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Ruth Ester Obarr 1911 - 2008

Ruth Ester Obarr of Burbank, Los Angeles County, California was born on September 2, 1911, and died at age 96 years old on August 12, 2008.

Ruth Ester Obarr

Burbank, Los Angeles County, California 91504

September 2, 1911

August 12, 2008

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In 1911, in the year that Ruth Ester Obarr was born, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.

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In 1933, Ruth was 22 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.

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