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George W Jr Yonker 1927 - 2009

George W Yonker of Revere, Suffolk County, MA was born on November 8, 1927, and died at age 81 years old on January 1, 2009.
George W Yonker
Revere, Suffolk County, MA 02151
November 8, 1927
January 1, 2009
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  • 11/8
    1927

    Birthday

    November 8, 1927
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Nationality & Locations

    Worcester County, Massachusetts United States
  • Early Life & Education

    1 Year Of College
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 11158182 Enlisted: September 17, 1946 in West Hartford Connecticut Military branch: No Branch Assignment Private Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, And Enlisted Men) Terms of enlistment: Enlistment For The Panama Canal Department
  • Professional Career

    Tinsmiths, Coppersmiths, And Sheet Metal Workers
  • 01/1
    2009

    Death

    January 1, 2009
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
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In 1927, in the year that George W Jr Yonker was born, the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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In 1933, at the age of just 6 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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