Brief Life History of Irene
When Irene Singer was born on 25 March 1920, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Charles A Singer, was 27 and her mother, Paulina Levine, was 21. She lived in West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1972 and Chestnut Hill, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 1 years. She died on 5 August 2007, at the age of 87.
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- Irene Porestsky in household of Charles A Singer, "United States Census, 1940"
- Irene Goren, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
- Irene Singer in household of Charles J Singer, "United States Census, 1930"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.
1944 · The G.I Bill
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Isadore, Emanuel, Meyer, Yisrael, Mort, Yetta, Yosef, Aron, Chaim.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.
English and Scottish (Aberdeenshire): occupational name from Middle English singer(e) ‘singer, cantor, reciter of verse, player of a musical instrument’. See also Sing , Sanger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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