Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft-spoken Hoosier settled down in an incompletely furnished office in Washington's Health, Education and Welfare Department last week to tackle a big job. As special assistant (to Secretary Marion Folsom) for health and medical affairs, Dr. Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall, 55, has a roving commission, but his special concerns are improving research, financing medical education and making hospital care simpler and cheaper...
With this allegory, Dr. Jonas Salk last week sought to turn the nation's thanks toward the many scientists who had worked on polio vaccine before him The occasion: award to Salk, by Health Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, of a specially minted congressional gold medal to honor his "great achievement" in developing the Salk polio vaccine...
...free vaccine for first-and second-grade school children in 1955, has stopped distributing vaccine, although some of its vaccine is still being used. The Government's $30 million vaccine grant to the states is available only until Feb. 15, but Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom says he will ask Congress to extend the deadline and appropriate additional funds (only $8,000,000 of the grant has been used...
...biggest target under Air Force sights since the Korean armistice, Alabama's overblown (248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead...
...Administration is seriously considering a national conference on higher education, according to Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare...