Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In 1933, he was 20 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. In 1924, Theodore was just 11 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". during World War I and championed the League of Nations. Previously the Governor of New Jersey and President of Princeton University, he was the first Southerner to serve as President since Zachary Taylor, over 60 years previous. In 1913, in the year that Theodore Jarzynka was born, Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States in March. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Theodore's lifetime.
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