to the squirrels. Eugene wears a school-bag now. In the evening, Eugene wanted to be a farmer when he grows up. He will marry one of the girls in his class or Gloria. Gloria & Vivian played with the kids before supper. Each one made a house. Read "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard" by A. France. Story of the humanistic savant who receives a vicarious satisfaction in his protection of the daughter of his early beloved. We saw the Marx Brothers in "A Night in Casablanca" and Boys' Ranch with Skippy Homeier. Reformation of juveniles on a ranch.
11/8 Eugene boasted he was smart in school when we scolded him. Sylvia caught him up right away "Why aren't you smart at home, too." Later she came running in "Isn't this a terrible word - to have a baby and no line." We aim to retain sole trusteeship of our newly acquired Pacific Islands no matter what the UN does according to J.F. Dulles. Liberals beaten in the election included Mitchell, Savage, Coffee, DeLacy, Murdock, Biemiller, Guffey, Tunnell, Ouillard[?], Healy, Izac, Doyle, etc.
I should get "straight man" credit for Sylvia's first quoted remark. I don't understand her second. Not certain of all of the names of the liberals who lost, but, while researching it in the NY Times, saw that one winner in California was a guy named "Richard W. [sic] Nixon".
11/9 Evelyn & Isabel came over for lunch today. She brought a doll for Isabel [sic, clearly it was for Sylvia] with a full set of clothes made by Evelyn, also a pistol set for Eugene and home made cookies. We gave Isabel some book sets. Isabel is a real eating problem. At lunch she had a few spoonsfull of soup, no meat or veg. at all, some dessert and half a glass of milk. The transit board will not recognize any union for collective bargaining and is stalling on retroactive pay. The first bank strike ever saw big raises won after one day out at the Merchant's Bank. Gabriel Wells is dead at 85. Friday night Eugene listens to Burl Ives from 8 PM to 8:15 and Baby Snooks until 8:30. #41 for Eugene - New Mexico.
I wonder what they did about the "pistol set"; my mother did not allow me to have any guns, so I was always jealous of other boys' cap pistols.
I have no explanation for the seemingly contradictory end of this item.
11/4 Sylvia asked for soap and washed her doll's clothing in the bathroom sink. Eugene attended a different class this morning and was worried about finding his way back there after lunch.
11/5 Lillian left the house at 8 A.M. with the kids and Bobby R. to see "Huckleberry Finn" and many cartoons at the Paradise. Later we voted for Mead and Lehman for Gov. and Sen. Transport workers get 20¢ per hr. raise. P.M. will take advertising with Ralph Ingersoll resigned. Big 4 Foreign Ministers opened their parley at the "Waldorf" to write the final peace treaties.
11/6 Republicans Dewey and Ives are N.Y. Gov. & Senator in a countrywide Republican landslide. Consolation is victory of Marcantonio and Powell. India's delegate at the UN Trusteeship Comm. attacked South Africa's projected annexation of S. W. Africa. Vets in Chicago and California are beginning to squat. W. A. Nickel, $60 a week Mergenthaler Linotype employee who embezzled nearly a million dollars was caught in one day but criminals who were implicated are still being discovered. Movie stars are also being mentioned. Isaac Wood[w]ard's blinder has been acquitted.
11/7 The Democrats debacle was due mostly to Truman's ineptness and P.A.C.'s closeness to the Dems. The A.L.P. showed strength polling 425,000 votes for Lehman. Ben Davis C.P. got 87,000 in the city alone, also impressive. The Liberal Party polled only 180,000 for Lehman. Lillian went with mother to see how her bedroom set was getting along while I took the kids to the park. They fed peanuts to the squirrels. Eugene wears a school-bag now. In the evening, Eugene wanted to be a farmer when he grows up. He will marry one of the girls in his class or Gloria. Gloria & Vivian played with the kids before supper. Each one made a house. Read "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard" by A. France. Story of the humanistic savant who receives a vicarious satisfaction in his protection of the daughter of his early beloved. We saw the Marx Brothers in "A Night in Casablanca" and Boys' Ranch with Skippy Homeier. Reformation of juveniles on a ranch.
11/8 Eugene boasted he was smart in school when we scolded him. Sylvia caught him up right away "Why aren't you smart at home, too." Later she came running in "Isn't this a terrible word - to have a baby and no line." We aim to retain sole trusteeship of our newly acquired Pacific Islands no matter what the UN does according to J.F. Dulles. Liberals beaten in the election included Mitchell, Savage, Coffee, DeLacy, Murdock, Biemiller, Guffey, Tunnell, Ouillard[?], Healy, Izac, Doyle, etc.
I should get "straight man" credit for Sylvia's first quoted remark. I don't understand her second. Not certain of all of the names of the liberals who lost, but, while researching it in the NY Times, saw that one winner in California was a guy named "Richard W. [sic] Nixon".
11/9 Evelyn & Isabel came over for lunch today. She brought a doll for Isabel [sic, clearly it was for Sylvia] with a full set of clothes made by Evelyn, also a pistol set for Eugene and home made cookies. We gave Isabel some book sets. Isabel is a real eating problem. At lunch she had a few spoonsfull of soup, no meat or veg. at all, some dessert and half a glass of milk. The transit board will not recognize any union for collective bargaining and is stalling on retroactive pay. The first bank strike ever saw big raises won after one day out at the Merchant's Bank. Gabriel Wells is dead at 85. Friday night Eugene listens to Burl Ives from 8 PM to 8:15 and Baby Snooks until 8:30. #41 for Eugene - New Mexico.
I wonder what they did about the "pistol set"; my mother did not allow me to have any guns, so I was always jealous of other boys' cap pistols.
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