5/3 Sylvia sings "1-2-3-4, We don't want another war. 5-6-7-8 We want Wallace in '48". She picked it up at the parade. ... We went out after supper Eugene's first day out since Friday. 75000 marched in the parade. The Anti-Communist parade drew 15,000. VP Candidate Glen Taylor was roughed up and arrested when he tried to use a Jim Crow entrance to a hall in Birmingham.
5/4 We went to the circus today. Eugene got a puppet and cowboy hat. Sylvia got a sombrero and monkey on a stick. We had ice cream, cracker jacks, soda chocolate milk. We brought our lunch with us. Milk, ham and cheese sandwiches, cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. The Supreme Court ruled that neither State nor Federal Courts may enforce restrictive covenants - 6-0, Wallace defied a mob of hoodlums to speak to 5000 at Columbia, Mo. The British poured troops into Palestine.
5/5 Sylvia if she wants something will point to someplace and say "it says here that you should do so and so". Eugene has added "The Lone Ranger" to his radio programs at 7:30. He very often forgets to brush his teeth. The Greek gov't executed 154 patriots. Lillian again has a pain in her neck. Her stomach is also sore.
5/6 Lillian went to Ohrbach's. She bought a topper $14. Also stockings for mother, a blouse and nightgown for herself and a balloon for Sylvia which she greatly enjoyed. Earlier she had gone to assembly for Arbor Day with Sylvia. Eugene had made up a riddle about a flower instead of a tree so he didn't participate. Sylvia started to cry in the yard when with Lillian downtown I went for a walk. After school to the Library, where Eugene drew "The Further Adventures of Nils" by Lagerlof "The Sky is Blue" by W.M. Reed (science) "Fairy Tales From Grandfather's Big Book" by E.L. Calisch (The Talmud). Sylvia chose "Stories About Henry" by J.S. Tippett. Wallace was threatened by Mundt for attacking the Mundt Bill. More Greeks were executed in retaliation for the assassination of Justice Minister Ladas. 3rd Ave. Transit workers got 24¢ per hour raise averting a strike. Judge Goldsborough issued an injunction against the deportation hearings on the grounds that the Administrative Procedure Act requiring prosecuting inspectors to be chosen by rotation had been violated. Marshall admitted Nations implore the US not to precipitate war, in testifying against revision of the UN Charter. Dalton Trumbo #2 was convicted of contempt of the UnAmerican Comm. Sen Taylor was sentenced to 180 days in jail - suspended and $50. fine.
5/7 Sylvia came up crying from Norma's yesterday. Today she wouldn't go down there but played with Norma here. We couldn't pry the reason out of her. Eugene didn't call Lillian this morning until 8 O'clock although the alarm rang at 7:30. Coming home for lunch he forgot his rubbers. 44 more were executed in Greece. Korean rightists made an agreement with the Communists, praising the Soviet occupation and attacking the US. Read Bernard Smith's anthology "The Democratic Spirit". Lillian's cheek and neck were better and then suddenly much worse. She suffered all evening.
5/8 To Mother's for "Mothers Day" as she has a wedding tomorrow. Harry Lil & Susan over also. We gave them stockings handkerchiefs and lilacs. Mama gave me a shirt for my birthday. Eugene and I beat Pop at chess. Furriers ended their strike with concessions. Lillian was still troubled with her ailment and used a heating lamp.
Although Dad didn't say anything about them (even on "tomorrow", the actual Mother's Day), the following cards were taped in the diary here; the tape had dried out, and they actually fell out when I turned the page, so I felt free to scan both inside and outside. First my card, outside and inside, then Silvia's card, outside and inside; hers is much larger.
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