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Franklin D Roosevelt Important Signed image to Basil O\'Connor Polio law 1927:
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Franklin D Roosevelt Important inscribed Signed 1927 image to Basil O\'Connor. Roosevelt in the beginning of his political career. A law partner with Basil. Exceptional and historical connection to Roosevelt, O\'Connor and the history of Polio awareness. Inscription and signature with wonderful strong tones. Cross over and ink flow is appropriate. Letter format and slant all characteristic to Roosevelt.
Basil O\'Connor did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth and graduated from Harvard, then was admitted to the bar to practice law in 1915. For one year he worked in New York for the law firm of Craveth& Henderson, and for the next three years for Streeter & Holmes in Boston. In 1919 he founded his own law firm in New York. In 1920 O\'Connor metFDR, who was running for Vice President on the Democratic ticket. O\'Connor became his legal advisor. In 1924 the two men associated in their own law firm which existed until Roosevelt\'s first Presidential inauguration in 1933. Beginning in 1934 O\'Connor was senior partner in the law firm of O\'Connor & Farber. He was also executive manager of a number of companies, among them the New England Fuel Oil Corporation in the 1920s, and the American Reserve Insurance Corporation and the West Indies Sugar Corporation in the 1940s. Fight against polioIn August 1921, while vacationing with his family at their summer home on CamboIsland, Franklin D. Rooseveltfell illand was diagnosed withpolio.FDR later sought therapy at a resort in Warm Springs, Georgia. After visiting Roosevelt there O\'Connor characterized the place as \"a miserable mess\", and he decided to promote public support for the rehabilitation of those with polio. In 1927, he and Roosevelt and a group of friends created the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, in which O\'Connor served first as treasurer and later as president. More than $1 million was raised for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation by the first nationwide President\'s Birthday Ball on January 30, 1934. The foundation was reconstituted as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, founded by Roosevelt on January 3, 1938. The nationwide President\'s Birthday Ball of 1938 was dubbed \"theMarch of Dimes\"and in time it became the foundation\'s official name.The notable fundraising campaign appealed to Americans to \"send your dime to President Roosevelt at the White House\" for the fight against polio. The 1938 campaign was a smashing success and revolutionized fundraising in America, with over $1,800,000 raised. \"His genius was in generating large numbers of relatively small contributions for a cause,\"The New York Timeswrote of O\'Connor. \"Over the years he collected and spent more than seven billion dimes — many of them from schoolchildren — with a half-billion dollars of it going to the war on polio.\"[ Publishercredited O\'Connor with a \"unique social invention: a permanently self-sustaining source of funds for the support of research — the voluntary health organization.\" With a centralized administration, state and local chapters and a large corps of volunteers, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis became the prototype for dozens of similar foundations. The organization initially focused on the rehabilitation of victims of paralytic polio, and supported the work ofJonas Salkand others that led to the development ofPolioVaccinesOn April 12, 1955 – ten years after Roosevelt\'s death – the National Foundation published the successful results of Salk\'s research on the development of a polio vaccine. After Roosevelt\'s death, the foundation gradually began taking care of patients with handicaps of all kinds. from wiki.
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