When Thomas Edward Grayson Jr was born on 24 August 1918, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, his father, Thomas Edward Grayson, was 29 and his mother, Rose Elva Yeoman, was 19. He married Matilda Ruth Galloway on 15 March 1940, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 23 May 2007, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
English (northern): variant of Graveson, ‘son of the steward, farm bailiff, or village headman’. From the North Midlands through Yorkshire to the north-west, the source is Middle English grayve, grayve, greve, a borrowing of Old Norse greifi ‘earl, count’ (see Grave ). In Durham and Northumberland the source is Middle English greve, from Old (Northumbrian) English grǣfa with the same meaning (see Grieve ).
English: possibly a habitational name from Greysouthen (Cumbria), recorded as Graysone in 1505.
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