11/2 Sunday Lillian already has plenty of tussles with Sylvia on clothes to wear. After Sunday school we went to mothers for dinner. Then chess, I beating pop and Eugene and Eugene losing to pop. At home we had many short circuits until Ernst next door repaired the electric cord on the iron.
11/3 The kids always call us Is and Lil. Sylvia played with little Norma G. again. Split chess games with Eugene; also played card games and ring toss with both kids. Lillian sewed a blanket cover. The Labor Party lost heavily in British municipal elections. The C.P. will not join the Cominform because of the reactionary element here. Obermeier admitted being a C.P. member until 1939. Read AB Guthrie's great story of the mountain men "The Big Sky". We both read "Good Night, Sweet Prince" by Gene Fowler. John Barrymores.
11/4 Election Day. We voted for a bonus, housing, to keep P.R. and for A.L.P. candidates for five positions. After lunch Sylvia went down to Norma G. while I took Eugene to the Windsor. We saw "The Sea Hawk" which I saw about 20 years ago. It starred Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains. Also "The Sea Wolf" about ten years old with E. G. Robinson, John Garfield, A. Knox. Eugene enjoyed the pictures very much. Lillian sewed her new house-coat in the interim. Russia asked the end of the British Mandate by Jan 1. and a UN Commission supervise the formation of two independent states. Sandhogs are on strike for safer conditions. Health Commissioner Weinstein resigned, was replaced by Dr Mustard.
Interesting that Dad was so far off, especially on the first movie; IMDb gives the dates as 1940 and 1941, respectively.
11/5 Swung Sylvia on the playground then she squeezed my hand because I wouldn't let her go on the see-saws. P.R. was beaten about 9-5 due to the vicious red-baiting campaign. The A.L.P. increased its vote proportionately. ALP headquarters and a street meeting were attacked. Georgia prison officials who massacred Negro officials were acquitted in court. New Jersey hall owners have been terrorized into refusing rentals for anti-fascist meetings. John G. Winant committed suicide at 58. Mr. Brick died.
Obviously, the second "officials" was intended to be "inmates". I don't know who "Mr. Brick" was, although I did find a death notice for an Alexander Brick on that date.
11/6 Eugene got his report card for the first third. He got perfect marks - S in all personality traits A in the three R's and spelling. The Independent Progressive Party in Chicago showed great strength. Newark authorities pledged protection for minority meetings. Prestes said Latin-American C.P.'s have no need to join the Cominform. Hungarian oppositionist leader P. Pfeiffer fled the country. Chiang jailed 50 of his leading officials as "red spies". The Gen. Ass. voted a commission to supervise the Korean elections. Slav states did not even vote.
11/7 Eugene got a comic book for his fine report card. Sylvia asked friend Norma if her father helped her mother with the dishes. Molotov said the A-bomb was no secret any longer. The UN Interim Comm. was approved 43-6. The Slav states will boycott. Mayor O'Dwyer announced he will seek a higher fare. Pete Cacchione died of a heart attack at 50.
11/8 We sent Eugene to bed this morning as his cough persisted and he was rather cranky. After lunch Norma came up to play with Sylvia and Joyce with Eugene. He played her a little chess then cards. Soon Vivian and Gloria came up. The bigger Vivian as usual played with the kids showing them some new ideas in pasting. Gloria built with the tinker toy set with Eugene and soon a quarrel arose sending her home as usual. All this with Eugene in bed. --. Did some chess with Eugene. Anna Pauker replaced the resigned Tatarescu as Romanian foreign minister. She is the first woman in modern times to hold such a position. Tatarescu's resignation followed a vote of no confidence. Slovakian Communists won in their battle with the Slovak Democratic Party. Mikolajcyk aides who fled with him have been seized in Czechoslovakia and returned to Poland. June Lockhart was called a sensation in her Broadway debut in "For Love or Money".
"new ideas in pasting"? Sounds interesting!
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.
