SOCIAL SERVICES: Breaking Soil

Coming to a period in his discourse, President Roosevelt tossed his head back, looked down his nose at the gathering before him and announced emphatically: "I have not changed my opinion."

The opinion the President had not changed was the one set forth in his extraordinary message to Congress last June. At that time he declared in favor of legislation to provide "security against several of the great disturbing factors in life-especially those which relate to unemployment and old age...." Thereafter he appointed a Committee on Economic Security, which in turn gathered around...

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