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James Donohue 1927 - 1969

James Donohue was born on December 9, 1927, and died at age 41 years old in February 1969. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember James Donohue.
James Donohue
December 9, 1927
February 1969
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  • 12/9
    1927

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    December 9, 1927
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  • 02/dd
    1969

    Death

    February 1969
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    James Donohue lived 32 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 41.
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In 1927, in the year that James Donohue 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 merely 6 years old, James 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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