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Robert David Sykes 1927 - 2009

Robert David Sykes of Belmar, Monmouth County, NJ was born on March 27, 1927, and died at age 82 years old on July 10, 2009.
Robert David Sykes
Belmar, Monmouth County, NJ 07719
March 27, 1927
July 10, 2009
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  • 03/27
    1927

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    March 27, 1927
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  • 07/10
    2009

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    July 10, 2009
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    Robert David Sykes lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1927, in the year that Robert David Sykes was born, the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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In 1933, Robert was just 6 years old 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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