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Excerpt from: Statement Of The President On September Twenty-Third I have been very much concerned, over the epidemics of infantile paralysis which have been prevalent in many cities in different parts of the country. I have had reports from many areas in which this disease is again spreading its destruction. And once again there is brought forcibly to my mind the constantly increasing accumulation of ruined lives... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Statement Of The President On September Twenty-Third | |
| Creator: | Franklin D. Roosevelt (author) | |
| Date: | September 23, 1937 | |
| Format: | Speech | |
| Source: | Franklin D. Roosevelt Library | |
| Control no.: | President's Personal File 4885, Committee for the Celebration of the President’s Birthday, 1937 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Birthday Balls; Charity; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Doctors; Economics; Epidemics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Fundraising; Georgia; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis; Physical Disability; Polio; Public Health; Public Relations; Rehabilitation; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities; Treatments Therapies Cures; Warm Springs Foundation | |
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| Funding Support Provided By: | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
