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George Lewis Pollock 1917 - 2013

George Lewis Pollock of Gold Coast, City of Gold Coast County, QLD Australia was born on July 25, 1917 in Hamilton, Southern Grampians Shire County, VIC to Leslie Graham Pollock and Alice Celica (Millard) Pollock. He had siblings Robert Ernest Pollock, John Douglas Pollock, Leonard Graham Pollock, Shirley Lorraine Pollock, and Ronald Leslie Pollock. George Pollock died at age 95 years old in February 2013 in Gold Coast, City of Gold Coast County, QLD.
George Lewis Pollock
Gold Coast, City of Gold Coast County, QLD Australia
July 25, 1917
Hamilton, Southern Grampians Shire County, VIC, 3300, Australia
February 2013
Gold Coast, City of Gold Coast County, QLD, Australia
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  • 07/25
    1917

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    July 25, 1917
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    Hamilton, Southern Grampians Shire County, VIC 3300, Australia
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    2013

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    February 2013
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    Unknown
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    Gold Coast, City of Gold Coast County, QLD Australia
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    George Lewis Pollock lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1917, in the year that George Lewis Pollock was born, it is believed that a worldwide influenza pandemic began in Asia. By 1920, it is estimated that 50 - 100 million died throughout the world (3 - 5% of the population). In the U.S. alone, 500,000 perished from what came to be called the Spanish Flu or the 1918 flu.
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In 1933, at the age of 16 years old, George 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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