Dec 2. Sunday Eugene belongs to the Children's Book Guild at school and also borrows books from the school library. More C.C.N.Y. basketball players are out as the grades of Smith, Bragin and Chenetz were found to have been altered.
Dec 3. Korean "reds" agreed to inspection behind the lines by neutral countries and a freeze on men and arms in a further step to an armistice.
Dec 4. Last night Sam slept here having forgotten his keys while Molly went to spend the night at Lena's. Sylvia is home with a virus in her neck glands. She had been complaining of pain there for a week. Yesterday Lillian taking Eugene to Dr Morson for his last needle (after his scalp gash) took Sylvia along. She had 101 temp but it is down now. Egyptian riots against the British in Suez resulted in many killed and wounded. Terror against Negroes and Jews in Miami continued. Scores of Internal Revenue collectors have been dismissed for corruption.
Dec 5. I bought Lillian a perfume syringe and she got me a wallet. The F.B.I. investigated me in the house and Sam Goode tuned our piano. Russia OK'd A-plant inspections when the UN outlawed the A bomb. More were killed in the Suez. 5000 bus strikers agreed to a no-stirke policy before television cameras.
Dec 5 was Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary. The F.B.I. investigation was presumably due to Dad's Federal employment (by the Post Office).
Dec 6. Casualties continued to mount in Suez riots. Tito freed Archbishop Stepinac but barred him from his post. Chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau C. Oliphant resigned rather than be the target of "vilificationa and rumors".
Dec 7. Eugene got his first failure on his report card - in science. His other marks were good. Lillian saw his teacher Mr Brandon who couldn't account for it. Sylvia got a fine report card including an "outstanding" for composition. Several boys have been "after" Eugene in school so Lillian called them on the phone as he didn't seem opposed to it. The incident doesn't seem to be serious. Lillian took Sylvia to the school bazaar in the evening to 9:15 PM. They bought a dress for Lillian $1.46, a bracelet for Sylvia 5¢, loose leaf re-inforcements, cookies, 4 yards of plastic, pads, cake, 5 comics for 10¢, key chain for Eugene. Sup't of Schools Jansen was given the sole power to oust present or former communists. 3000 leftist students in Iran were mobbed by 5000 troops and 1000 Nationalists. Several were killed, hundreds were injured. The mob then went on to pillage and destroy Communist and Anti-gov't newspaper offices. Joe Jackson is dead at 64, Harold Ross at 59 and J Edward Bromberg at 47.
Dec 8. Non-political, co-discoverer of penicillin Dr Chain was barred from this country. The spotlight of the tax scandal is turning on Supreme Court Justice Clark and Att'y Gen'l McGrath. Ass't Att'y Gen'l Caudle has already been dismissed by Truman and several have resigned. Judge Streit suspended sentences on three Bradley basketball players, Melchiorre, Mann and Chianakis who had "fixed" games, but lashed Bradley U for corrupting its players.
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.
You don't think the investigation had to do with his membership in the ACP?
ReplyDeleteThat was likely the subject, but the reason for an investigation was surely that he was a Federal employee.
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