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Michigan Vote Hinge on Social Security Wage Tax Issue
In Michigan a tight race between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alf Landon centers on the new Social Security levy. Republicans cite a wage tax starting next January and card indexing of workers, arguing it burdens labor in industrial centers and could tilt the outcome against Roosevelt in urban and northern areas.
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Detroit
Mich
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Michigan
Lansing
Mr. Roosevelt
New Deal
Frank D. Fitzgerald
Charles E. Coughlin
William Lemke
Union Party
Louis B. Ward
Prentiss Brown
Brown
Ward
Lemke
Father Coughlin
James Couzens
Wilber M. Brucker
Couzens
Senate
White House
William A. Comstock
Comstock
James A. Reed
Roosevvelt
National Democratic Committee
James A. Farley
Frank Martell
Republican State_ Central Committee
Detroit and
Wayne County Federation of Labor
Frank Murphy
Landon
Henry Ford
Ford
Labor