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Ruth Ashcraft 1933 - 1986

Ruth Ashcraft was born on June 18, 1933, and died at age 52 years old in May 1986. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruth Ashcraft.
Ruth Ashcraft
June 18, 1933
May 1986
Female
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  • 06/18
    1933

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    June 18, 1933
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  • 05/dd
    1986

    Death

    May 1986
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    Ruth Ashcraft lived 20 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 52.
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In 1933, in the year that Ruth Ashcraft was born, 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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In 1945, Ruth was just 12 years old when on August 15th, Imperial Japan announced its surrender. On September 2nd, a formal agreement of surrender was signed. Japan and nine other states signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in Tokyo Bay, calling for the return of all Allied prisoners of war and subordinating the authority of the emperor and the Japanese government to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. VJ (Victory in Japan) Day was celebrated in the United States on August 14th and 15th. World War II was over.
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