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Jerry Aloysius Doyle
Roosevelt Favors Old Age Pensions, ca 1935
Editorial cartoon for The Philadelphia Record, ca 1935
After Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933, millions of hopeful Americans wrote him offering advice and requesting help. Appeals for old-age pensions were especially frequent and often quite poignant. As governor of New York, Roosevelt signed an Old Age Pension Bill, an action popular with voters as evidenced in this cartoon. On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Bill became law, promising a plan for social insurance as a safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." |