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Sophie Purta 1921 - 1987

Sophie Purta of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on February 14, 1921, and died at age 65 years old in January 1987.
Sophie Purta
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60646
February 14, 1921
January 1987
Female
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    1921

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    February 14, 1921
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  • 01/dd
    1987

    Death

    January 1987
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    Sophie Purta lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1921, in the year that Sophie Purta was born, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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In 1933, when she was merely 12 years old, 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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