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.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
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.
5/19 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.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
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.
5/12 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.
Friday, May 25, 2012
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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.
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.
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