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Ruth Courtney 1911 - 1986

Ruth Courtney of Akron, Summit County, Ohio was born on February 19, 1911, and died at age 75 years old in May 1986.
Ruth Courtney
Akron, Summit County, Ohio 44303
February 19, 1911
May 1986
Female
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Ruth Courtney's History: 1911 - 1986

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    1911

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    February 19, 1911
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  • 05/dd
    1986

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    May 1986
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    Ruth Courtney lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1911, in the year that Ruth Courtney was born, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers.
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In 1933, when she was 22 years old, 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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