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William John Samos 1921 - 2007

William John Samos of Warwick, Kent County, RI was born on August 19, 1921, and died at age 86 years old on September 25, 2007. William Samos was buried at Rhode Island Veteran Memorial Cemetery Section I-6 Row 18 Site 706 301 South County Trail, in Exeter.
William John Samos
Warwick, Kent County, RI 02888
August 19, 1921
September 25, 2007
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  • 08/19
    1921

    Birthday

    August 19, 1921
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Coast Guard Rank attained: QM2 Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 09/25
    2007

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    September 25, 2007
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    Rhode Island Veteran Memorial Cemetery Section I-6 Row 18 Site 706 301 South County Trail, in Exeter, Ri 02822
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In 1921, in the year that William John Samos was born, hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..
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In 1933, at the age of just 12 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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