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Rebecca Alice Thornton 1938 - 2008

Rebecca Alice Thornton of Frostproof, Polk County, Florida was born on March 21, 1938, and died at age 70 years old on October 13, 2008.
Rebecca Alice Thornton
Frostproof, Polk County, Florida 33843
March 21, 1938
October 13, 2008
Female
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Rebecca Alice Thornton's History: 1938 - 2008

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  • 03/21
    1938

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    March 21, 1938
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  • 10/13
    2008

    Death

    October 13, 2008
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    Rebecca Alice Thornton lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1938, in the year that Rebecca Alice Thornton was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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In 1947, when she was only 9 years old, in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.
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