11/21-11/27/48

11/21 Sunday Israel's airmen downed an Iraq bomber. France protested the return of the Ruhr to Germany. A recent O.K. of hotel rent rises of 12% was rescinded after an investigation. Talk of repeal of the Taft Hartley law is prevalent. Max Bedacht was expelled from the C.P. for sectarianism. Molly came home from Hot Springs this morning. She and Sam were over for dinner. Also Milton & Shirley. We had a delicious pot roast and one of Lillian's wonderful chocolate cakes. Beat Milton a chess game.

11/22 Lillian got Eugene a winter jacket with a fur collar $7.88 and a pair of pants $4. at Alexanders. Sylvia was jealous because she didn't get anything. She prints her letters very nicely. Chiang insists he will fight to the end as Mme. Chiang appealed to the U.S. for help. The first election in Spain since '36 saw Franco's candidates saw the Felange party, the only legal one, win.
The A.F.L. demanded a boycott of Russia as long as its "barbarous blockade" continues. The N.Y.C. C.I.O. lost the charter for Communist activities at the C.I.O. convention.

The crossing out and new paragraph seems unusual.

11/23 Sylvia's teacher put her drawing of a Pilgrim man and lady on the blackboard. Eugene is worried about his test on the Congo. The N.Y.C. Rent Advisory Board turned down a request for a blanket 15% rent raise. The U.S. announced seizure of a Czech spy ring in Germany operating since 1946. Murray denounced the "left" at the C.I.O. convention for not following C.I.O. policy and not organizing.

11/24 Eugene drew "Dr. Dolittle's Post Office" by Hugh Lofting "Young Hickory" (Andy Jackson) by Stanley Young, "A Bakers Dozen" by M.G. Davis - selected Fairy Tales and "Missee Lee" by A. Ransome. Sylvia drew "Noodle" by Leaf and Bemelmans "Johnny Cake" by E.L. Brock, "Chin Ling The Chinese Cricket" by A. Stilwell  and "Gramp's Desert Chick" by Rita Kissin. Hogan's suspension was rescinded by Local 100. Truckers are on strike. Read Ann Petry's gripping novel of the sordidness of Harlem life - "The Street". Hack Wilson is dead at 48. We saw at the Oxford "A Love Foreign Affair" with Deitrich [sic], John Lund and Jean Arthur rather lenient with the Germans and "Lulubelle" [sic] with George Montgomery, Lamour and Krueger [sic]. Levi Jackson is first Negro football captain at Yale.

11/25 Thanksgiving Day Took the kids to see Macy's parade with the usual giant balloons. Home to a delicious dinner of roast chicken, stuffing cranberry sauce. Then to Mother's to see Lilly's new apartment. Susan was full of life and fun and Peggy good as gold. Eugene lately loses control of himself and screams and shouts at the slightest difficulty. A military coup in Venezuela ousted Gallegos. Justice Douglas made an important speech calling for labor representation in international affairs to "resist totalitarianism" New units were chartered at the C.I.O. convention to organize in fields where left wingers control unions.

11/26 The kids played downstairs in a gang of gun-toters. France will get a voice in the control of the Ruhr.

11/27 66 of 71 I.L.A. locals voted to accept a 13¢ increase retro-active to Aug 21, better vacations, and a four hour guarantee on call to work. Progressive N.Y. locals have not yet accepted. Sun Fo, appointed Chinese Premier asked for a U.S. military adviser. The A.V.C. barred 13 N.Y. locals in the drive to oust Communists at the third national convention. F.E. was ordered to merge with the U.A.W. by the C.I.O. Exec. Board. The Board also called for abolition of the "UnAmerican Comm. and re-examination of the govt loyalty program. The 81st Congress will dismiss 60 contempt citations incurred by the 80th Congress. Jack Delaney is dead at 48. Lou Boudreau won the A.L. M.V.P. award.