10/16 Sunday We went to Milt & Shirley's with Sam & Molly. Molly was to leave for Hot Springs in the evening. We spent the day playing with Seth who is very adorable and playful.
10/17 The kids are writing stories again - a bookfull each. Eugene's are Fairy stories. He has already written "The Three Sisters and the Giant" Sylvia's are "Easy Stories" She has written "Sally's Cousin". Victorious prosecutor McGohey in the C.P. trial has been named a Federal Judge. Elizabeth strikers ended their 168 day Singer Machine strike. Meager gains were attributed to the right wing Bridgeport local's capitulation a few weeks ago. 16000 Alcoa workers struck.
10/18 The Greek guerrillas announced the end of the civil war to "avoid more bloodshed and the destruction of Greece". 2000 sanitation workers "took sick" and paraded for a 5 day, 40 hour week. GLK Smith endorsed Dulles, Lehman's opponent for NY Senator, as an Anti-Communist Christian.
10/19 Sylvia didn't want to wear a dress today because she had worn it already (Saturday). Vishinsky charged the U.S. with violating the UN charter in supporting Yugo. instead of Czecho. to the Security Council. Russia's proposal for a world count of atom bombs was rejected by the "Council". Russia in turn rejected a world arms count exclusive of atom bombs. Protests held up a measure to ban "noisy meetings" in Cortlandt. An attempt to remove Ben Davis from the City Council because of his conviction was halted by Connolly's objection.
10/20 Eugene was nominated for President but has a couple of charges against him and cannot run. New Jersey's loyalty oath was declared unconstitutional by the courts. Congress adjourned after voting over a billion in arms aid. Nehru is here on a six day visit. He warned yesterday that the West must move out of Asia.
10/21 Sylvia raved over a beautiful dress worn by a classmate. She herself wore her new blouse today. The girls exchanged compliments. 4000 (revised to 500) Guatemalans were killed in floods there. Cortlandt slipped through an anti-disturbance ordinance when the opposition went home. Yugoslavia was elected to the Security Council against the wishes of Russia which had backed Czechoslovakia. The Chinese Red Army has taken Canton. Lil and the kids got their first "flu" injections at Dr. Holzman's.
10/22 Arline D. came up and kids played. Eugene tried to make them laugh creating quite a racket. Later I took Eugene and Bobby R. to the Oxford to see Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson in "Its A Great Feeling" and "Colorado Territory" with Joel McCrae [sic] and Virginia Mayo. Amtorg was indicted here with five of its officers arrested and held in $15,000 bail. The charge is failure to register as agents of the Soviet gov't. Medina sentenced ten of the C.P. to 5 years in prison. Bob Thompson got 3 years for his war record. All got $10,000 fines. Bail was refused pending appeal. U.E. officers were the last C.I.O. leaders to sign non-Communist affadavits.
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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