9/14-9/20/47

9/14 Sunday In the morning the kids played at cards, drawing pictures then we went to Clinton where they collected spoons. After lunch to Molly's for supper & meeting Milton's girl friend Shirley. Eugene played chess and did puzzles while Sylvia amused herself with her 'didey' doll.

9/15 To mother's for dinner. Lil, Harry & Susan there also. Sylvia [&] Susan amused themselves eating candy and raisins. Eugene and I played Pop some chess. Detroit housewives are crossing to Canada to shop at cheaper prices. Jack Kramer won the National singles over Frankie Parker - 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. Louise Brough upset Margaret Osborne to win the women's title 8-6, 4-6, 6-1.

9/16 Eugene drew "The Wise Men of Helm" by S. Simon - Jewish Folk-lore, "The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said" by P. Colum, "Fun With Paper" by Leeming and Sylvia took "Peter and the Wolf". Sylvia's atrocious appetite may be due to her post-nasal drip which is very bad. Eugene cannot be deterred from poking and making passes at us. The first congressional probe of high prices at Providence heard the AFL, C.I.O., A.V.C.and P.C.A. call for a return of price control. 80 Slovaks were arrested in a plot to assassinate Czech president Benes. The Security Council dissolved the Greek border comm.

9/17 Sylvia burst into tears this morning when she found she had left her doll's bottle at Mom's. I bought her another after she had rejected two for size or lack of numbers. Incidentally, she doesn't want to go to the playground school. Lillian took the kids to the zoo yesterday They visited the children's zoo and had popcorn. The second session of the General Assembly opened at Flushing Meadow at 11AM yesterday with the delegates of 55 nations attending. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil was re-elected president. His opening address stressed the possibility of war.

The picture below ("Eugene & Sylvia in September 1947") was pasted in the middle of this entry. 

 
9/18 Beat Mencher, Sylvia saying I played lovely after the game. LaGuardia collapsed and is seriously ill. Marshall at the General Assembly made six points. He proposed a resolution censuring the Balkans for causing the crisis in Greece and establishing a border commission. He proposed a permanent standing committee (to bypass the Security Council[}]. Proposed liberalization of the veto. Claimed disarmament cannot be instituted until the intern'l situation is cleared up. He was evasive on the Palestine issue. Blamed Russia in the Korean situation. Two million agricultural and factory workers are on strike.

9/19 Eugene got a comic book and after finishing it he wanted to go back to the store and exchange it. Vishinsky answered Marshall at the UN. He singled out nine Americans who have threatened Russia with war as an example of U.S. war-mongering. He attacked the Truman and Marshall Plans as violating UN principles in that they employ aid as a political weapon. He charged American corporations made 50 billion dollars profit in the war calling it blood money. Camden shipyards settled for 12¢ per hour increase. Unionist P.J. Warhol [?] has been seized for deportation. Lillian read "Three Came Home" by A. N. Keith - Experiences in a Jap. prison camp. I read "The Old Curiosity Shop". Lillian went to Bathgate Ave. bringing home sheeting, fruits, vegetables and liver at a saving and a pair of shoes for $2. Railway Exp. struck.

9/20 After lunch, downtown where we got an alarm clock at a pawnbroker's - $1.50, material for curtains and a few knick-knacks. A UN Comm. voted to bring the veto before the Assembly for revision. Anti-labor transit head Gen'l Gross resigned blasting O'Dwyer for sabotage. Wallace attacked Truman's hysteria in swearing in Defense Sec'y Forrestal ahead of time. Assorted renegades including Budenz, Manning Johnson and Zack are appearing against Santo in his deportation proceedings. LaGuardia is dead at 64.

9/7-9/13/47

9/7 Sunday In the morning to Walton. After lunch we spent the evening at St. James. Lost in an informal doubles tournament. Then lost to Weckworth. Eugene played five or six chess games including two with Pop who came over. Lillian read "East River" by S. Asch. "Unrealistic".

9/8 Eugene returned to school today. His teacher M Gerhold. Class B-5 (3a) Room 305. His previous teacher Mrs. Dwyer asked for him to be monitor of her class today. He also read them a story. Sylvia couldn't get into kindergarden  and will probably have to wait a year when she will enter 1A. She asked Lillian today if I ever had a beard and how you get one. Jews on the Exodus 1947 who have been shuttling back and forth after failing to run the blockade to Palestine are being forcibly debarked at Hamburg. The Nat'l Student Assoc'n voted to affiliate to the Intern'l Union of Students.

9/9 Beat Mencher. Eugene is messenger in his class. Sylvia is playing with her little friend Norma G. Mine strikes in Britain spread even against the union leaders advice. A drive is on to deport alien union leaders. Affected so far are Santo and Obermeier.

9/10 Lost to Schinasi. Sylvia went down alone with Mrs. Gallins and Norma but started to cry after about an hour. Jews were clubbed off the Exodus 1947 in Hamburg to the horror of the whole world.

9/11 Took the kids to the park after school while Lillian went to visit Sadie and see the new Robert. Eugene played the young people some chess while Sylvia picked "coffee". In a traditionally Republican stronghold, a Republican won a congressional by-election over a Democrat backed by united labor and pledged to combat the Taft-Hartley Bill. Food prices are causing national unrest. The AFL Executive Council called for a "Big 4" conference to end the international impasse. We saw "Dead of Night" a British psychological film with Michael Redgrave and "Wide Open Faces" made in 1938 with Joe E. Brown - terrible. Jane Wyman, Lyda Roberti, Sidney Toler.

9/12 Beat Weckworth. Eugene woke us at 8:30 so he missed school this morning. Sylvia vomited after lunch and Eugene complained of a stomach ache. An overflow crowd at the "Garden" heard Wallace, Aubrey Williams, Kingdon, Walsh, Canada Lee, Hirschmann, Robeson & Lena Horne, blast the American path to war and reaction at home at a P.C.A. rally.

9/13 Sylvia dawdles with her dry cereal at breakfast interminably. The city will probe high prices. Columbia U. has been found guilty of discrimination in employment by SCAD. The A.F.L. Exec Council has voted non-compliance with the slave law's provisions to submit non-Communist affidavits to the N.L.R.B.

8/31-9/6/47

8/31 Sunday In the morning to Walton with Eugene. After lunch by cab to Woodlawn. Pop lost a chess game with Eugene. Eugene stalemated with Alex G. with a handicap. The kids played a lot in the sandpile making pies with a small cup. We picked berries probably for the last time as they are growing scarce. Sylvia is impossible these days: whining, clinging to mother, stubborn as a mule. Beat Barth.

9/1 In the morning out with Eugene, Sylvia staying home rather than go to Walton. After lunch to Woodlawn picking up Molly & Sam in our cab. Pop won three out of four games with Eugene. I lost a close game to Al Berman and beat him and Jullis [?] Cullaus [?] at tennis. Sylvia played with two little girls and cards with Molly. She was very happy and lively today. Showered with both kids at home. A half hour after retiring Eugene came in with an abraded toe. Sylvia walked in sleepily to see the toe. Both were very cute. The Greek cabinet will emulate us by a purge of gov't workers & abolition of strikes. Hungarian elections saw dispute over the extent of fraudulent votes. UNSCOP asked partition of Palestine & freedom by Sept. 1949. Kramer & Schroeder won all singles from Australians Pails & Bromwich, the last day's being five set matches. Bromwich & Long beat Kramer & Schroeder in the doubles. This gave us the Davis Cup 4-1. The Legion asked for the suspension of the Bill of Rights, Outlawing of the C.P. and voted down the Wagner Ellender Taft Federal Housing Bill. Sadie's Robert born today.

9/2 Eugene drew "Nobody's Doll" by A. De Leeuw "Fun With Puzzles" by J. Leeming "The Boy Who Could Do Anything" (a repeat) - Mexican Folk Tales retold [by] Anita Brenner and Sylvia drew "The Story of Horace" by A. M. Coats. Sylvia got a blouse from Molly and Lillian a pretty apron. Eugene hands me one comic book each day which I hope will end his comic book reading. The Gov't coalition won 3-2 in Hungary. The C.P. led with over a million votes. Hundreds of thousands participated in Labor Day parades and demonstrations where Taft Hartley Bill was attacked and warnings given against war and depression. Lillian gave Sylvia a haircut.

9/3 Eugene mated Karl in the park in five minutes. Sylvia seems to be improving in her behavior. Truman arrived in Brazil met by a million welcomers. His speech holding out little hope for economic aid for Latin America closed the Inter-American conference. He hit at the new democracies of Europe saying the people were subjected to the same kind of domination we fight to abolish. Lillian read "Black Hamlet" by Wulf Sachs. We both read A.G. Hays "City Lawyer".

9/4 Beat Mencher, the kids annoying me by quarreling behind the fence. The British T.U.C. voted to help the govt in the crisis by supporting partial controls on workers. Prices are at an all time peak. Milk is 20¢. Meat is rising continually.

9/5 Sylvia has a little visitor - Norma G. Arnold P. has just called Eugene to come down and bring his "Bring the Animals Home" game in his new Animal book. 19 nations signed a mutual defense pact. P.R. is under fire with 130,000 signatures presented on a repeal drive though many are being challenged. The TWU bus division is threatening a strike in support of a pension system for its older employees.

9/6 To Walton in the morning. Sylvia is a corn on the cob addict. Hungarian Socialists are threatening to break away from the Communists over the issue of the elections. Sophoulis has replaced Tsaldaris in the Greek cabinet. The left wing won over the right in the State C.I.O. convention, the A.L.P. being endorsed and a resolution being passed to return our foreign policy to the New Deal path. Mary Wool[l]ey is dead at 84.

8/24-8/30/47

8/24 Sunday Sylvia took sick today at Woodlawn. We rushed home in a cab and called Dr. Seltzers as Dr. Holzman is away. He said she had a bad throat and could find nothing else. Sylvia had complained of pain in her stomach. She had 104° when we got home. In the morning I took Eugene to Walton where he showed improvement again. Afterwards we took a cab to Woodlawn taking lunch supper and jug along. Eugene played many chess games taking another from Alex with a queen against a rook. He was outclassed however by a Dr. Paul. I beat Pop again and Pop mated Eugene once and drew another. I beat Waldman in tennis. Mom & Pop, the Edelsteins, Beckers and Thaws all came up. Lillian's pain vanished.

8/25 Sylvia's temp. was below 100° in the morning and over 100° at night. She is still a poor patient. She got a doll that drinks a bottle and then wets while Eugene got a large tinker toy set, both presents from mom and pop. Sylvia loves her doll and Eugene was busy making contraptions all day. After lunch, to the park with Eugene. Eugene played chess with a kid who only beats his mother then a boy a little older than Eugene who plays well but Eugene won two games. Then I beat him one game. Sylvia is getting sulfa in liquid form - chocolate. She got a teaspoon-full every four hours, Lillian sleeping in Eugene's bed as usual to attend to her. Eugene slept with me. Police fired on 50,000 in a united celebration of Brazil's entrance into the war. 23 were wounded in the unprovoked attack. War continues in full force in Indonesia. Col Mancheno with the army & police behind him seized Ecuador and Pres. Ibarra has abdicated. The Greek govt dissolved with Tsaldaris delegated to form a new one. Legion Commander Griffith called for American troops in Greece. The Giants broke the N.L. homerun record of 171. A third party was formed in California to plug for Wallace. Left wingers were beaten by goons at the Illinois C.I.O. convention.

