Index (Book III)

1947
4/25 Hundreds of Thousands protest Anti-labor drive
4/27 We explode bomb and eat out
4/29 I stay home due to my vaccinations; Palestine issue discussions start in G.A.
5/1 Mexican President Aleman gets great reception here
5/2 A.F.L. & C.I.O. meet in unity session
5/4 Eugene wins two chess games from Pop
5/5 C.P. ministers ousted from French Cabinet
5/6 Supreme Court upholds search without warrant; Chinese Communists win big victory; Basques strike
5/7 Eugene gets new lenses; we get a singer rebuilt portable
5/8 Brazil outlaws the C.P.
5/10 "House" approves the Greek Aid bill 287-107
5/13 Mass lynch trial starts in S.C.
5/14 Taft slave labor bill passed by Senate 68-24
5/22 28 lynchers acquitted in S. Car.
5/27 The Soviet Union abolishes capital punishment
5/31 Over 100 killed in 'round the world plane crashes. Purge of Anti-Democrats begins in Hungary.
6/11 Greatest labor demonstration ever in N.Y. held by 100,000 C.I.O. men
6/13 We buy bed for Eugene as 23 Agrarian Deputies are expelled in Bulgaria
6/17 Marshall initiates plan to reconstruct European economies as 10,000 hear Wallace in Wash D.C. Truman vetoes Tax Bill, Nat'l Seamen strike
6/21 Truman vetoes Taft Hartley bill. House overrides it
6/24 Senate over rides Truman veto.
6/25 We see Bronx Park Rose Gardens after Sylvia cuts her hair.
6/28 Many Anti-fascists convicted in court cases.
7/1 Fascist plot uncovered in France
7/3 Russia refuses to go along with the Marshall Plan.
7/5 Kramer is Wimbledon champ
7/9 Hotel rent frozen here; A.L. beats N.L.; Miners win big victory.
7/10 2000 Greek Anti-fascists arrested in Athens.
7/13 Marshall Plan parley opens.
7/14 Georgia prison massacre.
7/16 We decide to double Germany's industrial capacity
7/21 Dutch reopen warfare against Indonesia
7/30 3 Irgunists executed followed by Irgun retaliation then pogroms in Palestine & England; Russia vetoes Balkan Comm.
8/4 Indonesian war halted by UN request.
8/11 Odom sets round the world solo flight record 73 hrs-5mi-11sec
8/16 Free, partitioned India takes control
8/18 Gov't loyalty purge begins
8/19 Greek guerrillas set up free gov't
8/24 Sylvia develops red throat
8/25 Revolt in Ecuador. Greek gov't dissolves; Legion Commander Griffith calls for Amer. troops in Greece
8/30 Internecine slaughter in India; We agree to let Germany produce 11 million tons of steel.
9/1 We win Davis Cup over Australia
9/2 Hungarian C.P. leads gov't coalition to victory in elections.
9/5 19 American nations sign mutual defense pact as P.R. is again attacked.
9/8 Exodus Jews clubbed off the vessel
9/10 High prices probes start
9/20 LaGuardia dies at 64.
9/24 "Freedom Train" exhibited; Bulgarian Petkov hanged.
9/28 Eugene picks up chess game in 42 st parlor
10/5 Eugene starts Sunday School
10/6 Communists of nine European countries start Information Bureau
10/7 Yanks win World Series; Truman asks big food conservation program
10/11 Chile & Yugoslavia break relations as Arab army masses at Palestine
10/16 Cuban Fed of Labor outlawed
10/17 Eugene gets first filling
10/20 DeGaulle wins big election victory
10/21 Hollywood red probe opens
10/22 Brazil & Chile break with Russia
10/25 Forest fires sweeping Maine
10/29 Board of Ed refuses to ban left wing meetings
10/30 President's Civil Rights Comm.asks end of discrimination.
11/5 P.R. beaten in New York amid red-baiting
11/11 Dr. Holzman diagnoses virus infection of chest for Eugene
11/13 DeGaulle asks new Axis as Communists battle enemies in France & Italy
11/18 Friendship Train makes nationwide collection of food for abroad
11/23 Eugene has all-day belly-ache as Schuman forms French gov't.
