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Though the hot breakfast cuts have saved $900,000, HUDS has considered various plans to reinstate hot breakfast, Mayer said. But most suggestions have been “nickels and dimes??they don’t really have an impact...
...authorized a radio appeal urging every American to send a dime directly to the President to help beat polio. The first days of this “March of Dimes?? campaign produced a disappointing $17.50. However, a few days later, mail trucks started arriving at the White House. First there were 30,000 letters, then 50,000, and 150,000 the next day. Desks, offices, and corridors were buried in mail sacks. A total of 2,680,000 dimes had been sent. With this outpouring of generosity from ordinary Americans, Roosevelt established the nonprofit health agency known today...
Band members solicited donations in House dining halls, requesting that each student contribute two dimes to the cause. In just one night, organizers collected 1,115 dimes??one-tenth of the total sum needed. In addition to 10-cent contributions, some students pledged to recruit the help of cow-farming relatives in Texas in order to get a hide large enough for the new drum...
...great president. Period. Reagan was a bad president. Period. Dartboard calls for boycotting any and all Reagan dimes??if ever any such horrible symbols of partisan vanity come into existence. Better yet, send them all to the Democratic nominee...
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