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Ruby Skelton 1920 - 1984

Ruby Skelton of Decatur, Dekalb County, Georgia was born on May 16, 1920, and died at age 63 years old in January 1984.
Ruby Skelton
Decatur, Dekalb County, Georgia 30034
May 16, 1920
January 1984
Female
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Ruby Skelton's History: 1920 - 1984

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    1920

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    May 16, 1920
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    1984

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    January 1984
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    Ruby Skelton lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 63.
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In 1920, in the year that Ruby Skelton was born, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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In 1933, at the age of just 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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