11/24 Schuman forms French gov't as Chinese vote in first gen'l election
11/26 "Big 4" Ministers met as movie moguls decided to fire anti-fascists
11/30 Palestine partitioned by the U.N. 33-13
12/3 Battles rage in Greece, China, Palestine, France
12/5 Justice Dept. issues list of "subversive" Anti-fascist groups on our anniversary
12/6 Louis wins unpopular decision over Walcott
12/10 College ban on anti-fascists starts
12/13 Lewis Coal Miners leave A.F.L.
12/15 Russia revalues its currency
12/17 P.C.A. asks Wallace to run on a third ticket
12/25 Free Greek gov't announced
12/27 N.Y.'s greatest snowstorm falls
12/30 Wallace announced his candidacy

1948
1/3/48 We have "shower" for Shirley
1/8 A.C.W. quits A.L.P. on "Third Party" issue
1/14 Find I have low blood pressure at Dr. Holzman's
1/23 C.I.O. votes against a 3rd Party 33-11
1/25 Get drunk at Milton's wedding
1/30 Gandhi assasinated
2/3 Eugene gets well nigh perfect report card, as Truman promulgates his civil rights program
2/8 Pop's banquet at the Crestmore.
2/12 C.I.O. indicted for political activity as Soviet composers criticized.
2/13 Greek guerrillas run gauntlet
2/18 Leo Isaacson wins sensational election
2/19 Started dentistry work
2/26 Czech gov't reorganized with Communist domination
2/28 Lillian gets cold with her neck, eye, nose affected
3/2 Political prisoners start successful hunger strike
3/7 Molly and Sam's 25th Anniversary party
3/11 Masaryk's suicide.
3/15 Western bloc of E.R.P. nations formed.
3/18 Truman asks U.M.T. and the draft
3/20 U.S. reverses self on the Palestine partition
3/21 Talbert wins Nat'l Indoors
3/28 Quill resigns from City C.I.O.
4/7 Sylvia has an infected ear
4/10 A revolt caused great damage in Columbia; Lillian's facial neuralgia starts
4/13 Miners win $100 monthly pensions
4/21 O'Dwyer raised the subway fare to 10¢ as the Popular [remainder of this entry, and perhaps one more, is mostly torn off and cannot be read]
5/1 Eugene contracts inflammation of a gland in the neck
5/4 We go to the circus
5/5 154 Greek patriots were executed in Greece
5/10 Botvinnik wins World's chess Championship
5/15 Israel established
5/18 Stalin hails Wallace's plan for peace discussions
5/20 The "House" passes the Mundt Bill
5/22 Sylvia has inflamed ear
5/26 G.M. workers signed a contract containing an Escalation clause to go up and down with the cost of living.
5/27 Sylvia sees a headless boy and we hear Eugene sing at Assembly
6/3 Thousands demonstrate against the Mundt Bill
6/5 Dr. Holzman says Eugene has a cold on top of his allergy
6/11 Senate passes the draft
6/13 Eugene stays at Evelyn's
6/20 We make our first visit to Coney Island
6/22 Sylvia gets German Measles
6/26 Joe Louis knocks out Joe Walcott in 11.
6/29 Cominform denounces "Tito"
7/1 10¢ fare starts
7/3 Sylvia's 'measles' start
7/4 Bob Falkenburg wins Wimbledon
7/8 Congressional inquisition against left wing dep[cut off] leaders starts. Sokols demonstrate for Benes in Czech. Satchell Paige signed by Cleveland.
7/9 Truce ends in Palestine
7/10 Sylvia has complication (congested lungs) and [cut off]
7/11 Sylvia guesses 'nut' riddle
7/13 Sylvia gets another complication - inflamed ear
7/14 A.L. All stars win 5-2
7/15 Togliatti was wounded by an assassin; Truman was nominated on the first ballot
7/16 A new truce will take place in Palestine
7/19 Left wingers lost in the N.M.U. election
7/20 We leave for the Feiner Farm in Ferndale; Peggy Thaw born at 6 P.M.
7/21 Twelve C.P. leaders indicted for conspiring to overthrow the Gov't
7/23 The Progressive Party opened its convention at Shibe Park
7/24 Pat Seerey hit four hime runs for the White Sox
7/25 Eugene has emotional upset
7/26 Eugene and I get lost in the woods