An entire floor of IBM machines in Baltimore’s Candler Building was devoted to handling paperwork from this program. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this program begun during the New Deal. Alan Greenspan headed a commission that increased contributions to this program’s Trust Fund.
ANSWER: Social Security [accept OAI or Old-Age Insurance Program; or Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; or OASDI]
[10e] This organization was pivotal to processing the 26 million Form 5’s needed to enroll people into Social Security. In 2009, this government agency floated ending Saturday delivery.
ANSWER: United States Postal Service [or USPS; or US Mail; accept Post Office]
[10h] An Oklahoma senator of this surname interrogated Frances Perkins over the “socialistic” nature of Social Security. A Tennessee senator of this surname opposed the Southern Manifesto.
ANSWER: Gore [accept Thomas Gore or Albert Gore]
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