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Mary Besta 1896 - 1988

Mary Besta of Madison, Davidson County, TN was born on April 27, 1896, and died at age 92 years old in December 1988.

Mary Besta

Madison, Davidson County, TN 37115

April 27, 1896

December 1988

Female

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April 27, 1896

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1988

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December 1988

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Mary Besta lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.

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In 1896, in the year that Mary Besta was born, on January 28th, the first ticket for speeding - called "furious driving" - was issued. Walter Arnold of Kent England was fined 1 shilling plus costs - for going 8 mph. The speed limit was 2 mph.

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In 1938, when she was 42 years old, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

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