8/26 Lillian's birthday. She got flowers from Eugene, candy from Sylvia and toilet water from me. Sylvia was off the bed all day today. Her temp ranged from 99.6 to 100.4. Split with Weckworth. Eugene played some games with Freddy Katz in the park. Freddy has been learning from Paul Ellis for a couple of months. Eugene has an edge on him. Sylvia taught Lillian some card games. France vetoed a Soviet resolution to have the UN supervise its cease fire order in Indonesia. 1000 picketed the British consulate. Longshoremen voted to go back to work with a pledge to void the objectionable features of the Ryan contract.

I don't recognize the names Freddy Katz or Paul Ellis. 

8/27 A little chess with Eugene in the morning. After lunch I split with Dumbrava [?] while Eugene beat a boy and a girl at chess. Then I beat him one and we had a tennis lesson at Walton. At night we all played cards. I still fight with Sylvia all the time. The UN again asked for cease fire in Indonesia. The City Council passed three rent control bills. Eugene did this puzzle in a short time. First Major League Negro pitcher Dan Bankhead debut. [see scanned-in puzzle and box score below]. 

8/28 Sylvia's eye was swollen today. She got cold compresses argyrol in her nose and an argyrol pack. She cries and complains about everything that has to be done to her. She was very listless and tired today and napped for an hour. Took Eugene to Walton twice today and studied a little from the chess book. 24 I. G. Farben industrialists went on trial in Germany. Lillian read "The Egg and I" by Betty McDonald informative and witty, "Gentleman's Agreement" by Laura Z. Hobson, the sensational novel of anti-semitism and Upton Sinclair's "A World To Win".

8/29 Walton in the morning with Eugene, Lillian taking Sylvia to the playground. After lunch to Woodlawn where I beat Mencher. Eugene then beat him at chess. Picked some berries. Sadie came over there with the kids. Tsaldaris and his Royalists will again head the Greek Gov't. The Legion convention opening here heard speakers plug for militarization universal training and war. Left wingers lost out at the Indiana State C.I.O. parley.

8/30 Walton with the kids in the morning. After lunch, mom and pop, Lil Harry & Susan over. We got records and Lillian got a slip and nightgown. Pop beat Eugene a chess game when he got careless. They also split checker games. I beat pop a chess game. Eugene had to be reprimanded continually for poking at the kids with his guns. He has a small wooden 'gun' which he found in Woodlawn and a sword which he has been trying to make by gluing two sticks but which I suggested he nail together. We all had supper of salad and blintzes. Susan defended pop by lunging at Eugene when he hit pop and saying "bad boy". Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims are slaughtering each other by the thousands. Russia was the last to ratify the Italian, Finnish and Balkan peace treaties. We and England have scrapped the 1946 agreement to restrain Germany's industrial potential and 11 million tons of steel. Eisenhower called for a jingoistic foreign policy at the Legion convention. All Unions are determined to defeat Taft Hartley bill backers in the coming elections. 44 Hungarian plotters implicated with Nagy have received prison terms. Farmers sold direct to Unionists by invitation at a miniscule price.                              

8/17-8/23/47

8/17 Sunday Sylvia is in the habit now of saying "you little rascal" or "you little rat" at any opportunity. Eugene loves to horse around with her causing her to squeal in no time. In the morning to Walton and afterwards to the woods for two cans of berries. We took along milk, cookies, cake, fruit. The Inter-American conference opened at Rio. A Chicago mob attacked Negroes entering a housing project. Bklyn Trust Co strike ended in defeat. Bromwich & Pails for Australia defeated Czechoslovakia's Drobny & Cernik 4-1 in the Davis Cup semis. Australia meets us in the finals in September.

8/18 Lillian took the kids up to the roof in last week's hot evenings where they had a lot of fun. Played out a chess game with Eugene and then cards with the kids. Eugene played chess and checkers by himself in addition to his incessant comic book reading. 100 miners were killed in England. The F.T.C. cited the Iron & Steel industry with price fixing and maintaining. MacArthur's Asst. George Acheson [sic] was among the missing in a B 17 crash. The Gov't 'loyalty' purge began today. We all went downtown after lunch to Electronic Corp of Amer. 353 W. 48 to buy a table model radio victrola for $49.50 reduced from $99.50. Lillian went on the Macy's to buy both kids brown shoes specially priced at $2.98 with raw cord soles. Size 3 for Eugene and 12 1/2 for Sylvia. Both got E width. Russia vetoed Transjordans Ireland & Portugal while we vetoed Albania and Outer Mongolia for UN membership.

We had that combination radio and record player for many years; it was a very good radio, used to pull in stations from far away at night.

8/19 The Left Wing at the French S.P. congress won 21 of 31 seats. Bulgarian Petkov anti-Gov't leader has been condemned to death for treason. 118 were arrested in the Chicago anti-Negro rioting. The City will probe price-fixing. Gen Markos Vafiadis has set up a free gov't in guerrilla territory in Greece. Yemen & Pakistan became UN members.

8/20 Eugene still plays make believe with Sylvia. Dominican dictator Trujillo charges a revolutionary army is being encouraged in Cuba to oust him. Indonesia has turned down U.S. mediation offers, insisting on UN action. A congressional investigator slugged A.F.L. general counsel Joe Padway at a hearing on a jurisdictional dispute. A North Car. mob forced students in an inter-racial house to flee town. 500 are feared dead and 5000 injured in an arsenal explosion in Cadiz. Lillian read "There Comes A Time" by Thomas Bell, "Going Home" by Lester Cohen and "The Big Sky" by A.B. Guthrie. I read "Writers & Writing" by R. VanGelder.

Amusingly, the second book was apparently actually "Coming Home". 

8/21 The kids have many of their games and toys in cigar boxes and tennis ball boxes labelled by Eugene as Peg set, clay, tennis box, cargo, Uncle Wiggily, S. Amer jig saws. Eugene drew Kobi - A Boy of Switzerland by M & C Buff, Paul Bunyan by James Stevens,Traveling With The Birds by R. Boulton & Sylvia drew Hansel & Gretel with music. Housing foe Rep Gamble R-NY will probe the housing crisis. The Senate Foreign Relations Comm. released a hostile study of the Soviet Union calling it intolerant, suspicious and opportunistic. A rank & file longshoreman strike broke out again against Ryan. 15 Nazi doctors including Hitler's physician Brandt were found guilty of experimenting on concentration camp inmates. N.J. banned Jim crow in its schools & militia.

8/22 11 day Vacation starts. Lost to Weckworth & beat Mencher. The former at St. James. Sam at Woodlawn after he had lunch with us. Eugene beat him a game of chess. We picked a can of berries then to mothers to supper. Mom & Pop just came home after 2 1/2 weeks at "Feingolds". Lost a chess game to Eugene & Pop. Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania & Bulgaria were turned down for UN membership by Russia & US & England. Gen James Harbord is dead at 81 and Bilbo at 69. We won the Wightman cup, beating England seven matches to none.

8/23 To Walton with the kids then St. James where I had to look for Eugene for a half hour before I found him watching a chess game. On the way to Woodlawn Eugene got a propeller shoot and Sylvia a three piece cardboard set - 10¢ each. At Woodlawn I beat Lebost. Eugene beat Alex, on a queen against a rook handicap. Then Eugene and I picked berries. Lillian must see about the pain which has been bothering her in her neck. There is much to-do about the seven Protestant ministers led by Guy Emery Shipler & W. H. Melish who visited Yugoslavia and came back with a favorable report.

8/10-8/16/47

8/10 Sunday The kids played cards today for quite some time before a fight broke it up. Eugene has been copying a U.S. map in color for a couple of days. After lunch we went to the "Marble Hill" to see the English picture "Great Expectations". Whatever it contains is quite faithful to the book. Sylvia was fidgety but Eugene was very interested in it and also the other picture The Web with Ella Raines and Vincent Price & Edmond J. O'Brien.

I think I remember seeing "Great Expectations"; maybe I just remember talking about having seen it. Don't remember "The Web".

8/11 I clash repeatedly with Sylvia as she infuriates me with her stubborn resistance to reasonable requests. She also squeals at the slightest contact with Eugene. Bill Odom set a new world record of 73 hrs. 5 mi. 11 sec. in a round the world solo flight flying a Reynolds Bombshell. 

8/12 Beat Levy while the kids picked shells of large red nuts. Jinnah has been named the first head of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Pakistan separates from Hindu India Aug. 16. American seamen were jailed in Greece. Bklyn Trust Co. strikers had their strike headquarters smashed while police idled. Lillian took the kids to Devoe wading pool.

8/13 The kids get $18000 from a burglar they killed. Eugene has a gun which is also a sword and a bat. He also has a small gun which he uses for killing. Took the kids to Walton where Eugene showed improvement until he decided it was too hot. It will probably be 95° today. Ray Carlucci, a former labor spy is chief Army policeman in Britain. We threatened to by-pass the UN in Greece "to fight the Communist plot there". The C.I.O. demanded a special session of Congress on run away prices. Dan Tobin and R J Thomas spoke of a third party. Protestant ministers visiting Yugoslavia asserted there was freedom of worship there. Lillian took the kids to Devoe Wading Pool.

8/14 Split with Weckworth in 90+ heat. In the afternoon to pick berries with Eugene, he being enthusiastic although complaining of the heat in his sweat shirt and heavy pants. Later we all had a picnic supper in Woodlawn. UNSCOP delegates were appalled at D.P. camps conditions. The unanimous opinion is that almost all Jews want to go to Woodlawn Palestine. Egypt asked UN to oust British troops. Jew-Arab clashes occurred in Tel-Aviv. Pearl Bergoff is dead at 62. We saw "The Glass Menagerie" at the Windsor.

That crossing out was amusing. 

8/15 Split chess games with Eugene in the park. Then he played checkers in the playground while Sylvia went on all the swings sliding ponds & seesaws. Taught the kids "pisha-paysha". The drive against "bookies" has resulted in police shakeups and demotions. Nehru leads the Hindu "Indian Union". Terror continues in Dominica under Trujillo. In Paraguay, a revolutionary Army battles Morinigo. A Negro "Legion" post was ousted for inviting Robeson to sing.

8/16 To Walton for some tennis then the Strong St. playground. Eugene will not go on the seesaws. The kids played cards again. Sylvia is intrigued by "stealing bundles" Russia charged Greek terror against its Embassy employees. Arab Jewish fighting continued. The Soviet atom plan was rejected 10-0 by the UN Atomic Comm. Eisler was convicted of making false statements in applying for an exit permit. Actors Equity won an agreement from N.Y. Theatre [sic] owners to keep plays out of Washington until Jim Crow is eliminated there. It will go into effect Aug. '48. Mike Quin is dead at 44. Free Pakistan and Hindu India tools [?] were instituted.

8/3-8/9/47

8/3 Sunday We watched the St. James Tournament matches all day while the kids played in the playground. Eugene played checkers with the kids there most of the day while Sylvia went on the sliding pond and swings. At night I beat Eugene a tough chess game and an easy one.

8/4 In the morning to get balls, the kids seeing four trains and three ferry boats. They were also delighted with some stubs for the Windsor and silver pennies. Another Negro charged with rape has been killed lynched  in Miss. Dutch authorities complied with UN orders by ordering 'cease fire' in Indonesia. Anti-Semitic mobs in Liverpool stimulated by the Palestine issue fought police in rioting. Ike Williams won the worlds lightweight title KO'ing Bob Montgomery in 6.

8/5 Beat Weckworth while Eugene played chess in the playground and Sylvia got tar over herself on the sliding ponds and see-saws. Bought a set of jacks for Sylvia. Lillian and kids went to Orchard Beach with Len and Helen Davis in their car. Elliot Roosevelt testifying in the war aviation investigation against How charged an attempted smear against F.D.R. Howard Hughes, plane manufacturer and millionaire is under attack by Republicans. Bookies are under attack in a police drive to clean up the city.

