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Ruth J Pickens 1912 - 1998

Ruth J Pickens of Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN was born on February 29, 1912, and died at age 86 years old on March 1, 1998.
Ruth J Pickens
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN 37416
February 29, 1912
March 1, 1998
Female
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  • 02/29
    1912

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    February 29, 1912
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  • 03/1
    1998

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    March 1, 1998
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    Ruth J Pickens lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1912, in the year that Ruth J Pickens was born, the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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In 1933, when she was 21 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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