When Gladys Mae Petty was born on 20 July 1921, in Zena, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Clarence Franklin Petty, was 31 and her mother, Eura Mae Howard, was 33. She married Clifford Bryan Baker Jr on 23 November 1941, in Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Ketchum, Craig, Oklahoma, United States in 1940 and Afton, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 30 January 1978, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Afton, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
English: variant of Petit . The name is also found inIreland, the main branch there having been established in County Kerryin the 17th century by Sir William Petty.
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