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Willie Mae Thurmond 1925 - 2010

Willie Mae Thurmond of Dyersburg, Dyer County, TN was born on October 7, 1925, and died at age 84 years old on January 6, 2010.
Willie Mae Thurmond
Dyersburg, Dyer County, TN 38024
October 7, 1925
January 6, 2010
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  • 10/7
    1925

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    October 7, 1925
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  • 01/6
    2010

    Death

    January 6, 2010
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    Willie Mae Thurmond lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1925, in the year that Willie Mae Thurmond was born, gangster Al "Scarface" Capone took over the Chicago bootlegging racket at age 26. Previously right hand man to boss Johnny Torrio, Capone took over when Torrio was shot and severely injured and decided to resign. The bootlegging and brothel organization was massive and when asked what he did, Capone often replied "I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want".
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In 1933, when this person was merely 8 years old, 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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