It’s been pretty quiet round here lately, so what better to stoke up the discussion than another ever-popular Week of the Week? The last Week of the Week was, you might remember, slightly controversial because it discussed such a very well-known week. Well, as promised, this week’s Week of the Week will be a real undiscovered gem: a true prize week, but not as well known as most other weeks are.<\/p>\n
This week’s Week of the Week is 20-26 November 1932<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sunday 20 November 1932<\/strong> – Wilbur A. Sawyer writes to his wife Margaret from Cape Town, saying: “The weather has been fine, cool except for a few hours in the afternoon.” A bracing whirlwind of a week, I’m sure you will all agree – obscure but by no means dull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been pretty quiet round here lately, so what better to stoke up the discussion than another ever-popular Week of the Week? The last Week of the Week was, you might remember, slightly controversial because it discussed such a very well-known week. Well, as promised, this week’s Week of the Week will be a real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,28],"tags":[35,36,37,33,34,51],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris","category-random-thought","category-week-of-the-week","tag-cricket","tag-egypt","tag-fbi","tag-november","tag-week","tag-week-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMonday 21 November 1932<\/strong> – Following an explosion at Cardowan Colliery, Glasgow, on the 16th, the Scotsman<\/em> reports that Shettleston Co-operative Society has donated \u00a350 towards relief work.
\nTuesday 22 November 1932<\/strong> – T.E. Lawrence warns that “celibacy has its dangers!” in correspondence with G.W.M. Dunn.
\nWednesday 23 November 1932<\/strong> – In the Irish D\u00e1il<\/em>, Mr Anthony asks whether Mr Derrig is aware that the appointment of Mr Cornelius McGiff as school attendance officer has caused “a good deal of discussion in Cork City”.
\nThursday 24 November 1932<\/strong> – The FBI\u00a0Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory\u00a0opens in Washington, D.C.
\nFriday 25 November 1932<\/strong> – Melbourne Cricket Club gives Tate his first outing. He bowls out New South Wales, scoring 4-63.
\nSaturday 26 November 1932<\/strong> – There is a small amount of restrained celebration to mark the tenth anniversary of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.<\/p>\n