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The
ladies of the UCM got up to their old tricks
again mid February, and threw a surprise birthday
party for member Jean Saunders who was 80 years
young that month.
The lovely spread
was laid on in St Joseph’s Room.
Their own Ann Saunders took these photographs
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And the year Jean
was born...........
The miner's strike in Great Britain
is expanded into a general strike, supported by the
General Council of the Trade Union Congress.
U.S. marines are dispatched to Nicaragua to preserve
order after a revolt against the new president Emiliano
Chamorro and remain until 1933.
Chiang Kai-Shek launches the Northern Expedition, leading
the victorious Nationalist army into Hanker, Shanghai,
and Nanjing. Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly from
Spits
Father Charles E. Coughlin, "The Radio Priest",
makes his first radio broadcast on radio station WJR. On
Sundays all through the 1930s people tune into the nation
to hear his controversial broadcasts. His response to
charges of anti-Semitism, is that he "also ...
assails prominent Gentiles, both Catholic and Protestant.
Chemist Dr. Joseph C. Patrick, Missouri, discovers the
world's first synthetic rubber. He names it Thiokol, a
combination of the Greek words for sulphur (the ion) and
glue (kola). |
Jean
is 80 Years Young |
