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Afton Hirst Case 1921 - 2008

Afton Hirst Case of La Grande, Union County, Oregon was born on October 31, 1921, and died at age 86 years old on July 27, 2008.
Afton Hirst Case
La Grande, Union County, Oregon 97850
October 31, 1921
July 27, 2008
Female
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  • 10/31
    1921

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    October 31, 1921
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  • 07/27
    2008

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    July 27, 2008
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    Afton Hirst Case lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1921, in the year that Afton Hirst Case was born, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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In 1933, at the age of just 12 years old, Afton was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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