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Roy M Thornton 1926 - 2001

Roy M Thornton of Shepherd, San Jacinto County, TX was born on January 8, 1926, and died at age 75 years old on June 26, 2001.
Roy M Thornton
Shepherd, San Jacinto County, TX 77371
January 8, 1926
June 26, 2001
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  • 01/8
    1926

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    January 8, 1926
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  • 06/26
    2001

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    June 26, 2001
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    Roy M Thornton lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1926, in the year that Roy M Thornton was born, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).
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In 1938, when he was merely 12 years old, 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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