The President's News Conference on the Review of the 1947 Budget
08/01/1946
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The total of dead for that epidemic was more than 20 percent of the victims, most of whom were young children.
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.