The President's News Conference
04/23/1947
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In coming to our rescue through last year's epidemic, the National Foundation exhausted its funds from the 1946 March of Dimes and drew heav...
The National Foundation, supported by your gifts, reaches into every corner of the country to find and help the stricken.
If there is one of you who has not yet joined the March of Dimes, I urge you to go now and enlist.
As the total cases mounted, panic spread; fantastic cures were advertised, for sale and not for sale.