Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, yesterday backed Health Secretary Marion Folsom's stand in opposing increased federal aid for medical research at this time. Folsom had testified last week that medical school facilities were presently inadequate to train specialists for additional research programs...
...Folsom had defended the Administration's medical budget against the alternate "Smith Bill," which would double the appropriations requested by the President for medical research as well as construction...
...Smith's estimates are justified by the need for medical research, Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology, said yesterday. Folsom forgets, Farber maintained, that government assistance has a "pump-priming" effect on public contributions. The Administration's fears of overexpenditure are unjustified, especially since the appropriation is spread over a five-year period," Farber added...
...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...
Justice for Negroes is hard to come by in Alabama though, and a solution for the problem defies everyone but the cloistered idealist. Battle lines are drawn, and only sensitive hands can avoid pulling the hair trigger. Many doubt that Alabama's governor, James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, has the required delicacy. Nonetheless, the Governor has taken a step which is in itself encouraging. By calling for a biracial commission to study race relations throughout the state, Folsom has provided a means for sane communication between Negro and white leaders. Lack of communication is a fundamental cause of misunderstanding...