8/29 Sunday Eugene was out. The favorite game of the kids is Lone Ranger and Tonto against the James brothers. The kids at breakfast have bagels with cream cheese and jelly with their cereal. O'Dwyer will fire all city A.L.P. appointees. A new decree allows building and ownership of private homes. Herman Steiner won the U.S. Chess Championship over Kashdan by half a point.
8/30 The kids went to the bungalow for games but Sylvia stayed behind. Charles E. Hughes died at 86. The heat wave ended with five days of over 90° heat.
8/31 Tito tightened his control over Yugoslavia by promoting C.P. leaders to greater power. Wallace was egged and booed in his Southern tour, however drawing large crowds. Renegade Communists did their acts again naming J. Peters the mastermind of Comm. intrigue in America. Witnesses included Tim Holmes, Andy Smith, M. Malkin.The C.I.O. voted 35-12 to support Truman. Smith McKenzie and Palazzi were expelled from the N.M.U. at a N.Y. membership meeting by 1462-523 for "misusing funds and disruption".
9/1 Today we returned to N.Y. by bus. We had a pretty nice summer. Among the kids at the farm were Cheryll, Susan (2), Glenn, Arthur, Michael, Martha, Laura, Bobby, Dicky, Steven, Norman, Ernest, Evelyn, Anita, Ruthie, Sarah, Isabel and our kids. Bigger boys were Bernie & Eddie. Sylvia's boy friend was Bobby at first. Later Steven chose her over Isabel for marriage. At night, Sylvia usually became weepy as she was a little scared of sleeping in the room even with Eugene. The women in the house were Rosie, Bessie, Sarah, Goldie, Dinah, Evelyn, Hannah, Nettie, Florie, Evelyn and Lillian. The Sugel family included Charlotte, Coleman, Herbie plus Grandma and Grandpa Sugel. The Jacobs' proprietors were very nice. It was the unanimous opinion that our kids were the nicest of the children and Lillian the nicest among the women. Robert Schumann returned to the Premiership of France after Marie resigned his post. Zhdanov died at 52.
9/2 Sylvia is a great lover of corn on the cob. Eugene is quite hoarse. Played some ball with the kids in the park. After lunch we went to the Kingsbridge to see the leading award winner "The Best Years of Our Lives" with Fred March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Hoagy Carmichael, Cathy O'Donnell. A German De-Nazification Appeal Court freed Schacht. His pro-Nazi speeches were declared necessary to hold his job. 10,000 teamsters struck for higher wages and a welfare fund. The N.L.R.B. ruled scabs, but not strikers whom they replace, can vote in N.L.R.B. elections. The Progressive Party was ruled off the Illinois ballot. Charles A. Beard dead at 73.
9/3 We met Lilly at Woodlawn Station near the golf links and Lil and the kids saw Peggy for the first time. She was voted adorable. Ten Americans who helped Czechs send arms to Israel were arrested by our State Dept. The A.L.P. filed 100,000 names on a petition to restore the 5¢ fare. Carey and Fitzgerald testified before the House Labor Subcomm. on Communism in the U.E. 30,000 maritime workers struck on the West Coast.
9/4 Beat Benjamin and Grey. We all lost weight after the country stay except Eugene. Sylvia is full of enthusiasm, bubbling over with questions and new knowledge. We went over to Woodlawn today for the irst time this summer having supper there. Eugene played Cy Grey and made a good showing. Benes is dead at 64. Steiner won the U.S. Chess title. Kashdan 2nd.
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.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
8/22-8/28/48
8/22 Sunday Played a little with Sam Farr.
8/23 Russian troops arrested a U.S. official who had stepped into the Soviet zone, in the continued Soviet crackdown on the black market. Missouri ruled the Progressive Party off the ballot without any explanation. Several hundred Georgia Negroes were bought at $35. a head and transported to Michigan for work in a canning company.
8/24 Lost to Lavender. The Dean of Canterbury was barred from a speaking tour here. Russia released three seized Americans. Western envoys met with Stalin. New Sec'y of Labor Tobin attacked the Taft Hartley Bill.
8/25 Left wing N.M.U. leaders defeated in the elections are now up for expulsion by Curran and his gangsters. Greek gov't and guerilla sources continued to give contradictory reports on military results.
8/26 Lil's Birthday Left for Farm. I gave Lil a musical powder box. It hit 100° in the city today. O'Dwyer barred all leftists from City Hall. Mrs. Kasenkina in an interview said she jumped to escape from Russia. Russia in a retaliatory measure for the ousting of Lamakin, closed its N.Y. and S.F. Consulates and asked us to close our Vladivostok office. Alger Hiss confronted Whit Chambers in a 5 hour session. He stuck to his denial of any communistic activity and questioned the latter's sanity. Leftist Dept store Union officials were ousted by Int'l Union leaders but were fighting back. We saw outdoor movies at the farm.
8/27 Both kids have colds due to the heat wave which has even hit the mountains. Lillian took the kids temp. in the afternoon and found Eugene had 101.2 and Sylvia 100. They went to bed. Eugene got argyrol packs and aspirin. At night he had 99.8° and Syl. 99.4°. Mom & Pop called from the Overlook in Loch Sheldrake. Pop's eye in which he had gotten rust while at work was better. A World Cultural Parley was held in Poland with 500 delegates representing all great countries including U.S. and England.
Our grandfather ("Pop", above) was an iron-worker, so rust in the eye would not seem unusual.
8/28 Sylvia was allowed out. Eugene had 100.8° at night. He stayed in all day splitting a pair of chess games with me. Lillian has a bad cold and had a miserable day. The heat wave ended here, tonight.
8/23 Russian troops arrested a U.S. official who had stepped into the Soviet zone, in the continued Soviet crackdown on the black market. Missouri ruled the Progressive Party off the ballot without any explanation. Several hundred Georgia Negroes were bought at $35. a head and transported to Michigan for work in a canning company.
