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Ruby Giles 1920 - 1973

Ruby Giles was born on January 2, 1920, and died at age 53 years old in October 1973. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruby Giles.
Ruby Giles
January 2, 1920
October 1973
Female
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    1920

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    January 2, 1920
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    1973

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    October 1973
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    Ruby Giles lived 19 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 53.
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In 1920, in the year that Ruby Giles was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1933, at the age of only 13 years old, Ruby was alive 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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