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Helen M Torvela 1920 - 1997

Helen M Torvela of Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, FL was born on August 12, 1920, and died at age 76 years old on June 8, 1997. Helen Torvela was buried at Florida National Cemetery Section 402 Site 1083 6502 Sw. 102nd Ave., in Bushnell.

Helen M Torvela
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Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, FL 33460
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August 12, 1920
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Updated: October 3, 2011
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Helen M Torvela Helen Torvela (1920 - 1997)
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    Branch of service: Us Marine Corps Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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In 1920, in the year that Helen M Torvela was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1933, Helen was only 13 years old 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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Torvela, Henry (Apr 11, 1891 - Dec 1969) Torvela, Hanna (Sep 12, 1890 - Jul 1969) Torvela, Henry (Feb 2, 1917 - Jan 30, 2000)
Torvela, Erick (Apr 14, 1888 - Jul 1965) Torvela, Fanny (May 11, 1892 - Apr 1968)
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