Don't remember the Davises. 

8/6 Eugene drew "Paul Bunyan" by E. Shephard, "How Old Stormalong Captured Mocha Dick" by Irwin Shapiro, "The Chisel-Tooth Tribe" by W. S. Bronson and Sylvia chose "Trucks at Work" by Mary Elting. In the afternoon with Sam & Molly to Woodlawn where we picked berries. I beat Eugene a rapid transit game. We also had supper there. At night with Sam and Molly to see "Deep Are The Roots" at the Windsor. "The Negro in the South" with optimism expressed at the end. Prime Minister Attlee asked wartime powers to check the growing crisis in England. A North Car. jury refused to indict seven white men charging [sic] with attempting to lynch a rape suspect but also failed to indict Godwin Bush charged with the crime. License Comm. Fielding resigned as an officer of the A.L.P. but remained as a member after censure for supporting an 8¢ fare. Marcantonio's bill to allow alien seamen to ship out was signed by Truman. Some Negroes voted in the Miss. primary although they had to swear to oppose anti-lynch, polltax and F.E.P.C. legislation.

8/7 Eugene played chess all morning then I lost a game to him. Sylvia built a house of blocks. Lillian went to the "Oval" pool to meet Sadie and the kids. Evictions are growing.

8/8 Beat Mencher. Eugene's favorite is shooting with a 'gun' finger or anything at all. Sylvia's stubbornness cannot be broken down by anything short of violence. A general strike has started in Palestine protesting arrest of Jewish mayors.

8/9 A delight for the kids is to have a penny each to put in a nut machine. After Walton this morning Eugene grabbed his comic books and Sylvia the toy typewriter which was out of order however. Lillian and the kids went to Orchard Beach again with the Davises. High C.P. leaders testified in the Eisler trial. They denied there is an "affiliation" to the C.P. One is or is not a member.

7/27-8/2/47

7/27 Sunday In the morning to Walton then by cab to Woodlawn where I beat Waldman & Zinderman. Eugene played three people at chess and beat one. Pop was up. In the woods the berries were ready to ripen. We found six balloons there which delighted the kids no end. Read Edna Ferber's "Peculiar Treasure".
 
7/28 Eugene solved this puzzle [see scanned in page] in a short time. He cannot take any kind of physical punishment starting to scream and cowers as if he were being murdered. James V. Forrestal is the new Sec'y of Nat'l Defense. He helped rearm Germany. Remington Rand has settled for 8¢ per hour, and arbitration of the other 7¢. Truman's mother is dead at 94.

7/29 Beat Diembrava [?]. Eugene is devouring the comic books by the scores. Sylvia wouldn't take a shower with me because her bedroom slippers were so ragged it transpired. Sam over with a lovely little dress for Lillian that Molly picked up. Lillian took the kids to the Devoe Wading Pool. Another nitrate ship blew up - in Paris with hundreds of casualties. Joe Brodsky is dead at 57. [...]

That was Devoe Park, not far from where we lived. 

7/30 Eugene drew "The Spear of Ulysses" by A.B. Alessios, Maeterlinck's "Children's Life of the Bee", "Ol' Paul - The Mighty Logger" by Glen Rounds and Sylvia chose "Pelle's New Suit" by Elsa Beskow. Three Irgunists were executed by the British. 4500 Jewish Refugees deported to France before reaching Palestine will not leave their ship. Russia vetoed the U.S. proposal for a standing Balkan Commission to supervise the Greek border. In the afternoon we picked the first berries of the season at Woodlawn, then to Mom's for supper and farewell as Mom and Pop are going away to Feingold's. Lil Harry & Susan also had supper. At night to see "I Remember Mama" at the Windsor with Mady Christians. Trials and tribulations of a Norwegian family in San Fran.

This ("I Remember Mama") was apparently the play, not the movie, as the movie is dated 1948, and Mady Christians was in the play, not the movie; the Windsor did host live plays. 

7/31 Beat Eugene game of chess. Lil made the first jam of the season. Sylvia filled in a picture with crayon then played with her carriage and balloons. Dutch Ambassador Van Kleffens said the UN had no right to stop the Indonesian war as Indonesia was not a sovereign state. Traitor Douglas Chandler got a life sentence and $10,000 fine.

8/1 Beat Weckworth. The kids found a playing card, comb for a doll and a jack which they took home. Irgunists executed two British hostages, booby trapping them afterwards in a retaliatory measure. British troops ran amok in Tel Aviv killing five Jews. The Board of Estimate voted to submit the fare issue to the people in a referendum. Lillian took the kids to Woodlawn to pick berries.

8/2 In the morning to Woodlawn Walton. The kids played casino, Sylvia winning. A British armored car ran down Jews in a funeral procession for the pogrom victims. The UN called on the Netherlands and Indonesia to cease hostilities. The gov't is blocking much pro-Eisler evidence in his current trial.         

7/20-7/26/47

7/20 Sunday In the morning to Walton to play tennis with the kids. After lunch we walked to Gun Hill Rd. and the park. We spent the afternoon with Mom and Pop, Molly & Sam. Eugene drew with Pop at chess. I beat Pop two then Eugene played an unfinished game with a Mr. Berman. After supper at Mom's we went home. We read "Children Have Their Reasons" Ruth W. Washburn.

7/21 Lost to Weckworth. The kids played "cops" with a boy they met in the playground. The Dutch reopened warfare against Indonesia. Mrs. Ingalls was found guilty of enslaving her housemaid Dora Jones for thirty years. Lillian took the kids to see "The Yearling" at the "Grand". Walter Donaldson is dead.

That movie made a tremendous impression on me. I loved it, and remember the key parts well.  

7/22 The kids have been threading some sewing cards Lillian got them. American arms and American trained troops are being used in the fight against the Greek Chinese and Indonesian people. The "House" passed the Rep. Anti-Poll Tax bill 290-112 intended as a punishment of Southern failure to override the income tax veto. Queens bus drivers are striking in the face of O'Dwyer's strong opposition. They stopped negotiations charging the arbitrator was prejudiced.  

7/23 Assorted Nazis and renegades from Communism are having a field day before the "UnAmerican Comm." Haganah, on its own, is joining in violence against the British after the latest outrage. In the morning to the library where Eugene drew "Yankee Doodle's Cousins" by Anne Malcolmson, "The Secret Garden" by F. H. Burnett, "The Tale of the Wild Goose" by H.B. Kane and Sylvia chose "The Kitten Stand" by B. Coatsworth. In the afternoon, to the lake where we rowed and ate our supper on the grass. The kids sailed their boats and found some pop bottles which they filled with water. At night to meet Mac & Sarah at Goldman Band in Central Park. We heard an all-English program. Afterwards we had a bite in Stewarts.

Still don't know  who "Mac & Sarah [Horowitz]" are, and don't know "Stewarts". 

 7/24 Lost to Weckworth. Sylvia dawdles over her morning cereal endlessly. Eugene said Sylvia could do better than the kids who play chess in the play ground as she knows P-K4. Eight Burmese gov't officials were killed presumably by the rightist opposition. US and Russia had their bitterest quarrel over over the Balkan States which have left wing coalition gov'ts. R. J. Watt is dead at 55.

7/25 Tennis at Walton, then the Reservoir playground. Indonesia claims to have stopped the Dutch advance. We have been training our forces in atomic warfare. Unions are being subpoenaed by the "Thomas UnAmerican Comm." where the Communist issue is being aired. 15000 protested the British attacks on Jews at Madison Square. Lillian went to Van Cortlandt with the Pachmans.

7/26 Tennis at Walton, then the playground. When Eugene eats, the floor near him looks like a battlefield. We have decided to stop food relief to Poland. 27 miners were killed in W. Frankfort, Ill. May and the Garssons were let off with 8 months to two years for wartime bribes. Mary Ware Dennett is dead at 75.

7/13-7/19/47

7/13 Sunday Beat Greenwald & Alex                     . Took cab again to Woodlawn. Pop & Mom, Lilly & Susan, Sam & Molly up. Eugene played Alex G a couple of games then lost a game to Pop. I beat Pop a game. 16 nations participated in the opening of the Marshall Plan conference with 8 of the Soviet bloc rejecting invitations. Jimmy Lunceford is dead at 45.

He left space for "Alex"'s last name, but didn't fill it in. Don't know if "Alex G." was a different Alex, but clearly it was chess I was playing, vice Dad's tennis with "Greenwald & Alex". 

7/14 Beat Al Levitt. Greece claimed an International Brigade invaded it from Albania. 7 Negroes in a Brunswick Ga. prison camp were shot to death.

7/15 The kids made several rooms full of furniture and people on their table and played all morning. Later played some tennis with Eugene at the Walton cement courts. The Marshall Plan parley set up the following committees: Executive, food and agriculture, power, iron and steel, transport. Thousands more were arrested in Greece. All strike breaking attempts have been smashed at Remington Rand.

7/16 Played chess with Eugene, he playing a beautiful game. I barely averted a mate and won when Eugene overlooked a rook. Lillian played records for Sylvia. Another Negro died in the Ga. massacre. We will double Germany's industrial capacity, limiting only production of armaments. Greek arrests are rising. Testifying before Unscop, the Jewish C.P. of Palestine and Dr. Judah Magnes both recommended a bi-national state. The proposed Auto and Farm Equipment unions merger was defeated. Labor defied provisions of the slave bill by going all out for candidate Ed Garmatz in a special Congressional election, helping to elect him. Union papers with appeals for Garmatz were widely distributed. The "House" passed the Rees Bill aimed at the loyalty of federal employees. It permits summary discharges, no hearings for accused and is likened to the Nazi "thought control" laws. Lillian read Edna Ferber's autobiography "A Peculiar Treasure". Rocky Graziano won the middleweight title by KO'ing Tony Zale in 6 rounds.

7/17 Sylvia has been insisting on calling Aunt Mollie since she left her doll there a few days ago. When she got her on the phone she asked if her baby had been a good girl. Beat Eugene a game of 'rapid transit'. Marshall has pledged both arms and training for Greece to crush the guerrillas. All JAFRC leaders received $500. fines. Dr. Barsky received a six month prison sentence the others three months. However five who resigned and "purged" themselves received suspended sentences. These included Leveritt Gleason and Herman Shumlin. A Georgia official called the prison killings deliberate.

7/18 Lillian took the kids out to Evelyn this morning. The Browns signed two Negroes - W. Brown and H. Thompson and optioned Piper Davis. A general walkout at the Brooklyn Trust Co. ended in police violence. Lillian & Evelyn went to a wading pool where the kids had a good time. They got sneakers, plastic jeep, jumping rope, toy crib, bathinet author's game, etc.

7/19 Sylvia said if something or other doesn't happen she'll die. Eugene answered he couldn't die as he had no dyeing material. Then he said he was a punster. France has protested the projected rebuilding of Germany. Sec'y of War Patterson has resigned, K.C. Royall, Undersec'y replacing him. The UN investigating team found no evidence of an Intern'l Brigade in Greece. Truman's veto of a second tax bill was sustained by the Senate 51-36 after the "House" overrode it. The Army barred U.E. Union officials from 'secret' work at R.C.A. A Georgia jury cleared prison guards of the Negro massacre. The British boarded a Jewish refugee ship many being injured and some killed in a 2 1/2 hour battle. Lillian read "Outnumbered" by Katherine Hutter. The Nazis in Austria with a little mysticism thrown in. Read Rabelais. The Yanks tied the A.L. record of 19 straight victories.                            

7/6-7/12/47

7/6 Sunday Beat Kaminer & Zinderman at Woodlawn. We took lunch supper and lemonade. Played some chess with Pop and Eugene. Took a cab going up.

7/7 Eugene is enthusiastic that each day he can go higher on the monkey bars. Now he can climb to the top. Sylvia reached the top earlier. Spanish voters said "Ja" to Franco's rule for life except for the courageous minority who abstained. The NAACP and A.F.L. are girding to combat rent increases. The latest rage is saucer-shape object-spotting in the sky. Peron has asked for a declaration of peace saying he will help in rehabilitation and warning against extremists of the 'right' and 'left'. Unscop heard England denounced as exploiting the Jews economically in Palestine. In Athens the EAM & C.P. are allowed to function openly as window dressing. Lillian read "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" by James Barke, of Robert Burns life.

I'm curious why Dad wrote "Ja" instead of "Si". Was it just a slip of the pen?

7/8 Played a game with Eugene out of "Invitation to Chess" and found he knew many of the moves and much of the text by heart. At lunch Sylvia took her toy highchair and two children to the table. She fed some of her food to them in a plate then finished everything herself. Margaret Osborne beat Dori Hart in straight sets for the Wimbledon Singles. Friday we went to see "Design For Living" by Noel Coward with Jose Ferrer at the Windsor but walked out on it.

7/9 Sylvia seems to be getting more bashful and Eugene more aggressive in a make-believe way. Gromyko asked that all foreign troops leave Greece and the UN administer aid to it. The "House" voted a new tax bill by 302-112. It still favors the rich. Dennis was sentenced to one year in jail and $1000 fine. The A.L. all stars beat the N.L. 2-1. The City Council passed a hotel rent freeze 19-1. Coal miners signed a contract calling for the 8 hr. day and $13.05 per day plus other improvements.

The box score scanned in below was pasted in the middle of the above entry, with the note below "Doby's debut a few days ago". He clearly originally wrote "Dobie" (as he did a few days ago) but corrected in from the box score. 

7/10 Eugene drew "Billy and the Unhappy Bull" by M. DeJong "Paul Bunyan in the Army" by J. R. Inkslinger "The Tale of the Bullfrog" by H.B. Kane. Sylvia chose "Come Lasses & Lads". We both read Child Care and Training by Faegre & Anderson. I read Leland Stowe's "They Shall Not Sleep". His experiences in China & Russia plus an impassioned plea for an American post-war democratic policy. A big stolen Atom bomb plan scare has fizzled and died away. 7500 including leading Communists & Socialists have been arrested in Athens of the pretext of forestalling an uprising. The "House" finally released "Fascism in Action". Kramer & Falkenburg won the Wimbledon doubles beating

He didn't finish the last sentence. They beat Bill Sidwell and Tony Mottram in straight sets.

7/11 Sylvia's eating is much better now. Eugene's summer haircut makes him look very cute. All nations of the Soviet bloc have rejected invitations to the Marshall Plan parley.

7/12 This morning played tennis with the kids using the paddles. Sylvia is pretty good. Eugene has improved a lot and does very well. Evictions are rising. Lillian took the kids to the Duvac [?] wading pool where they enjoyed themselves.

Can't read the name of the wading pool, don't remember.

6/29-7/5/47

6/29 Sunday Up to Woodlawn where I beat Mencher & Waldman. Max Horowitz & Sarah also came up. We took lunch and supper and a jug of Virginia Dare drink. Also went up to the spring. Unscop is being received enthusiastically by the Jews but boycotted by the Arabs. Lucius Boomer is dead at 68.

The "spring" was an outflow of water, from a pipe, in the woods at Woodlawn. Don't know the origin, but the water was ice cold. 

6/30 Beat Weckworth. Eugene is devouring comic books. Sylvia seems to be clinging to mother more than ever, again. Russia has asked that the Marshall Plan be placed under UN control. Weinstock has finally been defeated for re-election.

7/1 Sylvia went down to the yard but because Lillian didn't look out of the window she stood there crying till we called her up. Eugene weight 61 lbs h't 4 ft 3 in. Syl w't 49 h't 3 ft 8 in.A fascist plot to overthrow the gov't has been discovered in France. The plotters had intended to invoke an imminent Communist revolution as an excuse. Court of Appeals upheld the acquittal of the seditionists. Mines were returned to their owners upon expiration of the Smith-Connally law. Truman signed but assailed the phony rent Bill under which rent control expires Feb. 29 48. NAACP convention closed with an implied anti-communist statement. Truman spoke during the parley. Wimbledon quarters saw Kramer beat Geoff Brown in straight sets, Tom Brown beat Petra in straight sets, Young [sic] Budge Patty beat Drobny in five sets after his upset of Bromwich and Dinny Pails beat Bob H Falkenburg in five sets. We took up the rug today.

7/2 Lillian took the kids to Molly's yesterday meeting Lilly Altschuler there. Eugene made a conquest in the park today. Sylvia keeps using threats to have her way with us. The French plotters had intended to suppress the trade unions and the C.P. execute strikers and give religious freedom only to Protestants & Catholics. Russia is asking for all information on the Marshall Plan before any commitments are made. It is also asking priority in aid for the victims of Nazi aggression and the German problem be omitted. The Mayor's Comm. has unanimously [voted] for a referendum on an 8¢ fare. The W.F.T.U. has just finished a conference at Prague. German trade unions were reluctantly admitted. A protest was sent to the Greek gov't on its persecution of the trade unions. China has outlawed the C.P. and is out to arrest Mao Tse Tung.

What was my conquest? A girl? A chess game? Knock-hockey?

7/3 After lunch to 42nd st. We visited two amusement centers. Seeing movies, playing hockey, basketball, baseball, soccer, shooting airplanes and driving a car. Also took a picture of the kids, all mechanically done. We had drinks, custard and a box of candy, then went to the laff.-movie-38¢ where we saw a half dozen cartoons, Mickey Mouse, etc. and several comedies - The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, etc. The kids enjoyed the distorting mirrors outside also. Landlords are rushing to raise rents. The Paris conference broke up as Molotov charged dictation by the "Big Powers". Bevin & Bedault will ask European countries to collaborate on the Marshall Plan. Several Generals have been involved in the French "Black Maquis" plot. Marshall has denied we back Chiang following an 130,000,000 bullet sale to China. At Wimbledon, Kramer beat Pails in four sets and Tom Brown beat Budge Patty in straight sets.

7/4 Yesterday Eugene drew "Aesop's Fables", Pyle's "Robin Hood", Picture Book of Insects by A. T. Gaul and Sylvia chose "This is The Milk That Jack Drank" by W. R. Scott. To Woodlawn where I beat Mencher & Kaminer. Lillian & Sylvia wore their mother & daughter pinafores, which Lillian had just made. Sam & Molly & Pop & Lilly Susan also there. Unions are announcing they will boycott the new N.L.R.B. Major League's second Negro player Larry Dobie [sic] has been signed by Cleveland. Eugene played Pop some chess at the park.

 7/5 Today we went downtown via the 3rd Ave. local and then took the S.I. ferry. Spent a half hour in S.I. taking some snapshots before returning. Truman & Marshall have denied we wish to interfere with other nation's affairs or are following an imperial course. Former Rep. May and the Garsson brothers have been found guilty of bribery in munition contracts during the war. May took $53,000 for using his influence. He is a foremost red-baiter. Ramadier has won a vote of confidence by 82 votes. Lillian read "Trumpet to the World" by Mark Harris and "Flowering Judas" - short stories by K. Anne Porter. Kramer beat Tom Brown in straight sets to win the Wimbledon tournament.

6/22-6/28/47

6/22 Sunday Beat Phyllis G. In the afternoon to Ida's for Sandra's graduation party. Present, the Goode, A. Edelstein, B. Edelstein, Becker, Thaw, Bardes families and Sadie S. We saw movies by Edeen and had a good spread. In the evening, Sam Mencher over for a nice conversational evening.

We still don't know how the Goodes were related. And we don't know who Sadie S. was. 

6/23 Split with Weckworth [?]. The Int'l Comm for Study of European Questions including Herriot & Vansittart found no rebirth of Nazism in the British & American Zones in Germany, in Argentina, So.  Africa and Italy. Police arrested many fascists in Italy. Riggs won the Pro title over Budge 3-6, 6-3, 10-8, 4-6, 6-3.

6/24 Eugene had the job of taking the vowels off the wall in school and putting the thumb tacks in a box. Sylvia is playing with little Norma G. The Senate overrode Truman's veto of the Taft Hartley bill to bring America nearer to fascism than ever before. The vote was 68-25. Three Republicans voted to sustain. All labor is determined to resist the law. Russia has agreed to meet Friday with England and France in Paris to discuss the Marshall Plan. Unscop recommended commutation for three sentenced to death by the British in Palestine. Ramadier's fiscal program was passed by the Finance Commission 22-18 with 6000 workers demonstrating against it.

6/25 Sylvia made believe she was in a beauty parlor and cut off a lot of her hair but she wouldn't confess until assured she wouldn't get a spanking, when she said "Ohhhhh! Yes, I did it." Eugene is helping Mrs. Dwyer after school every day. We went to Bronx Park today playing some ball then having a picnic supper. Eugene spied a sign pointing to the Rose Gardens. Getting there we were overwhelmed by an exquisite sight. Lillian especially was in ecstasies over the rows on rows of tremendous vari-colored redolent roses. Eugene showed enthusiasm also. We didn't dare to pick anything but on the way home we picked some wild roses and buds. Miners are pouring out in protest against the slave law. All Italian labor is protesting the murder of four Sicilian Communists by fascist elements. China has charged Russia is arming the Chinese Communists. The A.V.C. convention saw a more moderate trend with right-wingers winning the elections about 2-1. 638 2nd Ave. caved in with four families escaping when warned by an alert passer-by. We swap with the Pachmans now, Herby sitting while we saw Joe Cotten & Loretta Young in a light satire on machine politics. Also "The Devil Thumbs a Ride". Riggs & Budge won the "Pro" doubles.

I remember the Rose Garden; at least I remember an overwhelming surprise visit to one.

6/26 Eugene goes to school and comes home by himself now. Sylvia has a toy baby bottle which she fills with water and feeds to her babies. China is even too corrupt to get a loan from us now. Balkan states were blamed by the UN Investigating Comm. for instigating civil war in Greece.

6/27 Beat Mencher. Eugene got his report card on this last day of school. Satisfactory in all personal traits and A in behavior A in Reading Comp, & Spelling B+ in Arith. Satisfactory in Pen., Health Ed, Art, Music, Nature, Sewing A in Achievement. Dennis has been convicted of contempt of Congress after Marc. testified for him. The jury was out 5 hours. The maximum penalty is 1 year prison & $1000 fine. The Transit Board fired two union leaders & suspended two others for the slowdown. Shipbuilders are now striking. Bethlehem is out with others to follow. Put up our lock today, with Ernsts's help. Hawaii has been voted the 49th state.

I assume "Pen." was "Penmanship". 

6/28 JAFRC Exec Board members were found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records. G. Eisler was also convicted of the same offense (contempt of Congress) and sentenced to 1 yr. prison and $1000 fine. Carl Marzani was sentenced to 1-3 years in prison following his discharge from the State Dept. for false statements to the gov't. The C.I.O. asked for a parley of all labor on the slave bill.

6/15-6/21/47

6/15 Sunday Over to mom's for Father's day. We brought some summer ties and a chess set. I got a sweat shirt. Eugene beat pop a game and I won one from the two of them. Harry & Lil took us home, then we went over to St. James where I beat Camilli. Another plane has been lost with 50 aboard. Willy Turnesa & Babe Didrickson have won the British golf titles. Lillian read the biographical novel of Jessie Benton Fremont "Immortal Wife" by Irving Stone. Lillian was highly impressed with this book. Read London's fiery "Iron Heel" of the coming proletarian revolution.

