10/12 Sunday Beat Levine. Evelyn and Isabel over for lunch. Then we spent the afternoon at Woodlawn where Sam joined us. Home where we all had supper. Sylvia got a Mama doll and Eugene a spinning toy and horn. Isabel eats better but is still fresh. She is very cute and full of life. She couldn't be torn away from play at night and almost had to be dragged out crying. Did some chess exercises with Eugene from Lasker's "Chess for Fun". We endorsed the partition plan for Palestine at Lake Success. Read The Merchant of Venice. Lillian read Glenway Westcott's [sic] "Apartment in Athens".
10/13 Split with Ed Wolfe. Eugene has made a giant merry-go-round of his tinker toy set. Pepper has asked that we contribute $50,000,000,000 for a 5 year world reconstruction and peace program. The Trusteeship Comm. voted to have colonial powers submit information on their colonies to the U.N. Childs workers won the 40 hour week.
10/14 Sylvia went on the swings with her new 'Mama' doll. Eugene is now learning multiplication and division. Russia endorsed the Palestine partition plan. The C.P.-S.P. bloc in Rome led the Christian Dem. by a slight margin in municipal elections. Arabs bombed the US Consulate in Palestine.
10/15 Sylvia has one doll in her swing, one in her doll walker, one in her carriage and two in her high-chair. In the playground today she took her doll with her on the small and large swings, sliding pond, seesaw and bars. Did some chess with Eugene tonight. Former Sec'y of State Byrnes urged ousting of the Red Army from Germany and build more atom bombs. The UN has done nothing about the Dutch refusal to cease fire in Indonesia. 69 on a flying boat downed in the Atlantic were rescued after a sensational battle with life rafts and boats by a Coast Guard Cutter. Walter Winchell warned that Russia will create 50 Pearl Harbors on us soon. He charged she is preparing for bacteriological warfare, having started the cholera plague in Egypt. Sidney Webb is dead at 88.
10/16 Beat Levy. Eugene was messenger for Ass't. Principal Mrs. Chaffee. Sylvia prints her name now and is very proud of the 'S' she makes. The C.I.O. passed a resolution supporting post-war rehabilitation but barring political coercion in sending help. Thousands were trapped in subway trains in an I.R.T. tunnel for an hour with a score injured. Sit-in strikers at Industrial Container were served with subpoenas. The Cuban Federation of Labor was outlawed precipitating a general strike. Leon Josephson received a 1 year sentence and $1000. fine for contempt of the Rankin Comm.
10/17 Eugene went to the dentist for school - Dr. Klein 2021 Grand Concourse. We used the P.O. Medical Plan. Eugene has a fine set of teeth but had a small cavity. Charge $3. Sylvia's teeth were O.K. Dr. Klein was vehement and decisive against the use of any candy whatsoever for the children. Truman called rationing, price control and rent control police state methods. The C.I.O. endorsed the fight to save Santo. J L Lewis shunned re-election to the AFL Exec. Council over the non-communist affidavits.
10/18 Eugene saw some movies in the Monka's house last night. Sylvia enjoyed the "pischetti" for lunch today. Eugene used to call it that also. The N.A.A.C.P. presented a petition to the UN. for redress against persecution and discrimination against the Negro in the U.S. Jamaica race-track is on strike. Curran closing the N.M.U. convention claimed the C.P. is on the way out in the Union. Murray closing the C.I.O. convention criticized the administration for its inadequate leadership.
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.
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