12/15 Sunday In the afternoon to Arnold P's party. The kids brought him the Pinocchio records. They saw some childrens movies there. Sylvia got some shells to string from their Aunt Lillian and Eugene a crow shooting game. Eugene persists in hitting Sylvia when annoyed. Today we punished him for it. Ward Beecher Caraway who claimed he was under the influence of drugs when he killed Mrs. M. C. Logand [sic] and robbed and shot her daughter will die in the chair. He is a Negro. No work.
Apparently the name was actually "Logan".
12/16 Went to the library with Sylvia. She touched me then herself alternately to choose who should go step way and who slide way. Eugene was upset because Gloria said she didn't want to speak to him. W.F.T.U. got the right to submit questions to the UN. A plot has been uncovered to fix the world championship football game between the Bears and Giants won yesterday by the Bears 24-14. Implicated is a N.J. gambling syndicate and a N.Y. front man Alvin Paris. Lewis Valentine is dead at 64. 2 hours O.T.
I believe that "step way" and "slide way" referred to the hill leading from Kingsbridge Road to the library, which had a lot of steps, or one could go down the grass/rock hill, or a paved incline.
12/17 Sylvia threatened not to lend me her eraser if she couldn't look at the big "alboom" of pictures. Eugene has to blow his nose during the night, also complained his lip and eye hurt him. The UN General Assembly closed its first session held in the U.S. Monday morning at Flushing Meadows. Siam was admitted as the 55th member of the UN. The I.R.O. (Intern'l Refugee Org.) constitution was approved for submission to member states by 30-5, Russia complaining quislings would be allowed to escape under the agreement. At the Bilbo hearings many contractors revealed gifts to Bilbo in return for aid in war contracts. Blum picked an all Socialist interim cabinet. 12000 at the Garden saluted the Spanish Republicans, hearing Toledano, Del Vayo, Oscar Lange, Masaryk, Kasonovitch, Parodi, Potofsky, Barsky, Wolff and Fritchman. It was charged we and England wish to keep Franco as a war base. 3 hours O.T. Senator Bailey dead at 73. Pay check $135.07.
12/18 Sadie and the kids over yesterday. The contrast between Fredi and Arline's behavior is great. Eugene and Sylvia are anxious to see Santa. The U.O.P.W.A. has endorsed the C.I.O.'s resolution against interference by the C.P. or any other party or group. Merrill has gone beyond the C.I.O. in resigning from the New Masses and Jefferson School! Money collected for his church went almost entirely to Bilbo. His former secretary Ed Terry, found in a hospital after threats against his life is testifying now. Paris is in jail without bail after a phoned threat against his life. Football Giants Hapes and Filchock have been named in the scandal. Filchock has been cleared and participated in the Sunday game. Hapes is still under supervision. 4 hrs. O.T.
12/19 Sylvia went down with Betty-Ann L. today although pathetically. Dope and sex have been added to the Bilbo trial. Truman defended our intervention in China. 23 Nazi doctors on trial for war crimes have been guilty of every possible perversion of the medical profession "to further medical science". Steel, Radio and Auto unions have issued a joint wage policy statement. The UAW also supported all-labor unity. Yugoslavia charged Greek violations of its borders at Lake Success. Another front man for the gambling syndicate has been arrested, J. Zarowitz. The syndicate made $25000,000 on football bets. Lillian and the kids went to mothers bringing Susan a xylophone. The furniture is beautiful. 4 hours O.T.
12/20 Sylvia is in bed with a cold. Eugene will bring home a picture highly praised by his teachers. The Security Council voted to send a fact-finding commission into the Balkans to investigate counter charges of Greece and Yugoslavia. A P Sloan presented a program of smashing labor unions. Kingdon and Steel are off the air. Paul Langevin is dead at 74. Sylvia got a doll house with furniture. 4 hrs. O.T. No $20 check.
12/21 Truman urged a universal military training plan playing down the military angle. War has flared up again between France and the Viet Nam republic in Indo-China. French Communists walked out of a gov't meeting discussing the issue. 8 hrs. All O.T. Gene Talmadge is dead.
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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