6/16 Discovered in Eugene's book today.

                                            When I Grow Up


      When I grow up, I am going to be a doctor. I would like to be one because I like to cure people. I hope I can have a good nurse too. I will never, never refuse to help anybody. I will make a lot of money, too. Unless I am specially needed, I will have a holiday on Saturday and Sunday. I will live in a g[?] house, too.

 [see scanned in page of my writing]

6/16 Lillian is discussing Sylvia's coming entry into kindergarden in September. O'Dwyer in a reversal will campaign for a 7¢ fare in order to save vital services for the city. Dwight Griswold, Rep. has been named administrator of the Greek Turkish aid funds by Truman. Norman Armour has replaced Braden as Sec'y for Inter-Amer. affairs. Lew Worsham has defeated Sam Snead in a playoff by one stroke in a playoff for the Nat'l Open Golf Championship.

6/17 Beat Mencher. Eugene made a napkin ring in school. Sylvia finished everything in her picnic bag while I played this morning. Marshall's plan to confer with European countries on their economic needs to be supplied by us is causing much debate. 10000 heard Wallace speak in Wash D.C. in spite of Rep. O Kusku's [?] Anti-Communist Assoc'n and the "UnAmercan Comm." Truman vetoed the rich men's tax bill with the "House" today sustaining him. C.I.O. seamen struck today after a futile attempt to gain[?] control with the shipowners. The seamen are sitting in. Lillian read "Taps for Private Tussie" by Jessie Stuart which she enjoyed. Bronislaw Huberman is dead at 64.

6/18 Eugene insisted on sending for a booklet on how to get strong by Chas. Atlas. Sylvia has a little cold. Palestine Investigating Comm. of the UN held its first session. The vetocade arrived in Washington.

6/19 To Van Cortlandt again after school with the boats and supper. We rowed again and then had our picnic supper near the old cemetery. Two tombstones still legible were put up in 1790. We played ball and the kids romped. We brought home some different flowers this time. O John Rogge fired by Clark as Ass't U.S. Attorney is defending the 16 leaders of the J.A.F.R.C. under fire of the UnAmerican Comm. The War Dept. is planning to publish material slandering the C.P. in a flip flop from its position a year ago. It is also proposed to deny veterans benefits to Communists.

6/20 Beat Loeb. Sylvia had a birthday party for her Susan with the other doll and the bunny attending. Eugene is uncertain of his sewing mark as he lost his needle. Michigan has passed the "Callahan Bill" allowing the Attorney Gen'l to designate subversives who must register. Ewell Blackwell young Cincinnati pitcher hurled a no-hit no run game. Seamen ratified a pact giving them a 5% raise and other advances ending the nationwide tie up.

6/21 Eugene drew Creswick's "King Arthur" "John Henry and the Double Jointed Steam-Drill" by Irwin Shapiro "Fun With Science" by Mae & Ira Freeman and for Sylvia "Here Comes Daddy" by W. Milius. After lunch Lillian took the kids to St. James to see a marionette show of Hansel & Gretel. 17 Elas fighters against the Nazis were executed to inaugurate the Truman Doctrine going into effect. Truman vetoed the Taft Hartley Slave labor bill giving nine objections. These included the following points. It would increase strikes, discriminate against workers, deprive them of previous protections, restrict collective bargaining and mar employee management relations. The "House" immediately over-rode Truman in a stampede 331-83. It is probably the most reactionary body we ever had. A strong debate is going on in the Senate.

6/8-6/14/47

6/8 Sunday Merrill has resigned his UOPWA presidency. Former Argentine ambassador Braden has resigned his State Dep't post & Messersmith has resigned as Ambassador to Argentina after bringing that country and ours closer together. Max & Anne brought Barbara over while they went to a wedding. Arlene D. came up to play with them while Eugene went to a synagogue show with the Gallins. Barbara brought a pair of pants for Eugene and a skirt for Sylvia. Lillian has made a yarn bag, pillow case, shoe bag, aprons and many other things with her new machine. Hy N. came over to lose two chess games to me.

Don't know who "Hy N." was; does not appear to be family.

6/9 American firms which cooperated with the IG Farben cartel were named by Sen. Kilgore. These included Alcoa, Dow Chem., Dupont, Standard Oil Co. of N.J. Camel workers won their 5 week strike getting 8¢ per hr. raise plus other advances. After school we went up to Van Cortlandt lake, Eugene taking his new sail-boat and Sylvia her canoe. It was a gorgeous day. We took a rowboat out at only 35¢ per hour and had a wonderful time, the kids sailing their boats while we rowed. We picked some pretty flowers along the shore watched the N.Y. Central trains pass right by us and Eugene tried his hand at rowing. At home, I took a shower with the kids, they washing each others backs. While rowing, Eugene continually asserted his boat was capasizing [sic]. Sylvia went him one better when she said hers was uppasizing [sic]. At night we walked all over Fordham stopping for delicious Sundaes at Krums. French railroad strike is being supported by the Catholic trade unions as well as the C.P. Lillian read the O'Henry Memorial stories - 1939.

I remember the rowing well. Dad took a picture of Mom, Sylvia and me in the boat, which they had colorized and enlarged. I'll have to find it and scan it in.  

6/10 While Eugene is amenable Sylvia is stubborn with a strong will and cannot be deterred from doing what she is set on without violence. I often clash with her. Utility workers are now striking in Paris. Miners are striking against the slave bill.

Interesting that Dad made almost the same comment about Sylvia on 5/25.  

6/11 Beat Camilli. Sylvia turns now as she hits at the ball with the paddle and does very well. Eugene gets his Weekly Reader by mail. Over 100000 marched in the C.I.O. Veto Day Parade. At the Garden speakers included O'Dwyer, Murray, Rabbi Wise, Curran, Mills, Gold, Hollander, Quill, etc. Gerhard Eisler was found guilty of contempt of Congress in a U.S. District Court in a verdict taking five minutes. Judge Holtzoff told the jury the only question was did Eisler refuse to take the oath to testify before the Un-American Comm. Eisler had wanted to make a 3-minute statement first at that time. It is charged in Hungary that Nagy had asked Dean Acheson for the Truman Doctrine to be applied there and Acheson had agreed. The TWU met with B of Trans officials and agreed to halt the slowdown. The latter has met two requests of the union but will retain charges against 4 T.W.U. men.

When teaching us to play tennis, he always emphasized "turn and step in". 

6/12 Sylvia and I wave to each other when I take Eugene across at noon and she is at the window. Today, I apologized "I forgot all about you, will you forgive me". She answered "You even forgot I was in your fambily [sic]?" Arnold P. won't lend Eugene any more "Buddy" books because Sylvia tore the cover. Eugene says he'll never play with him again. A U.S. note charged Russia with "flagrant interference" in Hungary and violation of the Yalta pact. China protested to Russia on the invasion of Sinkiang by Outer Mongolian troops with Russian planes protection. Judge Holtzoff has been barred from presiding at the JAFRC trial for not denying prejudice. High prices instigated by the NAM were found guilty in a "trial" by civic leaders.

The window incident is surprising to me, since he would have been taking me across Kingsbridge Road, and I only remember one window with a very restricted view of the road, and nowhere near the corner.

6/13 Beat Loeb. Sylvia took a shower by herself yesterday. Eugene had a great time playing cops and robbers yesterday. Judge Holtzoff disqualified himself for Eisler's second trial. Rent rises were allowed to "Metropolitan" projects. 23 Deputies of Petkov's Agrarian party were expelled from the Bulgarian Parliament charged with collaborating with him. We bought a bed for Eugene for $15 from Mrs. Monka.

6/14 Sylvia wanted to go down for a container of milk, but her face at the door was contorted because of the conflict between her desire to go and her fear. Eugene in reading the library book of the daddies and what they do has memorized virtually all the verses. An AFL-C.I.O. motorcade is crossing the continent from California to Wash. D.C. and growing larger. It is a veto demonstration. Meat has taken a sudden splurge up. Home sugar has been taken off the ration list. Georgia has ordered the Klan dissolved.

6/1-6/7/47

6/1 Sunday Eugene's lapses are apparently due to the emotional strain following chess playing. We went to Woodlawn today with the Rosenbergs in their car, having lunch and supper there. Pop came over late. Played a game of chess with Eugene then beat Sheib at tennis while Eugene played in the Sand box. Later he played some chess with a "Cy" who praised his playing.

6/2 Split with Al Levitt. When I finished playing Sylvia was sulking on a bench. A boy had hit her, she said. Martial law was declared in China in answer to a threatened general strike for peace. J. Dinnyes has replaced Nagy as Hungarian premier. Six months compulsory military service was asked of all 18 years old. Jimmy Wilson is dead at 46.

6/3 Norma G., 3 is here playing with Sylvia. They get along nicely. Eugene's jobs in school are door closer, attendance taker and News of the Class on Monday. We have suspended credits to Hungary after their "red coup". 1200 have been jailed in China for anti war strikes. Rent control has been extended to Dec with a 15% "voluntary" increase after that date in the Senate bill just passed. Building controls on new homes are also eliminated.

6/4 Drew for Eugene "Robin Hood: His Book" by Tappan, Paul Bunyan Swings the Axe by D.J. McCormick and two suitable for Sylvia "Daddies: What they do all day" by H.W. Paner [?] and The Man in the Manhole by Sage and Ballantine. Played ball with the kids in the park using the paddles. England has announced a plan for dominion status and probably partition for India. Mayor O'Dwyer who proclaimed today "Veto Day" will participate in the Garden meeting sponsored by the A.F.L.The Senate passed the tax bill which cuts taxes especially for the rich 48-28, We saw "Swell Guy" with Sonny Tufts and "Stairway to Heaven" with David Niven hovering between heaven and earth, love & earth winning.

Could not verify the name and author of Sylvia's first book.

6/5 Beat Al Levitt. Sylvia hung around the fence near the court on which I was playing. The House passed the Hartley-Taft bill 320-79 in the face of all labor opposition. The A.F.L. "Garden" rally heard O'Dwyer, Magnuson, Dubinsky, Green speak against the slave bill. Lilly read "The Monument" by Pamela H. Johnson. Eugene was participating in Arnold P.'s homework and the latter said Eugene was smarter than some boys in his 4B class which made Eugene feel good. Stayed home today due to my upset stomach.

6/6 Sylvia has gotten into the habit of drinking half of her milk at lunch and finishing it later as she is too full. Eugene finally got his -3 table. H. Wallace in N. Car. attacked the Hartley Taft bill, our intervention in France & Italy, the Truman Doctrine, Argentine friendship and our war-dance. Truman attacked the Hungarian "coup". The Senate ratified the peace treaties with Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania.

6/7 Several Hungarian ministers abroad have refused to recognize the new Hungarian gov't. N. Petkov, Bulgarian opposition leader to the coalition gov't has been arrested. These moves may be retaliation against U.S. pressure on several countries to oust communists. The Senate passed the slave bill 54-17. Wallace has announced he will not support Truman in '48. The "Unamerican Comm." recently announced after a ten minute study that there is no fascist menace in America. Subway workers put on a one hour stoppage at the IRT shop. This was the culmination of a dispute between the weak Civil Service Forum and the T.W.U. Eugene this morning found poems for Sylvia in all the Books of Knowledge and "put in" pieces of paper to keep the places for her. I am in 2B. I am now learning borrowing. [my handwriting, see scanned in page]

5/25-5/31/47

5/25 Sunday Sylvia has a strong will and cannot be deterred from anything she sets her mind on by anything short of violence. Today my will and hers clashed several times she ending up in the back bedroom each time. To bring the sun out and end the rain the kids called on Hercules, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Jack of the Giant killer and beanstalk variety. Later we had a circus both kids and myself performing. Played Eugene "Cargo" and Lillian read Sylvia from the "Tall Mother Goose".

