May 9 Sunday We had Mothers Day here yesterday. I gave Lillian roses while the children got her candy. Today we went to mother's. Lil, Harry and the kids there also. We brought mom nylons, panties, perfume and lilacs. Pop won a chess game from Eugene. The bigger girls wrote stories. Peggy showed off her arithmetic. She cried when she had to leave because I couldn't ask her a few more "zamples".
May 10 There is a move on foot to curtail or end the McCarthy hearings which have earned great criticism here and abroad.
May 11 Several plans are in existence to end or curtail the interminable McCarthy Army hearings.
May 12 A Republican move to end the public hearings on the Mac Army quarrel was beaten 4-3 in a Sub-committee vote.
May 13 Eugene stayed home with a sore throat. He later visited the Armed Forces Exhibition at the Kingsbridge Armory with Larry and another boy but was not crazy about the show. Senator Clyde Hoey is dead at 76.
May 14 Eugene stayed home again. Sylvia left for Wash D.C. this morning with about 13 Intermediate Scouts and three adults.
May 15 Mikhail Botvinnik retained his World's Chess title by drawing with Vasily Smyslov 12-12, in a series of matches. Red China was admitted to the 1956 Olympics causing Nationalist China to withdraw immediately.
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