The name ‘March of Dimes’ was coined (pun intended) by Eddie Cantor as a play on the newsreel feature, The March of Time.

Before that, The March of Dimes organization was called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and founded in 1938, during FDR’s presidency. FDR was supposedly paralyzed from Polio, though apparently some people think that was a misdiagnosis. The original idea of MoD (then NFfIP) was for everyone to give one dime to the charity.

After the Polio vaccine was discovered in 1955, the charity decided to broaden its original scope to involve the improvement of all baby related health.

The dime was first minted in 1796. FDR was added to the obverse of the coin shortly after his death in 1946, mostly in homage to FDR’s involvement with the March of Dimes. At the time, the dime was the only US coin to not have a president on it already. It had a pretty neat looking Winged Liberty Head, nicknamed Mercury, as it looked like the Roman goddess of the same name.

Then, in 1998, Blade robbed a vampire to fund his crusade. The kinda hot girl, who was a blood-doctor for some reason, accused him of doing something wrong, and he told her “This ain’t exactly the March of Dimes.” That ended that discussion!

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