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James Gist 1918 - 1984

James Gist of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana was born on October 26, 1918, and died at age 65 years old in August 1984.
James Gist
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana 47711
October 26, 1918
August 1984
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    1918

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    October 26, 1918
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  • 08/dd
    1984

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    August 1984
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    James Gist lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1918, in the year that James Gist was born, on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.
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In 1933, James was only 15 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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