The 32nd President of the United States (1933 – 1945)

  
     President Roosevelt giving his famous ‘Infamy Speech” to Congress    

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.

   
                                    Poster from the 1950’s  

                
                The silver Roosevelt dime first issued in 1946

President Roosevelt ordered the wartime rationing
of gasoline nationwide. A person had to present a
a gas card and have a sticker on their vehicle
when making a gasoline purchase. Books of
ration stamps were also issued for other
commodities during World War ll.

 
              Example of a gas ration card.

A vehicle with a gas ration sticker in the window.