5/26 Both kids are building with the Erector set. Eugene helps Sylvia. When Sylvia finishes her meals she is so bloated she has to lie down often. Eugene loves to make mock savage swings or thrusts at people preferably with something in his hand. Giant shortstop Buddy Kerr made his first error in 69 games and 385 chances to make a new record. Laura Hobson's novel on anti-semitism has become the best seller. Dickens' Great Expectations filmed in England has won the highest praise.

5/27 Played some tennis with Gloria                . The kids went to Bobby R's sixth birthday party. Jeffrey M., Cookie K., Betty Ann L. Arline D. also there. They saw movies. Sylvia must have overeaten. At bed time she had a belly ache and was exhausted. [...] Also played some rapid transit with Eugene. General Mark Clark arriving from Austria denounced Russia's actions there as non cooperative and claimed they were depleting his resources. Godwin Bush seized by a mob from a N. Car. jail escaped and surrendered to the F.B.I. Russia has abolished capital punishment.

He left space after "Gloria", as if he was going to later fill in a last name. 

5/28 Put Sylvia in school and stayed around but she still was unhappy so I had to take her out of the circle. 49 Nazis were hung for atrocities at a concentration camp. Dictator Somoza has seized Nicaragua again after ten years of rule ended on May 1. Transport workers are in a slowdown on protest against unsatisfactory employer relations. Marine General Carlson is dead at 51.

5/29 Eugene missed school this morning when Lillian overslept. He loves to snarl and claw like a wild beast. Eugene got shoes at Alexanders yesterday Size 2 1/2 EE. $6.42. Seven men arrested on the charge of kidnapping and intended lynching of Buddy Bush were released on $2500 bail. The British Labor Party in session, intends to make a large trade agreement with Russia rather than a loan from the U.S. Beat Levy.

5/30 Saw the end of the parade with the kids. Sam & Molly and Mike Evelyn and Isabel over for dinner. Then to the aqueduct for the afternoon. The girls got along very nicely. Eugene got a boat and Sylvia a play pen with two dolls in it. Played some chess with Sam. Evelyn and Isabel stayed over, Sylvia and Eugene sleeping in Eugene's day bed and Isabel sleeping in Sylvia's junior bed. Bevin won a vote of confidence at the Labor Party Conference. The Senate approved a 15% rent increase. Newsmen left the N. Car. lynch town after their lives were threatened. An airliner crashed at LaGuardia Field with 38 killed.

5/31 In the morning to the playground where Isabel climbed to the top of the monkey bars. All the kids went on the adult swings. Isabel is light as a feather, lively and saucy and cute. She eats a little better. Evelyn went home after supper. Hungarian Premier Nagy resigned while vacationing in Switzerland. He is accused of an anti-gov't plot. De Gasperi has formed a new Italian gov't, without the left bowing to U.S. pressure and bribery. Aviation's blackest day saw crashes in Japan, Iceland, Holland and Alaska and 58 killed in a Maryland plane catastrophe.

5/18-5/24/47

5/18 Sunday We went out for a walk Eugene as usual complaining he wa tired. In the house Sylvia played with Arlene D. Played chess with Eugene he pulling a mate after falling behind. The kids played tiddledy-winks and Eugene built a hoist with his set.

5/19 Left Sylvia in school and left. When I came back I found she had been crying all the time. Said it was because I hadn't told her I was leaving. Dictator Trujillo was re-elected in the Dominican Republic. Hal Chase is dead at 64. Lillian read O'Brien best of '48.

It looks like "'48", don't understand what it refers to. 

5/20 Sylvia can almost sense our "loving houses" and rushes to join them immediately. Eugene complained his whole class was going to be "kept in" on account of one boy. Eugene drew Baldwin's "Fairy Stories and Fables" "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" by Dr. Seuss "True Monkey Stories" by F.M. Fox and "The Jolly Tailor" by Borski & Miller (Polish Fairy Tales). Three were freed in the lynch trial and seven had murder charges dropped. LaGuardia's sabotage squad had 28 cops working in the C.P. it is claimed. This was in '39. Togliatti is challenging charges of getting gold from Moscow and turning Socialists over to the fascists. Visited Hy & Milly N. spending a pleasant evening. Lost a chess game there after leading all the way. A report was released showing a potential germ warfare far worse than the atom bomb! 38 diseases can be disseminated by air.

5/21 Sylvia has been busy cutting paper dolls and dressing them since Lilly got her a book yesterday. Gloria S. came in to ask Lillian to do her hair since her mother was not home. Eugene told me he didn't want to walk back to school with her because she didn't like him. However she asked him to do so. Director of Airports Haslett and Deputy Comm. Brody have been suspended or ousted in illegal activities. Two were killed as 6000 Chinese students demonstrated for an end to the Civil war. Germans are starving but huge black market hoards are being uncovered. Prosecutor Watt made an impassioned plea for death penalties for 28 white men on trial for lynching a Negro.

5/22 Sylvia propounded the question - If there are two babies and all the people die who will take care of the babies? Several families on relief have been sheltered in hotels due to the lack of living quarters at a high cost it is disclosed. The "House" voted 350 million for foreign relief. All 28 lynchers were acquitted in a case which was great progress in the South. However Jim-Crow was observed in the court-room and many racial and provocative statements were made by the defense. Lillian went to Bklyn to get some sewing machine attachments and came home with several small things she had picked up.

5/23 Eugene and Sylvia together again. When Sylvia went to the zoo with Molly, she complained Molly ate more pop-corn than she did. Chinese Communists are surrounding the Manchurian capital of Changchun.

5/24 When Sylvia insisted on keeping a glass of water all during a meal she was sent out of the room. Soon she came running back saying "What do I need your water, I got a drink in the bathroom". Eugene was supposed to bring 12¢ to school but has failed to turn it in several days. He says Mrs Dwyer told him to put his hand down when he raised it. A N. Car. mob has kidnapped a Negro from jail. The UN Balkan Comm. supported Greece as against Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania in the Balkan dispute 9-2. Russia and Poland were in the minority. Read Shirley Graham's "There Once was a Slave". Stirring biography of Frederick Douglas in novelized form.

5/11-5/17/47

5/11 Sunday Played some tennis this morning with Klubock & Dohlmann while Lillian went to the cemetery. Later to mom's for Mother's Day bringing a nightgown. The kids and I gave Lillian a box of candy. Eugene made a beautiful card. Lilly Yudowitz came up to see mother also. Lillian read "Only an inch from Glory" by A. Halper. Jackie Robinson is having some trouble with the Dodgers, receiving threatening letters. Some players, especially St Louis Cardinals were said to be planning a strike against him.

5/12 Left Sylvia in playground school and when I didn't return by the time class finished I found her crying. Auto layoffs are starting. Unemployment relief rolls are rising. Lillian took Eugene down to get his final exam for new lenses. They will be $3.75. I played some tennis with A. Lavender while Sylvia played with her carriage and ball and ate cookies. Saw two old pictures "It Happened Tomorrow" with Dick Powell, Darnell & Oakie & "The Circular Staircase" [actually, "The Spiral Staircase"] with Dot Maguire & George Brent. Read "The Portable Poe".

5/13 This morning I beat Levy while Sylvia went to school. Wallace in a speech called the Anti-Communist drive a disgrace. There is great unrest in Shanghai with strikes rice riots against a hunger diet. Palestine independence will not be discussed in the UN investigation of the Palestine problem. Under Sec'y of State Acheson has resigned due to financial reasons. R. A. Lovett banker will replace him. A mass trial of 31 white men accused in the lynching of Willy Earle opened in Greenville, S.C. The Army will get instructions in combatting [sic] and directing Communism.

5/14 Eugene was holding a stone in the street and of course it ended in Gloria S. & he throwing stones at each other. They vowed not to play with each other again. Sylvia goes down to play with Norma G, but will not go to Bobby R's house. Italian premier DeGasperi resigned again when right wingers were barred from the gov't. Struck flour mills were seized by the French gov't. The "Big 5" were barred from the comm. of inquiry on the Palestine problem. The Taft slave-labor bill was passed by the Senate 68-24. Southern Dems voted for it. Only 3 Republicans opposed it. At the lynch trial many confessions were read. R.C. Hurd was accused of being the trigger man. Kesselring was condemned to die in Italy. Schacht received 8 years in prison as an old Nazi.

5/15 Sylvia has discovered what can be done with a ball. She's doing a lot of bouncing in the house. Last night I found a chart of a chess mate Eugene had left with instructions to me to print my name, also give address, state, zone number and City. Gromyko at the UN G.A. advocated a bi-national state independent in Palestine. He favored partition only as a last resort. The American and English zones of Germany are in a crisis due to food lack. Truman signed the so-called Portal-to-Portal act which actually undermines working standards. Thousands are striking at the Reynolds "Camel" plant. Foster returned from Europe, charged Wall Street is intervening in the affairs of the new European democracies, before 17000 at the "Garden".

5/16 Played some tennis with the girls. Later Molly came over to take Sylvia to the zoo. Sylvia said she would stay with Molly for five days. Eugene is supposed to see a puppet show this afternoon in school. Many statements are being read at the S.C. lynch trial confessing to participating in the mob action. Australia, Canada, Czecho., India, Iran, Netherlands, Peru, Sweden & Yugo will comprise the comm. to investigate the Palestine situation. The A.Y.D. is under attack nationally as a communist front. Wallace, Robeson and R.J. Thomas spoke at a great P.C.A. meeting before 22000 in Chicago.

5/17 This morning the kids with Bobby R did tricks on the monkey bars at St. James. 100 B-29 Superforts "bombed" N.Y.C. yesterday in a mock attack. Liberals are winning municipal elections throughout the country. The C.I.O. Exec. board named a comm. to run the Mill & Smelter union until unity is restored. Both factions were rapped. Secessionist red-baiter Driscoll was removed from his post. The Shipbuilders union was asked to withdraw the charters they had given to the secessionists. All "phone" workers have returned. Raises were about $4. per week.

5/4-5/10/47

5/4 Sunday To mother's for dinner, also Lil Harry & Susan. We had "blintzes" and "gefilte fish". Eugene beat Pop two chess games, the second a last minute 'steal'. Then I won a game against Eugene & Pop. We walked home Eugene as usual complaining of being tired. Eight Italian 'May Day' marchers were killed by bombs.

5/5 Drew for Eugene "The Lion-Hearted Kitten" by Peg Bacon, "Indians of the Wigwams" by the Demings and "The Monkey With a Notion" By G. O. Blough. Hundreds of Army prisoners rioted at Ft. Leavenworth reputedly because of the Jim crow practiced there. The French Cabinet ousted C.P. Ministers after Ramadier won a vote of confidence 360-186. Only the C.P. opposed while 62 rightists abstained. The issue was the wage and prize [sic] freeze program of the gov't. The C.P. is the largest party. Four independent telephone unions ordered their members back to work with a $4. raise - in New York. In Washington A.T.&T. rejected a gov't proposal for a $5.14 increase. The Hapoel soccer team of Palestine defeated the American League all-stars 2-0 before 43000 fans at the Yankee Stadium. 250 Jewish prisoners were freed in a Jerusalem raid by the underground.

5/6 Eugene is in the first group in reading and arithmetic. Sylvia started to cry several times today for various reasons. French labor unions are supporting the C.P. wage stand. We are reported to offer help if the C.P. is kept out of the Cabinet permanently. The Italian treaty is in the news now. It would necessitate large Italian reparations and withdrawal of Allied troops. Four 'phone' unions have ordered their members to pass picket lines. Stassen declared peace possible without appeasement after his interview with Stalin. He called for a positive American policy. 24 I.G. Farben leaders were indicted for aggressive warfare, murder, slavery and plunder. Seven Polish youths were killed by bombs during "May Day" ceremonies. Lil & Harry gave me a sport shirt for my birthday. Lil took the kids down to the City Center Hall to a bazaar run by the Natl Council of Amer-Sov Friendship where they saw "The Three Bears" down [?] by Bufone's puppeteers. Sylvia got a "beautiful wove bag". Fred Woltman won a Pulitzer prize for "exposing Communism". He is a fitting successor to Pegler. The Supreme Court has upheld search without warrant in connection with an arrest 5-4. Chief Justice Vinson wrote the affirmative opinion Murphy and Frankfurter led the minority. Chinese Communists have suddenly broken into the news again with big victories. Thousands of Basques are on strike in terror ridden Spain after May Day repressions. Louise Homer is dead at 76.

That line about Pegler is an rare editorial comment!

In Book 9 of the diary, I found something I wrote on this day. See the entry for "11/29-12/3/53"

5/7 We kept Eugene out of school today to have his eyes checked at the Coop. Opticians. He needs new lenses. We also bought a portable rebuilt Singer sewing machine with a new motor for $59.50. Also "Invitation to Chess" by Harkness & Chernev. At supper Sylvia brought her high chair and doll to the table and Lillian served her also. Mac & Sarah Horowitz over for a pleasant evening. The Albany ban on the Robeson concert was voided by the courts. A witch-hunt among city employees was asked by Councilman Clemente. Read Edgar Snow's "Stalin Must Have Peace". How to get along with Russia. Lillian read Laura Hobson's "Trespasser" [sic]. Plight of the refugees which she enjoyed very much (the book). Jet Pilot won the Kentucky Derby.

Don't know who the Horowitz's were.

5/8 Eugene is reading the new chess book. Sylvia gets a ball from Barney when she goes with me for balls. The Brazilian Electoral Tribunal has outlawed the C.P. 3-2. President Dutra simultaneously outlawed the General Confed. of Brazilian Workers.  The French S.P. supported Premier Ramadier's ousting of the C.P. Cabinet Members 2529-2125. Rev K. R. Williams is the first Negro Councilman to be elected since Reconstruction. Congress has eliminated funds for State Dept. foreign information and broadcasting. It has also cut foreign relief 40% but granted the F.B.I. its full request of $35,000,000. Two Oklahoma state legislators shot it out in a feud. The Senate defeated a ban on industry wide collective bargaining 44-43.

5/9 Sylvia got brown shoes in Alexanders 12E $5.19. [...] 500 C.P. met in their "First Nat'l Encampment" in Wash DC. The Senate voted against union administered health and welfare funds and the check-off unless individually authorized 48-40. Sarah Palfrey Cooke and Pauline Betz turned "Pro" after suspensions for "pro" activity.

5/10 This [see scanned-in image] is the comic strip in P.M. which Eugene likes most. Every day after reading it he enthusiastically tells me the latest development. Sylvia likes to play with Lillian she is a mother and discuss with her their children and housework. The "House" approved the Greek Turkey Aid Bill 289-107. Renault strikers returned after getting a production bonus as originally advocated by the C.P. C.P. vets in Wash DC were received by some officials and congressmen. They reported their interviews at a meeting attended by 2000. A bill to permit employees to sue unions for damages on jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts was passed by the Senate 65-26. CIO Fishermens union officials were found guilty of practices covered by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

I don't remember this comic strip.

4/27-5/3/47

4/27 Sunday Last night Lillian exploded an aerosol bomb taking everything out of the kitchen. In the morning Eugene and Sylvia helped Lillian bring back, wash and dry the dishes. Eugene especially was delighted to help. Later we went out for lunch to the Chinese Restaurant on Jerome Ave. near Fordham Rd. We had chow mein dinners and the kids had one portion of pot roast but one each of soup, milk and ice cream. Total cost $2.45 + 40¢ tip. Leaving, we took the bus to the Zoo where we saw the elephants eat popcorn, bag and all. At home played Eugene a tough chess game - unfinished each having a strong attack against the other, threatening mate against the other in one or two moves. Lillian and Sylvia played house. Newburyport Mass. merchants have started a small scale price reduction spree after Truman's request. Saskatchewan has outlawed discrimination of any kind.

This is the first mention of that Chinese Restaurant, called, as I remember, the "ABC Restaurant", which we went to often over the years. Always fascinated by the menu with so many things on it, but I don't remember our parents ever ordering anything but chow mein. 

4/28 Eugene came home dry today after having had an accident every day last week. We don't know why he had been doing [it] or why he stopped. Perhaps it was the things we offered him if he raised his hand. He told us however he hadn't needed to go today. Sylvia went to "school" but started to cry when school ended without her getting a chance at skipping and jumping. Several more large Corps. fell in with the new wage raise "pattern".

4/29 Last night at work my vaccination "got" me having a headache and chills. Today after lunch felt very tired and got chills again. I went to bed with 100° fever staying home from work. Slept and perspired from some tea and aspirin then got up for supper feeling better. Finished a postponed chess game with Eugene which I barely won then played another in which after I mated him but gave him another chance he mated me. At Sylvia's bedtime she and Lillian gave each other bottles and drops in make believe. Marshall on returning home reported Russia was to blame for the parley's stalemate but held out hope for success. The main disagreement is on what to do with Germany. Russia wants 4 power control of the vital Ruhr with reparations from its industries. Wallace on his return said we are on the road to ruthless imperialism although not yet there. He sees no Soviet aggression in Greece and is against the witch hunt at home. Western telephone strikers rejected a company offer of a $2.50 per week raise. Lillian went shopping around with Pauline P. tonight. We both read "Only Yesterday", F. L. Allan's psychological explanation of the 20's, Lillian also read Mann's "Buddenbrooks" which was merely good. A special session of the UN General Assembly opened with a Comm. chosen [?] headed by D. Aranha of Brazil. The main business will be the Palestine issue. Japanese elections saw the C.P. make a weak showing and Social Democrats gain.

The word "chosen" doesn't make complete sense there, but that's what it looks like. 

4/30 Played my first tennis for 1/2 hour with Louise & Mary Keller while Sylvia attended "school" where she played "squirrel in the tree". Eugene asked to see "Cinderella". Gromyko asked for full discussion on the Palestine issue. U.S. & Britain were opposed.

5/1 My birthday and I got pyjamas from Lillian and sets of shorts shirt and socks from the kids. Mama gave me $5 and Lilly brought some candy meanwhile, she said. We all went down to the parade Susan also "powning" and applauding with the others. Eugene drew a picture in class which Mrs. Dwyer hung outside the room. Sam came over to return our bonds. President Aleman of Mexico first of that country to visit here received a tremendous welcome in Washington. The Jewish Agency has been barred from the Palestine hearings at the General Assembly. Telephone workers rejected a settlement by their leaders based on a $4. raise. They are still striking for $6. with renewed spirit. Henry Monsky is dead at 57.

Don't know what "powning" was supposed to be. 

5/2 80000 marched yesterday with 5000 C.P. vets in uniform. Sylvia and Eugene tired after an hour or so. We left for home at 5:45 Mama staying till the end then going to the Manhattan Center meeting of the opposition. Lillian has a slight sore throat. Discussion on independence of Palestine was barred at Flushing 24-15 10 abstaining. The "House" voted to continue a weak rent control 204-182. Konrad Bercovici dropped his suit against Charlie Chaplin in which he had claimed to be the inspirer of the "Great Dictator". Chaplin paid him $95,000 for two new scripts one on the Haymarket massacre and one on a gypsy theme. Meany, Green, Lewis, Tobin and Hutchinson [sic] of the A.F.L. met Reuther, Rieve, Potofsky, Fitzgerald and Murray of the C.I.O. in a unity session of 4 1/2 hours. 

5/3 We had to punish Eugene about his selfishness. He rarely agrees graciously to do any of the little things Lillian asks of him. Sylvia told me she was a lady killer for a hundred years when we were swapping "Kreuziger" [?] words with each other. Her favorites now are gam, gim, etc. Eugene uses frequently "what in the world" and "in an instant". Lillian has a nose cold. Delegate Austin of the U.S. led the vote for Jews to be barred from an "Assembly" voice but to be heard in the "Political Comm." A.F.L. leaders Wedl, Schindler, O'Donnell were suspended for "May Day" participation. The French gov't is endangered as the C.P. is supporting Renault strikers as against the wage freezing policy. We both read B. Cerf's "Try and Stop Me" reputed to [be] plagiarized from columnists.

4/24-4/26/47

4/24 Sylvia returned to playground school today. Eugene was the only one on his pond comm. to bring in any info - from his Book of Kn. Wallace in Paris urged a 15 billion dollar loan to Russia. Warden Lawes is dead at 63.

4/25 Lillian saw Mrs. Dwyer who thought very highly of Eugene and was surprised to hear of his lapses. She told Lillian to assure Eugene he could go to the bathroom any time. Lillian took Sylvia to school to register her for the fall term. The Big 4 conference ended in a stalemate in Moscow. Six Nazis were hanged in Prague for the Lidice crime. 600,000 workers put on a stoppage in Detroit and 100,000 listened to Auto union leaders denounce the anti-union drive. 23000 signed T.W.U. cards to be represented by that union in transportation bargaining. Albany banned Robeson. The House Banking Comm. rejected a 10% rent increase 14-10. Willa Cather is dead at 70.

4/26 The kids played in the yard this morning drowning ants and shooting each other. Bobby R. and Gloria and Vivian S. participated. G.M. & Bethlehem Steel signed for 15¢.

These are the first entries in Book III; only three days, since Book II ended mid-week.

Deaths (Book II)

3/19/46 H. Glintenkamp
              H. H. Richardson
              Jung
              Largo Caballero
3/26 Vincent Youmans
3/27 Alekhine - killed
3/31 Leon Kobrin 
4/3 Noah Beery
4/23 Mae Busch & Lionel Atwill
Interesting to me that he spelled "Mae" correctly this time (wrote "May" on the original entry). But see my note at the end of this section.
5/4 Little Bill Johnston
5/6 Dr. Simon Flexner
5/8 J J Johnston
5/18 Eberhard Faber
5/20 Booth Tarkington
5/24 Henry George Weiss
He didn't write the deaths too clearly, so I've been going back to the date of the diary entry to check the names; found that this one was entered by me as "Henry Bruga Weiss"; now corrected. And, BTW, it seems that the name was really George Henry Weiss. 
5/26 Patterson of the "News"
   29 Carter Glass
He started writing only the new month, from here on.
6/4 Kalinin
   7 Gerhard Hauptmann
   10 Sen. Bankhead
   11 Jack Johnson
   15 Major Bowes; Chas. Butterworth
   26 Wm Hart
   30 Wanda Gag, Antoinette Perry
Just found out that he's NOT going through the diary for deaths; these two are not mentioned in that day's (or any other day's) diary entry (except that I did take out a book from the library by Wanda Gag).
7/5 Steiglitz [sic]
This one made me check the name; he misspelled it both times, understandable, considering our last name!
   11 Sidney Hillman
   20 Bogolometz
   28 Gertrude Stein
8/9 Tony Lazzeri
8/14 H G Wells
   17 D. Bellanca
   20 Fielding Yost
9/2 Moriz Rosenthal
   20 Stewart Edward White
   22 Raimu
   25 Jeff Tesreau
10/5 Barney Oldfield - Gifford Pinchot
     12 Gen. Stillwell
     23 Ernest Thompson Seton
11/9 Gabriel Wells
     15 May Sinclair, DE [sic] Falla 
     19 Jimmy Walker
     26 Henry Morgenthau
12/7 Sam Shore
     9 Laurette Taylor
     11 Damon Runyon, Walter Johnson
     16 Lewis Valentine
     21 Gene Talmadge
     30 Carrie Jacobs Bond
1/2/47 Charles W. Cadman
   5 Ogden Reid
   12 Eva Tanguay
   21 Charles Krumbein
   22 Josh Gibson
   23 Andrew Volstead
   26 Grace Moore
   27 Al Capone
   30 Jim Larkin
Another example of a death not in a diary entry.
2/1 Johnny Kling
   5 Adm. Mitscher
   6 Ellen Wilkinson, Hans Fallada
   14 Sidney Toler
   23 Harry K. Thaw
3/10 Carrie Chapman Catt
   18 Jean Richard Bloch
   28 John Evers
4/8 Henry Ford
   19 Benny Leonard
This was difficult to complete correctly, since the last page apparently fell out, and he pasted it in, covering part of the back cover, on which he had written the last 22 names. So some dates were not visible; I took them from the diary entry. 
In addition to the few names which I noted were not in the diary entry, another indication that he was using some other source was that some names were written out differently here than in the diary entry (e.g., Carrie Chapman Catt was Carrie C. Catt in the diary entry; John Evers was Johnny Evers in the diary entry).  

