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Ruth Finkelstein 1938 - 1984

Ruth Finkelstein was born on May 5, 1938, and died at age 46 years old in September 1984. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruth Finkelstein.
May 5, 1938
September 1984
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    1938

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    1984

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    September 1984
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    Ruth Finkelstein lived 32 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 46.
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In 1938, in the year that Ruth Finkelstein was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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In 1952, at the age of merely 14 years old, Ruth was alive when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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