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Walter Ritchie 1920 - 1998

Walter Ritchie of Michigan Center, Jackson County, MI was born on May 15, 1920, and died at age 77 years old on January 25, 1998.
Walter Ritchie
Michigan Center, Jackson County, MI 49254
May 15, 1920
January 25, 1998
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  • 05/15
    1920

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    May 15, 1920
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  • 01/25
    1998

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    January 25, 1998
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    Walter Ritchie lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1920, in the year that Walter Ritchie was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1938, when he was 18 years old, 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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