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Columbus Askew 1933 - 1974

Columbus Askew was born on September 8, 1933, and died at age 40 years old in August 1974. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Columbus Askew.
Columbus Askew
September 8, 1933
August 1974
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Columbus Askew's History: 1933 - 1974

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    1933

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    September 8, 1933
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  • 08/dd
    1974

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    August 1974
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    Columbus Askew lived 31 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 40.
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In 1933, in the year that Columbus Askew was born, 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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In 1944, when he was just 11 years old, on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.
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