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Ruth Weiskopf 1915 - 1998

Ruth Weiskopf of Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ was born on November 5, 1915, and died at age 83 years old on December 15, 1998.
Ruth Weiskopf
Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ 85018
November 5, 1915
December 15, 1998
Female
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  • 11/5
    1915

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    November 5, 1915
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  • 12/15
    1998

    Death

    December 15, 1998
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    Ruth Weiskopf lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1915, in the year that Ruth Weiskopf was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1933, Ruth was 18 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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