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October 10, 1936 issue

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U.S. Presidential candidate Alfred Landon has made one of his costliest blunders on the issue of social security — an issue out of which he had every opportunity to make political capital. No law passed by the U.S. government falls as far short of the U.S. President's glittering promises as the federal Social Security Act. The government had no excuse for failure. Committees of experts had been working on the general problem for nearly eighteen months before the law was finally passed. Yet when it came to a showdown the government deliberately rejected the advice of practically all the experts it had assembled.

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SOCIAL security -- Law & legislation; PRESIDENTS -- United States -- Election; LANDON, Alfred; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; LEGISLATIVE bodies -- Committees; UNITED States
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