3/30-4/5/47

3/30 Sunday To Susan's birthday party she looking very cute. She spins round and round and says "[??]", Played Eugene and pop a chess game and Eugene as usual lost interest before the finish. Taubie and Mike over with Mrs. Thaw later. We taxiied there and subwayed home. Lillian had 101 temp when we got home. She took an enema argyrol pack empirin comp. and tea and whiskey. Sadie [?] over at night and Irving R. to tell us of the ride upstate in their new Chevvy to look for a summer place.

I can't tell what Susan says - maybe someone else can; it's scanned in below. He wrote "Sadie", but if it's Irving R(osenberg), then he meant "Sarah". 

3/31 Played out a chess game with Eugene out of a paper during lunch hour. Sylvia regaled Molly who came over with stories and poems. Lewis decreed an 8 day shutdown of the mines in memory of the dead miners. A.D.A. supports the Truman Doctrine - to fight Communism abroad. P.C.A. opposes it. Sylvia has a slight cold. Lillian felt much better this evening. Eugene brought home his first report card. A in reading and composition B+ in arithmetic and spelling A in conduct Satisfactory in all other items. His and Joan's were the two best. New elections were held in his class old officers being ineligible.

Don't know who Joan was. 

4/1 Eugene guessed the lunch time story I would read from the Book of K. would be "Little one-eye, etc." I have already read "The Straw-ox", "Ali Baba".  Wallace denounced the Truman Doctrine at a P.C.A. meeting before 30,000 at the "Garden". He called for a return to the UN and democratic rights at home. King George of Greece has died suddenly.

 4/2 Lillian put Sylvia in her bed with her shoes off when her temp. was found to be 100°. Eugene seems to have resumed with Gloria. Chinese Nationalists have slaughtered thousands of Formosans. The House Banking Comm. voted for a 10% rent rise. The 5-man N.M.U. trial board cleared Joe Stack. A membership meeting ended in confusion with Curran claiming a vote there had gone against Stack. Curran has intensified his red-baiting and is supporting the Truman Doctrine "against Russian expansion". Lillian read O'Brien's "Best Short Stories 1940".

4/3 Sylvia out of bed today. Eugene a leader of group 3 in class. They need a good leader he says. Left wing Laborites are opposing Bevin's anti-Soviet policy. Lillian read "Sister Carrie".

4/4 Took the kids to the park this Good Friday morning picking up Bobby R. on the way. The kids skated and romped about. Eugene says he knows the "murmel" (moral) of Cinderella "Don't be too greedy or else it will end up bad for you". Eugene takes the attendance in class and records the temperature. The Greek-Turkish intervention received an O.K. from the Senate Comm. Sec'y of Interior Krug shut 518 unsafe mines (see 4/5),

4/5 250,000 Ruhr miners are striking against hunger rations. State Mine Director Medill has resigned under fire in Illinois. It is disclosed mine owners had contributed to the G.O.P. to hush mine violations. Progressives again swept the 65000 man Ford Union local. Wallace reviled here by many liberals for his progressive views has been invited to France as the leading American liberal by all parties and is in great demand all over Europe. The Italian C.P. is supporting the principle of recognition of Catholicism as a state religion in order to retain a broad working class unity. Current joke is of Langley Collyer who with his recently deceased brother Homer formed a pair of wealthy eccentric hermits on 5th Ave. Langley is being sought in their home where 150 tons of junk have already been removed. Went with Eugene to Arnold P.'s house to give him a chess lesson but he had gone to the movies. Spent a half hour there, Eugene having milk & cookies and reading a "Buddy" book there which he borrowed. Played Eugene some chess. (Lillian and the kids went to Mollie's yesterday for a seder. I had to work. Mike Ev & Isabel there. Also Milton and his new girl friend.)

Not sure why the parentheses at the end; I guess because it was "yesterday". This entry is followed by 1 1/2 pages of obliterated stuff, this time in what looks like blue crayon. I will try and read it, but this is going to be much harder.