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Roy Sykes 1905 - 1984

Roy Sykes of Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee was born on July 7, 1905, and died at age 78 years old in March 1984.
Roy Sykes
Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee 37311
July 7, 1905
March 1984
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Roy Sykes' History: 1905 - 1984

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  • 07/7
    1905

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    July 7, 1905
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  • 03/dd
    1984

    Death

    March 1984
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    Roy Sykes lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1905, in the year that Roy Sykes 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, at the age of 28 years old, Roy 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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