03
Jan
HEALTH CHARITY FORMED ON THIS DATE IN 1938
The MARCH OF DIMES campaign to fight polio was founded by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had contracted polio himself at the age of 39.
President Roosevelt and Basil O’Conner, organizer of the MARCH OF
DIMES campaign, count dimes at the White House.
Poster from the 1950’s
The silver Roosevelt dime first issued in 1946
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