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Bert Thorpe 1902 - 1980

Bert Thorpe of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on December 5, 1902, and died at age 77 years old in July 1980.
Bert Thorpe
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60623
December 5, 1902
July 1980
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    1902

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    December 5, 1902
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  • 07/dd
    1980

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    July 1980
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    Bert Thorpe lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1902, in the year that Bert Thorpe was born, about 150 thousand United Mine Workers went on strike in eastern Pennsylvania for a wage increase and more suitable hours. They eventually got a 10% raise and their workday was reduced from 10 hours to 9. Because winter was coming and most people at the time heated their homes with coal, President Teddy Roosevelt arbitrated between the owners and the workers - the first time that the Federal government arbitrated in a strike.
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In 1916, when he was merely 14 years old, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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