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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.