Nov 28 Sunday We all drove down to Allen St., then from there to Evelyn's. Mike was working. We had a nice meal. The kids played the piano. After taking Ev & Isabel for a short ride we came home. The big rage now is petitions for and against Senate censure of Joe McCarthy.
Nov 29 Dr Enrico Fermi, architect of the atom bomb and Nobel prize winner, is dead of cancer at 53.
Nov 30 A Madison Square Garden rally to support Joe McCarthy against Senate censure drew 13000 spectators including many of the well known rightists and fascists such as Joe Kamp, G.L.K. Smith, Westbrook Pegler, Ham Fish etc.
Dec 1 Sylvia had a committee of girls here. They had milk and cookies. They discussed the class play "Oh, What a Dilemma".
Dr Wilhelm Furtwaengler is dead at 68.
Dec 2 Joe McCarthy was 'condemned' by the Senate after weeks of discussion for contempt by a Senate Election Comm. and abuse of its members 67-20. Half the Republicans voted for censure.
Dec 3 Senator Knowland is leading the fight for a Naval blockade of Red China for its imprisonment of thirteen Americans. President Eisenhower calls it a warlike act, however.
Dec 4 I got Lillian candy for our anniversary and she got me liquor. Sylvia went to the new indoor ice skating rink at the old Oxford Theater. Eugene went over to Bobby's. Lillian started her home typing yesterday for Advertising Enterprises.
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