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Florence Alfke 1901 - 2000

Florence Alfke of Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL was born on September 4, 1901, and died at age 98 years old on July 21, 2000.
Florence Alfke
Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL 33480
September 4, 1901
July 21, 2000
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Florence Alfke's History: 1901 - 2000

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  • 09/4
    1901

    Birthday

    September 4, 1901
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  • 07/21
    2000

    Death

    July 21, 2000
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    Florence Alfke lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
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In 1901, in the year that Florence Alfke was born, John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan created U.S. Steel. J.P. Morgan was an American banker and financier who dominated U.S. business at this time. He had previously overseen the creation of General Electric, as well as International Harvester and AT&T. He has been referred to as America's greatest banker. U.S. Steel was the first billion dollar company in the world, worth $1.4 billion in 1901.
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In 1933, at the age of 32 years old, Florence 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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