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Gethel Swink 1914 - 1994

Gethel Swink of Davenport, Scott County, IA was born on January 21, 1914, and died at age 80 years old in June 1994.

Gethel Swink
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Davenport, Scott County, IA 52803
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January 21, 1914
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June 1994
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In 1914, in the year that Gethel Swink was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1933, at the age of 19 years old, Gethel 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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Swink, Janice (Apr 4, 1927 - Nov 17, 2002) Swink, Honor (Jan 27, 1912 - Mar 15, 1989) Swink, Margaret (Sep 9, 1920 - Aug 8, 1999) Swink, Homer (May 4, 1921 - Nov 1971) Swink, William (Feb 19, 1982 - Dec 19, 2009) Swink, Joseph (Feb 12, 1910 - Dec 12, 1991) Swink, Frances (Aug 25, 1933 - May 25, 2009) Swink, Jessie (May 13, 1928 - Jul 10, 2011) Swink, Winifred (Nov 3, 1900 - Apr 2, 1989) Swink, Marian (Jul 23, 1909 - Mar 1968)
Swink, Lucille (Jul 6, 1905 - Jun 1980) Swink, Frieda (Nov 27, 1920 - May 1, 2000) Swink, Willa (Dec 2, 1915 - Aug 15, 1999) Swink, Katherine (Mar 8, 1921 - Sep 29, 2003) Swink, Elsie (Feb 28, 1907 - Mar 1987) Swink, Marian (Aug 11, 1898 - Jun 25, 1990) Swink, Ena (May 15, 1907 - Jun 6, 1994) Swink, Charles (Sep 28, 1910 - Mar 8, 1993) Swink, Helen (Nov 9, 1891 - Jul 10, 1988) Swink, Alta (Oct 1, 1922 - Aug 19, 1999)
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