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Martin Raftery 1899 - 1977

Martin Raftery of Upper Lake, Lake County, CA was born on January 20, 1899, and died at age 78 years old in January 1977.
Martin Raftery
Upper Lake, Lake County, CA 95485
January 20, 1899
January 1977
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    January 20, 1899
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    1977

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    January 1977
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In 1899, in the year that Martin Raftery was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1933, at the age of 34 years old, Martin was alive 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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