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...Federal help was necessary under the stress of unprecedented economic disturbance," stated John G. Winant, National Chairman of the Social Security Board to a member of the H-Y-P Conference Committee, as he enthusiastically pronounced the Social Security Act the era's most important legislation in its field...
...been written or interviewed. Those who have accepted definitely are: Dr. Isador Lubin, economist, at present U.S.Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Frank W. Pierce, exeutive assistant to Walter Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; Robert J. Watt, secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor; Ex-Governor Winant, head of the Social Security Board; and Royal Parkinson, manager of personnel activities of the American Optical Company...
...conferences. Yes, he thought something should be done to regulate the influx of foreign funds ("hot money," he called it) whose sudden withdrawal might cause a stockmarket panic. No, he still did not think any new taxes would be necessary. Yes, he would not be surprised if John Gilbert Winant, who resigned during the campaign, should return to head the Social Security Board.* No, he had not given any thought to filling vacant posts in his official family. On only two points was he at all definite: He urged the U.S. people this year as always to celebrate Thanksgiving...
...Three days later the President wrote Mr. Winant a letter drafting him at least temporarily...
...days later Chairman John G. Winant of the Social Security Board, idealistic onetime Governor of New Hampshire, turned in his resignation to fight his fellow-Republican on the Social Security issue, at the same time telling President Roosevelt: "I have never assumed that the . . . Act was without fault...