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Walter Gesell 1920 - 1979

Walter Gesell was born on June 19, 1920, and died at age 59 years old in December 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Walter Gesell.

Walter Gesell

June 19, 1920

December 1979

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December 1979

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Walter Gesell lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.

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In 1920, in the year that Walter Gesell was born, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.

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In 1933, at the age of only 13 years old, Walter was alive when 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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