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Leona Bleakney 1905 - 1987

Leona Bleakney of Newton, Jasper County, Iowa was born on July 27, 1905, and died at age 81 years old in March 1987.

Leona Bleakney
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Newton, Jasper County, Iowa 50208
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July 27, 1905
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In 1905, in the year that Leona Bleakney was born, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded. An international labor union founded in Chicago, it was most often referred to as the "Wobblies" and had ties to the socialist movement and the anarchist movement. At its peak, it had 150,000 members.
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In 1933, she was 28 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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Bleakney, Charles (Sep 18, 1910 - Apr 1974) Bleakney, Charles (Dec 25, 1924 - Dec 1979) Bleakney, Melbourne (Aug 8, 1890 - Jun 1978) Bleakney, Iva (May 21, 1896 - Mar 1968) Bleakney, Dorothy (Aug 23, 1920 - Nov 1975) Bleakney, Annette (Apr 13, 1923 - Feb 2, 2011) Bleakney, Horace (May 25, 1903 - Feb 1967) Bleakney, Paul (Jan 19, 1925 - Mar 1966) Bleakney, Arthur (Jul 23, 1918 - Oct 14, 1993) Bleakney, Robert (Oct 23, 1901 - Jun 26, 1988)
Bleakney, Sidney (Sep 4, 1907 - Dec 31, 1987) Bleakney, Margaretha (Feb 4, 1912 - Apr 1995) Bleakney, Norman (Feb 13, 1919 - Aug 1968) Bleakney, James (Jun 11, 1934 - Sep 13, 1998) Bleakney, Peggy (Feb 11, 1931 - Feb 28, 2008) Bleakney, Stewart (Aug 24, 1912 - Apr 9, 1991) Bleakney, Mary (Aug 14, 1895 - Dec 1968) Bleakney, George (Aug 7, 1908 - Feb 1976) Bleakney, Charles (Jul 28, 1935 - Oct 18, 2004) Bleakney, William (Apr 7, 1924 - Jul 15, 1998)
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