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| This cartoon stamp was part of a series produced
by the Republican party for the 1932 presidential election.
The series was designed to attack the Democratic candidate,
Franklin Roosevelt, and other stamps in the series depicted
FDR as a Frankenstein monster run amok, as using the Constitution
to light his cigarettes, and the like. This stamp was intended
to imply that FDR would drain the pockets of America's workers
to fill the pot of America's elderly, by pushing through
the Townsend Plan if elected President. This particular
stamp is doubly ironic, since FDR was a vehement opponent
of the Townsend Plan, and many Republicans advocated Townsend-type
flat-benefit schemes as alternatives to Social Security
in the years following the 1932 election. |
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