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Philip Woolf Berk

Philip Woolf Berk was born on February 13, 1933 in Cape Town, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality County, WC South Africa. Philip Berk got married to Ruth Gretchen Berk in 1954 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Philip Woolf Berk.
Philip Woolf Berk
February 13, 1933
Cape Town, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality County, WC, South Africa
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In 1933, in the year that Philip Woolf Berk was born, 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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In 1945, on December 5th, Flight 19 was lost in the Bermuda Triangle. All five planes and 14 airmen disappeared, as did 13 crew on a plane that was dispatched to find them. The official Navy reported the disappearance as "cause unknown".
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Ruth Gretchen Berk

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Philip Woolf Berk

1954
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