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Ruby Gresham 1914 - 2005

Ruby Gresham of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on March 12, 1914, and died at age 91 years old on June 25, 2005.
Ruby Gresham
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11225
March 12, 1914
June 25, 2005
Female
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Ruby Gresham's History: 1914 - 2005

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  • 03/12
    1914

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    March 12, 1914
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  • 06/25
    2005

    Death

    June 25, 2005
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    Ruby Gresham lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1914, in the year that Ruby Gresham was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1933, she was 19 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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