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Leander Hodges 1897 - 1971

Leander Hodges of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas was born on June 8, 1897, and died at age 73 years old in April 1971.
Leander Hodges
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas 75231
June 8, 1897
April 1971
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  • 06/8
    1897

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    June 8, 1897
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  • 04/dd
    1971

    Death

    April 1971
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    Leander Hodges lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1897, in the year that Leander Hodges 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, at the age of 36 years old, Leander 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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