Clarence Dillingham v. Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

The District Court declined to set aside the action of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the denial of disability benefits to the appellant under the Social Security Act. We affirm.

The case has a long history, all of which was thoroughly analyzed in the decision of the hearing examiner dated August 12, 1966. We shall allude only to those portions of that lengthy recitation necessary to the decision of this appeal.

The claimant, Clarence Dillingham, appellant here, filed his first application on January 18, 1957, alleging that he became unable to work in November of 1947…