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.
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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