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.