Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months of his second term as governor of Alabama, moose-tall (6 ft. 8 in.) James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom has striven to the limit of his limited talent to keep the peace between the races. He opposed or vetoed almost all the racist state legislature's anti-Negro bills; he criticized the spreading White Citizens' Councils. Last January he termed the legislature's resolution of nullification "nothing but hogwash," but he let the resolution pass without his signature so as to avoid an uproar...
...this spirit of moderation, Folsom submitted himself to the voters for a mid-term test of strength, running for Democratic national committeeman in the 1956 Democratic preferential primary. Last week Alabama rudely turned him down. Folsom won only four of the 62 counties he had won in 1955. He lost industrial Birmingham despite the support of the leaders of organized labor. He lost his own native Coffee County. He lost all of northern Alabama, the state's traditional stronghold of relative moderation. The tally against Kissin' Jim: 226,738 to 78,174, just short of three...
...note, thought Dr. Milton Krop, as he read it. The note was certainly not what he had expected to find when he made a routine call at the "Haunted House," a Victorian horror in Jackson Heights, on the Long Island reaches of New York City, where old Mrs. Folsom lived with her daughter. He stared at the bottle marked Poison that he clutched in one hand, and then at the terrified young woman whose wrist he held firmly in the other. The bottle, as the doctor had reason to know, contained a placebo-sugar pills. And the mother...
...final analysis, practically everyone except New York headline writers and opportunist Father Halton regretted that the initial invitation was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society, which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates. Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...
...Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had Father Halton regretted that the initial invition was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates...