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William E Crawford 1916 - 2004

William E Crawford of Ocean View, Sussex County, DE was born on October 26, 1916, and died at age 87 years old on January 18, 2004.
William E Crawford
Ocean View, Sussex County, DE 19970
October 26, 1916
January 18, 2004
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  • 10/26
    1916

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    October 26, 1916
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  • 01/18
    2004

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    January 18, 2004
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    William E Crawford lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1916, in the year that William E Crawford was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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In 1933, at the age of 17 years old, William 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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