Saturday, December 23, 2017

3/9-3/15/52

Mar 9 Sunday In the morning we went to the Purim Carnival at the temple. The kids had lots of fun playing the various games of chance. Sylvia was dressed as Queen Esther for the contest. All got prizes. Sam and Molly came over in the evening.  

Mar 10 Frederick Tenuto, Willy Sutton's pal is being hunted for the cold-blooded murder of innocent Arnold Schuster, who spotted Sutton and notified the police.

Mar 11 Rewards amounting to $47,500 are posted for the dastardly murderer of Arnold Schuster. Threats against the family of the Sutton spotter have been made. The entire police force is on the alert. The Supreme Court upheld the deportation of Alien former Communists, the holding without bail of such aliens and the prison sentences of defense lawyers for the 11 Communist leaders. Batista in a revolutionary coup re-assumed power in Cuba. A N.Y. Central R.R. strike entered its third day.

Mar 12 Lil and the kids were over Mom's yesterday for Purim. Lil & Harry also came over. They like their new house. A Federal injunction killed the NY Central strike.

Mar 13 The first presidential primaries in New Hampshire saw Kefauver defeat Truman and Eisenhower win over Taft. Hugh Herbert is dead at 66, Madam Kollantai at 80.  

Mar 14 The N.Y. Court of Appeals voided an order taking a child away from its mother who had married a Negro.

Mar 15 Eugene drew "My 66 Years in Baseball" - Connie Mack, "Bertie Takes Care" and "Some Follow the Sea" by H. Gregor Felsen and "A City For Lincoln" JR Tunis. Sylvia drew "The Latch Key Club" E. Clymer, "Mr Apple's Family" J McDevitt, "Good Luck, Mary Ann" by A.L. Dean and "Penny Goes to Camp" C. Haywood. We both read "Beau James" by Gene Fowler and "Oath of Devotion" Judge Julius Isaacs. The U.A.W. started a purge in Ford Local 600 following charges of Communism against it at the "red" hearings. The Schuster family, the doctor who heard the death shot and Judge Leibowitz have been threatened by a crank following young Schuster's murder. The U.S. called for a world arms census. Russia asked a germ war ban. Another riot in a U.S. prisoner of war camp between left and right wing Koreans resulted in deaths and injuries.

Friday, December 22, 2017

3/2-3/8/52

Mar 2 [Sunday] We visited Hy and Milly Navarich today, staying for the afternoon. Sandy and Sylvia played games. Eugene worked on a jig-saw. A $2,000,000 robbery was reported in a midwestern home. Sam and Molly over in the evening.

Dad missed noting that it was Sunday.

Mar 3 Greece sentenced eight "red" spies to death and four to life imprisonment.

Mar 4 The Supreme Court upheld the Feinberg "Anti-Subversive Law of N.Y. State 6-3. This applies to the state's schools. Federal Judge Dimock granted a 4 week delay in the trial of the 16 "second string" Communist leaders. Howard Chandler Christy is dead at 80.

Mar 5 Three of the Olney H.S. boys among 19 appearing before a Philadelphia Judge for setting fire to synagogues and movie theatres in imitation of the Nazis were sent to state industrial schools. Others were placed on probation. U.M.T. was beaten in the "House" 236-162 in spite of the great pressure for it. James J Moran, still silent was lectured and given 13-28 years in jail for running a shakedown racket in the Fire Dep't.

Mar 6 The Assembly passed the Margarine repeal bill 90-52 opening the way to the sale of colored margarine. The bed we got from Evelyn for Sylvia came today. 

Mar 7 The Army admitted one of our aides urged a sneak attack on Russia.

