Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marion Bayard Folsom, 63, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was brought from his post as Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1955 to succeed retiring Oveta Gulp Hobby. He set to work with less fanfare, more success, preaching a doctrine that is the Eisenhower answer to the Fair Deal: the G.O.P. is not opposed to spending money for worthwhile welfare projects. Though softspoken and retiring, Folsom, when treasurer of Eastman Kodak and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, learned to be suave enough to counter pressure groups, courageous enough to fight against more con servative colleagues for programs...
...sleek, $4,000 imported Daimler thoughtfully provided him by his sisters. He planted the bombs in such public places as Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building and New York Public Library, followed them up with carefully worded, literate letters to the newspapers, cryptically signed "F.P." (for "Fair Play," he explained). George had planted 47 bombs; scores of crackpots sent the cops on fruitless chases for imaginary missiles, and news-hungry New Yorkers tingled to every minute...
...Happy Man. So did George, who wanted only to publicize his grievance. Then one day he picked up a copy of the Hearst New York Journal-American "Give yourself up," read an open letter to the Mad Bomber. "You will get a fair trial." George could not resist answering. The J-A continued to play him on the line; slowly George's cautious replies produced enough information to send Con Edison clerks scurrying through a mass of old "troublemaker" files. Sure enough, there was George's folder...
...inflation," he wrote, "cannot be successfully carried by [Government] fiscal and monetary restraints alone." Echoing his State of the Union message (TIME, Jan. 21), he appealed to business and labor leaders "to help avoid economic imbalance and dislocation ... to reach agreements on wages and other labor benefits that are fair to the rest of the community. Negotiated wage increases should be consistent with productivity prospects and with the maintenance of a stable dollar. And businesses must recognize the broad public interest in the prices set on their products and services." The President added a warning: "Failure to accept the responsibilities...
...commemorate her "vast contributions to the cause of fair play," Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias received a posthumous award from the U.S. Golf Association: the Bobby Jones plaque for sportsmanship...