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Ruth E Dykes 1919 - 1988

Ruth E Dykes of Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, WV was born on February 3, 1919, and died at age 69 years old on February 19, 1988.
Ruth E Dykes
Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, WV 25443
February 3, 1919
February 19, 1988
Female
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  • 02/3
    1919

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    February 3, 1919
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  • 02/19
    1988

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    February 19, 1988
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    Ruth E Dykes lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1919, in the year that Ruth E Dykes was born, on January 6th, President Theodore Roosevelt died. Having gone to bed the previous night after being treated for breathing problems, the ex-President died in his sleep from a clot that had traveled to his lungs. He was 60. After a simple service, Roosevelt was buried on a hillside overlooking Oyster Bay.
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In 1933, Ruth was merely 14 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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