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Lillian Selke 1920 - 1998

Lillian Selke of Wyandotte, Wayne County, MI was born on October 8, 1920, and died at age 77 years old in September 1998.
Lillian Selke
Wyandotte, Wayne County, MI 48192
October 8, 1920
September 1998
Female
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Lillian Selke's History: 1920 - 1998

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    1920

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    October 8, 1920
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  • 09/dd
    1998

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    September 1998
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    Lillian Selke lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1920, in the year that Lillian Selke was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1933, at the age of just 13 years old, Lillian 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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