Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Lots o' painting


July 16, 1932 - I painted Ray's dresser, my shoe cabinet and some other things today.  Did some ironing and cleaning.  Ray and I went to the dance at Carroll tonite.  Had a good time.  I came home with Lyle Jenkins.
July 17, 1932 - All the family except myself went up to Uncle Hans' today.  Willie Kahler's stopped here and asked the way to Uncle Hans'.  I slept and read all afternoon.  Cloudy all day, rained a little this evening.  Edwin Brogren birthday.
July 18, 1932 - We painted the kitchen floor, varnished the steps, and painted some more odds and ends in the kitchen.  Canned 13 pints of beans, peas and carrots together.  Mildred Moses' birthday.

I think I remember Grandma saying that she liked, or at the very least didn't mind, painting.  Perhaps that is where I get it from.  Of course, she did great work on those complicated paint-by-numbers, so she enjoyed that kind of painting for sure.

The photo is obviously from much later than 1932, but it looks that we have Grandma and Aunt Irene painting screens on a nice day.

Since I am short on further commentary about Grandma's comings and goings, here are some facts from Wikipedia about July 1932; some of these things I know a little about, some absolutely nothing:

  • July 5 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascist prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years).
  • July 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
  • July 12 - Norway annexes northern Greenland.
  • July 17 - Altona Bloody Sunday:  In Altona, Germany, armed communists attack a National Socialist demonstration; 18 are killed and many other political street fights follow.
  • July 20 - The Papen government sends out the Reichswehr under General Gerd von Rundstedt to depose the elected SPD government in Prussia under Otto Braun.  The coup gives Papen control of Prussia, the most powerful land in Germany, and is a major blow to German democracy.
  • July 28 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. Troops disperse the last of the Bonus Army the next day.
  • July 30 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first animated cartoon to be presented in full Technicolor, premieres in Los Angeles. It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O'Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude (starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
  • July 31 - Reichstag election sees the Nazis win 37% of the vote, becoming the largest party in the Reichstag.

  • Seems things are a bit chaotic in Germany.

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