Cites Protection Against Job Loss, Old-Age Poverty; 30 Million Persons to Benefit. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (A.P.) — President Roosevelt today signed into law a social security program he said would ...

The 52 most important weeks in Franklin Roosevelt’s career are the 52 weeks before he stands for reelection. If he is re-elected he has an excellent chance of being written down in history as a ...

When the Social Security Act was signed into law in 1935, it created a new social insurance program for workers and their families. Today, some argue this presidential election could be a crossroads ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to establish a system of benefits that covers several groups of Americans on Aug. 14, 1935. Most people know that Social Security ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president, signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, 1935. He did so a mere 14 months after he sent a special message to ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first sitting president to visit Las Vegas on Sept. 30, 1935, when he dedicated the Hoover Dam (then called Boulder Dam). Former Sen. Key Pittman, D-Nev., ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune will mark its 150th anniversary in 2018 by presenting a significant front page from the archives each day throughout the year. In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and ...

When Franklin Roosevelt took office he was deliberately backward about naming deserving Democrats to office. Instead, he dangled appointments before Congress like clover before a mule, easily guided ...

June 28 (UPI) --The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library this week released new, rarely seen video footage that shows the 32nd U.S. president walking at the White House -- not bound to his ...

On April 22, 1935, a tourist from New York named Fred Hill waded through the crowd at the White House Easter Egg Roll, pointed his movie camera at the South Portico and captured seven seconds of ...