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A funding appeal in the USA in the late 1930's was given a catchy name by a celebrity. What was the name, who was the celebrity and what was the appeal for?

 

struggling here................

 

It had something to do with President Roosevelt - but he's not the celebrity.

 

Thanks......

Was this the March of Dimes coined by Eddie Cantort to raise money for polio?



Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later renamed the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938. A predominantly childhood disease in the early 20th century, polio wreaked havoc among American children every summer. The virus, which affects the central nervous system, flourished in contaminated food and water and was easily transmitted. Those who survived the disease usually suffered from debilitating paralysis into their adult lives. In 1921, at the relatively advanced age of 39, Roosevelt contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. With the help of the media, his Secret Service and careful event planning, Roosevelt managed to keep his disease out of the public eye, yet his personal experience inspired in him an empathy with the handicapped and prompted him to the found the March of Dimes.
In 1926, Roosevelt started the non-profit Georgia Warm Springs Foundation on the site of the springs he visited to partake of the waters’ therapeutic effects. Twelve years later, he reinvented the charity as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP). The NFIP was a non-partisan association of health scientists and volunteers that helped fund research for a polio vaccine and assisted victims on the long path through physical rehabilitation. Funded originally through the generosity of wealthy celebrities at yearly President’s Birthday Balls, the foundation could not raise money fast enough to keep pace with polio’s continued toll on America’s children and, during the Depression, the polio epidemic worsened. In 1938, Roosevelt decided to appeal to the general public for help. At one fundraiser, celebrity singer Eddie Cantor jokingly urged the public to send dimes to the president, coining the term March of Dimes. The public took his appeal seriously, flooding the White House with 2,680,000 dimes and thousands of dollars in donations.

In subsequent years, the March of Dimes continued to lead lucrative fundraising campaigns that set the model for other health-related foundations. In 1941, the foundation provided funding for the development of an improved iron lung, which helped polio patients to breathe when muscle control of the lungs was lost. The March of Dimes appointed Dr. Jonas Salk to lead research for a polio vaccine in 1949. Roosevelt, who died in 1945, did not live to see Salk develop and test the first successful polio vaccine in 1955.

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The short answer is yes...

All yours...

 

<Yorkie very red faced>

ooooops sorry i ddint mean to cut and paste all of that... and didnt check...... <Yorkie in shame>

 

OK.... fresh start.......

Who lost there crown recently ...and why?

 

....and then got it back.....

 

Was going to say the England rugby team until you added that..

 

Divorce was an issue

 

That would be Mrs World... Mrs Sri Lanka was claimed to be a divorcee and last years winner ripped the crown from her head. She's actually only separated so she got her title back. Mrs Fez showed me the story last night, and one of our favourite films is Miss Congeniality - the scenes were reminiscent!

 

And for those who've seen neither of the Miss Congeniality films, you ought to at least see the first one because Michael Caine's performance is absolutely brilliant, stealing every scene he's in.

 

You got it!

 

alas, what I don't have is a question... I will later on!

 

Why is the air in Flintshire likely to be particularly pungent?

 

Something to do with the plans for a German company to build an energy centre - to generate heat and gas from industrial waste?

 

No, but something to do with "The Germans"... historically!

 

A German company wants to build an 'Energy Centre' in Flintshire ... recycling waste for energy??/

 

No this is a historical thing that may have come into existence because of "The Germans"... Dulce et decorum est, and all that!
You wouldn't want a leak...