Thursday, August 2, 1934

Didn't do much today. Sure was hot. Gweyn Richards is going to move. Nadine and Ruth Ray came down.

Paul von Hindenburg (October 2, 1847 - August 2, 1934)
Second President of Germany
Second President of the German Reich
Preceded by Friedrich Ebert
Succeeded by Adolf Hitler (Führer and Chancellor)

A Prussian-German field marshal, statesman and politician, von
Hindenburg is commonly remembered as as the man who as German President appointed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor Germany.  Hindenburg personally despised Hitler, condescendingly referring to Hitler as that "Bohemian corporal."

The famed zeppelin Hindenburg that was destroyed by fire in 1937
was named in his honor

Wednesday, August 2, 1933

I went out and swung up under the tree. It rained a little today. Bernice came down and Pauline and her and I went to lunch.

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra was the most successful jazz band
in the Midwest. The band toured all over the country and had a top-selling
recording in 1927 called "South." In 1929 Count Basie of The Blue Devils
joined the band, and then several other members of the Devils followed him
to the orchestra. Count Basie took over the orchestra in 1935 after Moten's
death from a botched tonsillectomy. Under Basie's leadership the band emerged
as one of the greatest of all jazz bands.