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Edward Robb Ellis

On my way back to Missouri I stopped in St Louis and I saw my first bread line – 200 starving men forming a gray line as they waited for food. The sight of them disturbed me.

Edward Robb Ellis

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

Edward Robb Ellis

Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!

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New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has flown from England to Germany to confer with Hitler. He has been called the Mad Dog of Europe, and now I understand why: His demands are extreme and his oratory so menacing that chills one’s blood…. I, for one, am a coward and an isolationist. Not only do I not want to go to war, but I don’t consider it necessary for the United States to enter the war that seems about to begin.

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Born: February 22, 1911
Died: September 7, 1998
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Edward Robb Ellis was an American diarist and journalist. During his career he worked in various cities including New Orleans, Chicago and New York City. Ellis began his diary in 1927 as a teenager and wrote almost every day for more than 70 years, filling a volume for each year.

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