When Willie Mai Vanderpool was born in 1922, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Charley Swope Vanderpool, was 24 and her mother, Winnie Pearl Massey, was 21. She married Howard Sexton on 3 December 1938, in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 20 July 2003, at the age of 81.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Americanized form of Dutch Vanderpoel .
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