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Wilbur R Watson 1902 - 1989

Wilbur R Watson of Rutledge, Grainger County, TN was born on February 7, 1902, and died at age 87 years old on August 15, 1989.
Wilbur R Watson
Rutledge, Grainger County, TN 37861
February 7, 1902
August 15, 1989
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    1902

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    February 7, 1902
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  • 08/15
    1989

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    August 15, 1989
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In 1902, in the year that Wilbur R Watson was born, the world famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, made the first gramophone recording by a popular singer. Accompanied by only a piano, his voice recordings became a big seller and did much to popularize the new-fangled gramophone. He had to sing into a metal "horn" that relayed his voice to a metal disc. And the songs had to be under 4 and a half minutes!
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In 1933, when he was 31 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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