Index [Book II]

2/22/46 Uprisings grow in India and Egypt.
              Finnish trials result in 2-10 year sentences for Ryti, Tanner, et al.
2/27 Columbia Tenn incident resulting in anti-Negro riots.
2/28 Kuomintang and Red Army sign meger, Miss Quinn whitewashed.
         Ford signs $1.40 per hr agreement with Union. P.M.A. leaves A.F.L.
3/2 Vandenberg enunciates the "get tough" policy with Russia.
3/4 Eugene got his first chess lesson.
3/6 Churchill makes his speech calling for an Anti-Soviet crusade.
3/14 G.M. and G.E. strikes settled with 18 1/2¢ per hr. increase.
3/16 Fred Rose arrested on espionage charges.
3/18 LaFollette Progressive Party returns to the Republican Party.
3/20 Mother operated on for hemorrhoid. Shvernik replaces Kalinin.
3/25 First session of the Security Council at "Hunter".
3/26 Peron's election conceded in Argentina.
3/28 Gromyko takes a walk; Reuther defeats Thomas. Soviet Lieut Redin arrested on espionage charges; Black Book of Nazi terror dedicated.
4/1 Van Acker forms Belgian cabinet; Greek elections held despite boycott.
4/3 England gives TransJordan "independence".
4/11 Poland asks action against France at the "Council" meeting.
4/15 Japanese elections result in Conservative victory.
4/20 French Constitution adopted.
4/22 German Socialists and Communists have formed the United Socialist Party in the Soviet Zone.
4/24 Ed Head pitches no-hitter.
4/30 Roxas victory conceded in Philippines.
5/1 Feller hurls no-hitter; Comm. recommends entry of 100,000 Jews in Palestine.
5/6 French Constitution defeated.
5/8 14 yr old sitter Jack Turk acquitted in murder of 3 yr old Sybil Gurfein.
5/14 Eugene has first lovers' quarrel with Gloria Singer.
5/18 Truman seizes railroads.
5/21 Army transport crashes into skyscraper; Truman signs P.O. increase.
5/24 Browder in Moscow; Eugene asks if he could T-I-P (type).
5/26 Truman forces R.R. back to work and proposes strike breaking Bill.
5/28 C.P. leads in Czechoslovakia.
5/30 Coal strikers settle for 18 1/2¢ and improved conditions.
6/4 M.R.P. wins the French elections.
6/6 58 killed 200 injured in worst Chicago hotel fire.
       The monarchy was defeated in Italy 12 to 10 million. Chris. Dems led for Constit. Assem.
6/8 Eugene has chicken pox.
6/13 C.P. application to the British Labor Party beated 2 1/2 to 1/2 million.
         Bevin makes his anti-semitic remarks.
6/15 Seamen win their strike as Baruch presents his atomic plan.
6/19 Gromyko vetoes the weak Franco resolution.
6/20 Bedault is French Pres as Louis Ko's Conn in the 8th and Sylvia has chicken pox.
6/26 Staten Island fire causes several deaths and $2,000,000 damages.
6/30 Truman vetoes the weak OPA bill.
7/1 Bikini Atoll atom bomb test.
7/4 Philippines received independence; Truman signs Hobbs Bill.
7/5 Kielce pogrom in Poland.
7/10 Sylvia takes a dive.
7/15 Mikhailovitch sentenced to be shot; Aleman wins Mexican presidency.
7/19 Buyers strikes are sweeping the country.
7/22 Rep. May subpoenaed in loan scandal; Large scale civil war in China; Bolivian dictator Villarroel hung and govt overthrown.
7/23 British Army headquarters blown up with scores killed in Palestine.
7/24 Weak OPA bill passed. Heirens confesses dismemberment of 3 yr old Susan Degnan.
7/26 Partition of Palestine broached by England.
7/27 Horrible lynching of four Negroes in Georgia.
7/30 Bedault opens 21 power peace conference in Paris.
8/3 Tennessee vets use arms to beat a political machine.
8/5 Record paid crowd of 74,529 see Yankee Indian game.
8/10 British war against "Illegal Jewish Emigrants is being pressed.
8/11 Senator Bilbo admits he is a Klansman.
8/19 Internecine riots between Muslims and Hindus cause 15000 casualties.
[looked back at the diary at this one; there he says "1000 deaths and 4000 injured" so he probably meant to write "5000".]
8/20 Yugoslavia has shot down two US planes after repeated protests.
8/22 The "Pirates" have voted against the union.
8/30 Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden accepted into the UN.
9/1 Truckers strike settled.
9/2 Terroristic Greek plebiscite returns monarchy.
9/3 Nehru leads new interim gov't in India.
9/4 Bottvinik wins Chess Masters tournament.
9/7 G.G. Videla - Chilean leftist wins Presidency.
9/8 Jack Kramer wins Mens Singles beating Tom Brown.
9/9 Eugene starts 1-B.
9/10 Bulgaria votes Republic.
9/11 English squatters take over empty houses.
9/13 Wallace makes his famous "peace" speech.
9/15 Eugene plays on tennis court for first time.
9/20 Truman fires Wallace in double-cross.
9/25 Stalin calls long peace possible.
9/29 Surprise party for Mom and Pop's fortieth anniversary.
9/30 Cards and Dodgers end season in exact tie for first place.
10/2 11 big Nazis to die; Schacht, Von Papen and Fritsch to go free.
10/4 Cards win pennant in a play off with Dodgers.
10/5 23 of 25 Columbia Tenn. Negroes are freed in historic trial.
10/15 Truman ends meat controls.
10/16 Goering takes poison as ten other Nazis are hung; Cards win World Series in upset from Red-Sox.
10/20 Vets "sit down" in state legislature for housing, education, raises.
10/22 S.D. win election in all Berlin zones.
10/26 Ass't Att'y Gen'l Rogge has been discharged for divulging secret report of Americans connected with Nazis.
10/28 Eugene gets his first glasses.
10/29 Stalin calls Churchill leading warmonger, admits Russia lacks atom bomb.
11/6 Dewey re-elected as Republicans sweep country. Million dollar embezzler caught in Florida.
11/9 First bank strike.
11/11 French C.P. wins election.
11/14 Sylvia goes down alone for first time.
11/19 Jimmy Walker dies.
11/22 400,000 miners out on strike; Left wing wins in Romania.
11/23 Dimitrov is Bulgarian Premier.
11/24 Reshevsky wins American chess championship.
11/30 Lewis & miners in contempt of court as gov't fights to break strike.
12/3 We buy the Book of Knowledge.
12/4 Eugene in 2A
12/5 Mine Union fined $3,500,000. Molotov agrees control & inspection of arms not subject to veto.
12/8 Winecoff Hotel fire 122 killed - 100 injured.
12/10 UN votes to recall all ambassadors from Spain.
12/12 Azerbaijan falls to Iran troops.
12/13 Disaster as 2515 Amsterdam Ave. collapses; Leon Blum is first Premier of the 4th Republic; Eugene breaks his first lens. 
12/22 Eugene on skates for first time; Jap. earthquake 1300 killed.
12/24 The Dairen incident; Portal-to-portal pay suits instituted.
12/28 Kramer & Schroeder regain Davis Cup from Australia.
12/30 Progressive Citizens of America born.
1/2/47 Labor Gov't nationalizes mines; Illinois wins Rose Bowl game.
1/5 Americans for Democratic Action born.
1/8 Marshall leaves China and becomes Sec'y of State.
1/14 I go to Dr. Holzman with Eugene and find I have an anal fissure and Eugene virus infection of the chest.
1/16 H. Talmadge "elected" to succeed his father on basis of 675 write-in votes; Gov. Arnall refuses to recognize "coup"; Paraguay C.P. outlawed.
1/21 Gov't bloc wins big victory in Poland.
1/22 Dr. Holzman says Sylvia has thrush.
1/26 Grace Moore killed in plane crash.
1/27 Brazilian C.P. polls million votes.
2/5 Eugene in 2B. Eisler arrested as enemy alien.
2/8 Eugene gets a reader & speller.
2/10 Eugene elected V.P. of his class.
2/11 Sylvia wants to go to Lincoln's Birthday.
2/13 England in rail crisis; 5¢ fare in subway upheld.
2/16 "Columbian" leader gets jail sentence.
2/17 50 killed in worst airplane crash.
2/19 China in crisis, Romania starving.
2/23 Eugene dances with Elaine at Isabel's party.
2/25 Greatest teachers strike in Buffalo.
2/26 Eugene kept in 1/2 hour for lateness.
3/7 Supreme Court upholds information against miners on grounds that since gov't had taken over the mines LaGuardia act doesn't apply.
3/11 Big 4 ministers conference opens in Moscow, Sylvia goes to playground alone.
3/12 Truman inaugurates his reactionary "Truman Doctrine" via Greece & Turkey.
3/20 Yenan falls; Talmadge ousted. French C.P. refuses to support war in IndoChina.
3/23 Eugene beats me in chess; Truman orders purge of reds in Gov't. Lillian gets cold.
3/25 Hearings on outlawing the C.P. begin.
3/26 Called Dr. Marcus for Lillian, who said she had the grippe. 111 miners killed in Centralia blast.
3/31 Eugene gets first report card with A's and B+'s.
4/1 Wallace speaks to 30,000 at the "Garden"; Greek King George dies.
4/6 Eugene gets sick.
4/7 Dr. Holzman says Eugene has a strep throat; Sylvia goes to bed with fever also.
4/8 Eugene quite sick and delirious at night but plays games of chess with me anyhow. His temp down to normal in A.M. Telephone strike starts; Ford dies.
4/9 Dr. Holzman unable to diagnose Sylvia's illness definitely.
4/10 Eugene gets adenitis, a complication resulting from his "strep". Sinatra socks Hearst columnist; Durocher suspended for season. Lilienthal confirmed.
4/11 Jackie Robinson signed by Dodgers. Texas tornado kills 127.
4/15 Both children up and around; Ask for Wallace prosecution.
4/16 Small-pox vaccination for all New Yorkers asked.
4/17 I am in bed all day with bad cough and phlegm; Texas City explosions kill over 500; Dov Gruner and others executed by the British.
4/18 House passes Hartley "slave labor" bill 308-107.
4/19 We are all vaccinated; labor demonstrations begin against anti-labor drive. Benny Leonard dies.
4/23 Greek Turkish Aid Bill passes Senate 67-23.