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Ruth C Corke 1920 - 1997

Ruth C Corke of Watseka, Iroquois County, IL was born on October 5, 1920, and died at age 77 years old on December 26, 1997.

Ruth C Corke
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Watseka, Iroquois County, IL 60970
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In 1920, in the year that Ruth C Corke 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, when she was merely 13 years old, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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Corke, David (Aug 23, 1934 - Jan 6, 2010) Corke, Walter (Aug 6, 1899 - Jul 1984) Corke, Kathleen (Nov 20, 1900 - Jan 1986) Corke, Elizabeth (Nov 18, 1906 - Jan 20, 1988) Corke, Lillian (Jul 22, 1915 - Nov 15, 2008) Corke, Henry (Jul 28, 1885 - Dec 1966) Corke, Mark (Apr 22, 1881 - May 1971) Corke, Robert (Oct 19, 1889 - Jan 1978) Corke, Dorothy (Dec 24, 1931 - Dec 14, 2008) Corke, Fanny (Jan 18, 1931 - May 31, 1995)
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