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{{a|devil|}}The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was — and is, a US charity, set up at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prompting, to combat polio. <Ref>Eddie Cantor invented the title "The March of Dimes" for the donation campaign in 1938 — it was a play on “The March of Time” newsreels popular at the time. The radio campaign asked listeners to | {{a|devil|}}The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was — and is, a US charity, originally set up at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prompting, to combat polio.<Ref>Eddie Cantor invented the title "The March of Dimes" for the donation campaign in 1938 — it was a play on “The March of Time” newsreels popular at the time. The radio campaign asked listeners to “mail a dime” to Roosevelt, a well known polio sufferer.</ref> | ||
After funding Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, which basically eradicated polio in 1952, the organisation “expanded its focus” — pivoted, as they say — to address the prevention of birth defects and infant mortality generally, rather than for polio specifically, since polio specifically turned out not to be the enduring problem. | |||
This is all good news, of course — but, as {{author|John Gall}} observes<ref>{{br|Systemantics: The Systems Bible}}</ref> it serves as a prescient and salutary reminder that [[power structure]]s established for a one purpose, which meet it, do not fold up their tents and go away. [[Power structure]]s tend to have lives, and survival instincts, that transcend their earthly purpose. | This is all good news, of course — but, as {{author|John Gall}} observes<ref>{{br|Systemantics: The Systems Bible}}</ref> it serves as a prescient and salutary reminder that [[power structure]]s established for a one purpose, which meet it, do not fold up their tents and go away. [[Power structure]]s tend to have lives, and survival instincts, that transcend their earthly purpose. |