8/24 Lost to Lavender. The Dean of Canterbury was barred from a speaking tour here. Russia released three seized Americans. Western envoys met with Stalin. New Sec'y of Labor Tobin attacked the Taft Hartley Bill.
8/25 Left wing N.M.U. leaders defeated in the elections are now up for expulsion by Curran and his gangsters. Greek gov't and guerilla sources continued to give contradictory reports on military results.
8/26 Lil's Birthday Left for Farm. I gave Lil a musical powder box. It hit 100° in the city today. O'Dwyer barred all leftists from City Hall. Mrs. Kasenkina in an interview said she jumped to escape from Russia. Russia in a retaliatory measure for the ousting of Lamakin, closed its N.Y. and S.F. Consulates and asked us to close our Vladivostok office. Alger Hiss confronted Whit Chambers in a 5 hour session. He stuck to his denial of any communistic activity and questioned the latter's sanity. Leftist Dept store Union officials were ousted by Int'l Union leaders but were fighting back. We saw outdoor movies at the farm.
8/27 Both kids have colds due to the heat wave which has even hit the mountains. Lillian took the kids temp. in the afternoon and found Eugene had 101.2 and Sylvia 100. They went to bed. Eugene got argyrol packs and aspirin. At night he had 99.8° and Syl. 99.4°. Mom & Pop called from the Overlook in Loch Sheldrake. Pop's eye in which he had gotten rust while at work was better. A World Cultural Parley was held in Poland with 500 delegates representing all great countries including U.S. and England.
Our grandfather ("Pop", above) was an iron-worker, so rust in the eye would not seem unusual.
8/28 Sylvia was allowed out. Eugene had 100.8° at night. He stayed in all day splitting a pair of chess games with me. Lillian has a bad cold and had a miserable day. The heat wave ended here, tonight.
8/15-8/21/48
8/15 Sunday Returned to N.Y. tonight.
8/16 Russia expelled a U.S. naval officer Lt. Dreker [?] as a spy. Israel declared a British sponsored Arab force had broken the month old truce by attacking Jerusalem. Kluxers burned a cross at the camp of the Nature Friends of America, named as subversive by Atty. Gen'l Clark. We both read James Hilton's "We Are Not Alone".
8/17 Beat Levy. U.S. won the Olympics almost doubling second place Sweden's score. A number of athletes representing left-wing gov'ts refused to return home. Cuba initiated a frame-up of 21 Communist leaders. Babe Ruth died of cancer of the throat at 53.
8/18 Harry D. White died of a heart attack at 56. He had been harried by the Thomas Comm. after having been named as a member of a "Soviet spy ring". The meat boycott and strike is growing with butchers joining in. Thousands filed past Babe Ruth's body lying in state in the Yankee Stadium.
I remember seeing the picture of the people filing past Ruth's body.
8/19 Tito guards slew former chief of staff General Yovanovitch attempting to flee to Romania. The N.L.R.B. ruled that maritime hiring halls are illegal. Union raiding in the C.I.O. continued with a paper workers union encroaching on the U.O.P.W.A. Greek Royalists have been claiming great victories in the Grammos mts. while the Greeks claimed the enemy sustained thousands of killed and wounded.
8/20 Kravchenko is revealed to be involved in the desertion of Russian teachers Mr. & Mrs. Samarine. The U.S. has requested the ouster of Soviet Consul Lamakin for his part in the case of the third teacher Mrs. Kosenkina who is in critical condition in the hospital after her leap from the Consulate.We both read James Hilton's "We Are Not Alone".
8/21 Three New-Deal lawyers, Pressman, Witt & Abt told off the UnAmerican Comm. calling it illegal and refusing to answer incriminating questions. In the T.W.U. MacMahon at a meeting admitted C.P. membership for 14 years as the left-right fight smoldered.
8/16 Russia expelled a U.S. naval officer Lt. Dreker [?] as a spy. Israel declared a British sponsored Arab force had broken the month old truce by attacking Jerusalem. Kluxers burned a cross at the camp of the Nature Friends of America, named as subversive by Atty. Gen'l Clark. We both read James Hilton's "We Are Not Alone".
8/17 Beat Levy. U.S. won the Olympics almost doubling second place Sweden's score. A number of athletes representing left-wing gov'ts refused to return home. Cuba initiated a frame-up of 21 Communist leaders. Babe Ruth died of cancer of the throat at 53.
8/18 Harry D. White died of a heart attack at 56. He had been harried by the Thomas Comm. after having been named as a member of a "Soviet spy ring". The meat boycott and strike is growing with butchers joining in. Thousands filed past Babe Ruth's body lying in state in the Yankee Stadium.
I remember seeing the picture of the people filing past Ruth's body.
8/19 Tito guards slew former chief of staff General Yovanovitch attempting to flee to Romania. The N.L.R.B. ruled that maritime hiring halls are illegal. Union raiding in the C.I.O. continued with a paper workers union encroaching on the U.O.P.W.A. Greek Royalists have been claiming great victories in the Grammos mts. while the Greeks claimed the enemy sustained thousands of killed and wounded.
8/20 Kravchenko is revealed to be involved in the desertion of Russian teachers Mr. & Mrs. Samarine. The U.S. has requested the ouster of Soviet Consul Lamakin for his part in the case of the third teacher Mrs. Kosenkina who is in critical condition in the hospital after her leap from the Consulate.
8/21 Three New-Deal lawyers, Pressman, Witt & Abt told off the UnAmerican Comm. calling it illegal and refusing to answer incriminating questions. In the T.W.U. MacMahon at a meeting admitted C.P. membership for 14 years as the left-right fight smoldered.
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