Mar 8 Eugene went to the Garden with the Boy Scouts to see a basketball triple-header. Afterwards he had supper at Larry Rubenstein's house. The rest of us went to the Lido to see two prize winning movies - "All About Eve" with Betty Davis, Celeste Holm, Robert Sanders                                   and "Sunset Boulevard" with Gloria Swanson, Billy Holden, Eric Von Stroheim. Sylvia didn't enjoy them and nagged to go home. Veterans prevented a Queens rally against the Smith Act which was held in the street with several hundred jeering. Phil Frankfeld, veteran Communist leader under indictment was expelled from the party for "defeatism and sectarianism".

Dad left space where he probably intended to fill on other actors in the move; surely Anne Baxter, who played Eve. 

Monday, December 18, 2017

2/24-3/1/52

Feb 24 Sunday We went over to Mom's to say good-bye to Lil Harry and the kids who are moving into the new house Thursday. The kids put on the adults' clothes again but Eugene did not join in this time. He was watching a hockey game as he is an enthusiast.

Feb 25 11 Nations agreed to cut off export of strategic materials to Russia. The North Atlantic Pact nations agreed on a European army of fifty divisions. Dick Savitt showed tremendous power in blasting Bill Talbert off the court to win the National Indoors 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Nancy Chaffee Kiner won the women's title over Pat Todd 6-1, 6-0. Kiner and Todd won the womens doubles over Pat Ward and Helen Fletcher 6-4, 6-4.

Feb 26 The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, atomic spies. The Detroit "red" quiz opened with a fight over T.V. or not T.V.

Feb 27 Lillian is getting many congratulations for the success of the first "brownie" meeting. Lattimore appeared before the McCarran Committee and blasted the entire McCarthy group. Vietminh troops gained over the French in Indo-China. The Assembly voted to bar "subversive" groups from public buildings.

Feb 28 We heard the sad news today that Helen Davis died suddenly. Lil & Harry moved today to their new home. Two Harvard students who burned a cross in front of a Negro dormitory were placed on probation. Two workers named by F.B.I informer O'Hara as Communists lost their jobs. 

Feb 29 Sylvia divulged that the monitor caught her talking but didn't put her name on the black-board because he was her boy friend. Mayor "Impy" opposed a fare hike but a deal is in the making.

Mar 1 The 19th French premier since the liberation Edgar Faure resigned in the recurrent crisis. The Korean truce talks are snarled now on the Korean insistence that Russia be one of the neutral powers on the supervising commission.

Monday, December 11, 2017

2/17-2/23/52

Feb 17 Sunday The Prudential Insurance 11 week strike was settled with $5 raises and some better working conditions. The F.B.I. in a sensational move arrested 10 Klansmen in the Carolinas for kidnapping and flogging. Same and Molly came over.  

Feb 18 The kids returned to school today.

Feb 19 Willy Sutton, top "wanted" man for five years was captured near his rooming house, five blocks from the Bky'n police headquarters. Lil and the mothers had their organizational meeting of the "Brownies" at the temple.

Feb 20 The State Dep't Loyalty Board cleared John Carter Vincent of disloyalty. Knut Hamsun is dead at 92.

Feb 21 The first meeting of the Brownies was held in the temple with Lil and Pauline Pachman as co-leaders. There were about 15 girls, including Sylvia, Norma G and Dolly P. They sang "Three Blind Mice" with motions and in "rounds", "Hello", "Cleaning Up", The Brownies "Smile Song". They decided on 10¢ dues. 

Feb 22 We attended the American Legion Rodeo in the Kingsbridge Armory with Buster Crabbe and Johnny Mack Brown. Everyone agreed the affair was a fiasco. A new effective drug against T.B. was announced. 

Feb 23 Sylvia drew "Belinda and the Singing Clock" EC Phillips, "Oh Susannah" Ruth & Rich Holberg, "The Tune is in the Tree" and "Betsy-Tacy and Tib" both by Maud Hart Lovelace. Eugene drew "Fielders Choice" - W. McCormick "Silent Scot" CL Skinner, "Toughy" H McCracken, "O'Reilly of Notre Dame" by Frances Wallace. 69 Koreans and 1 American were killed and hundreds injured in a riot in a UN internment camp.