Feb 12 Sunday We went to Mom's for dinner, bringin a tie and a valentine flower pot. Lil and the kids came but Harry was motoring in Jersey. Peggy was adorable. She talks much better now. Calls herself 'baby'. Susan is "Sushan". Mom is "mamawr" ... The kids played 'hide and seek' while Peggy exulted. We saw a Hopalong Cassidy Western.
Feb 13 We went to the "Grand" to see "Jolson Sings Again" with Larry Parks and Barbara Hale. Also "Blondie's Big Deal". The kids went to the piano a good deal during the day after their lesson this morning. Mrs. Nadler played a little then Lillian played. The teacher praised her note reading but urged her to practice her scales.
Feb 14 Sylvia got a large star for "good English" in school. The U.S. stated we would further discuss atomic problems with Russia if sincere proposals came. The N.M.U. hiring halls were banned when the Supreme Court refused to review a lower court finding that such 'halls' were in violation of the Taft Hartley Act. Sabatini is dead at 75. Dempsey's K.O. of Firpo was called the greatest sport thrill of the last 50 years.
The Dempsey-Firpo note is apparently a repeat.
Feb 15 Sylvia's slowness in getting dressed in the morning is driving Lil crzay. The kids are taking their lunch along these sleety days. Churchill promised a Big Three meeting to end the 'cold war' if the Conservatives win the election. Red China and Russia signed a 30 year pact of friendship alliance and mutual aid. It calls for Russian concessions in Manchuria and Port Arthur after a peace treaty with Japan is signed. The NAACP refused to join the 'Legions' Anti-Communist Front.
Feb 16 Lillian had another scene about dressing this morning with Sylvia. She threatened not to let her go to school again but Sylvia just about made it. The Mine Mill & Smelter Workers, United Office & Professional Workers and Food, Tobacco & Agricultar [sic] Workers Unions were expelled from the C.I.O. for "following the Party line". Babe Didrikson Zaharias was chosen greatest woman athlete of the last fifty years.
Feb 17 The House Rules Comm. again failed to bring out the F.E.P.C. bill by a 6-6 tie vote. Truman said it's up to Russia to make a move for peace. The C.I.O. expelled the left wing United Public Workers.
Feb 18 We went to the Lido to see "The Roosevelt Story" with pictures and narration of the historic years of Roosevelt's presidency. Also "Fame is the Spur" with Michael Redgrave. The militant young firebrand who becomes a conservative M.P. A Briton and two Hungarians admitted spying for the West in the Vogeler trial in Hungary. Vogeler will testify to-morrow. An L.I. train wreck killed at least 30 and injured scores. Two trains crashed head on. Lewis ordered his miners to end their strike but the men are determined to stay out for a contract, increase in the welfare fund and dollar a day wage increase. Judy Coplon fired her lawyer Archibald Palmer and got three new lawyers - Sam Neuberger, Leonard Boudin and Sidney Berman. French strikes against arms unloading appear to have failed.
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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