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Florence Bascom 1897 - 1988

Florence Bascom of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM was born on August 6, 1897, and died at age 90 years old on March 21, 1988.
Florence Bascom
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM 87112
August 6, 1897
March 21, 1988
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  • 08/6
    1897

    Birthday

    August 6, 1897
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  • 03/21
    1988

    Death

    March 21, 1988
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    Unknown
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    Florence Bascom lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1897, in the year that Florence Bascom was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1933, Florence was 36 years old 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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