Dimes for Infantile Paralysis foundation flow into White House for president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Official mail was nearly forgotten today at the White House as letters containing ten-cent contributions to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis continued to arrive by the thousands. M
Photograph of Missy LeHand, secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the morning mail arriving at the White House in response to an appeal to donate dimes to fight infantile paralysis as a way of celebrating the president's birthday — the first "March of Dimes" campaign
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- 1938-01-28
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