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Ruth K Crego 1916 - 2004

Ruth K Crego of New York, New York County, NY was born on March 8, 1916, and died at age 88 years old on December 8, 2004.
Ruth K Crego
New York, New York County, NY 10010
March 8, 1916
December 8, 2004
Female
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  • 03/8
    1916

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    March 8, 1916
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  • 12/8
    2004

    Death

    December 8, 2004
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    Ruth K Crego lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1916, in the year that Ruth K Crego was born, the Battle of Verdun was fought from February through December. It was the largest and longest battle of World War I, lasting 303 days. The original estimates were 714,231 casualties - 377,231 French and 337,000 German, an average of 70,000 casualties a month. Current estimates are even larger. The Battle of the Somme was also fought from July through September of the same year. Original estimates were 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German casualties.
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In 1933, at the age of 17 years old, Ruth was alive 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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