Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, important callers moved in and out of the Gettysburg office, where two-inch, bulletproof glass in heavy steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what...
Several University officials, including Keppel, will register in Washington this morning as part of the conference's planning committee. In this group are Overseers Neil H. McElroy '25, chairman of the committee, and Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and honorary vice-chairman of the committee...
...rest of his last week in Denver, however, Ike began presidential duties in earnest. He received a stream of reports on the Geneva conference and Middle East crisis, welcomed more visitors, issued more orders. Other presidential work done: ¶With Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, he discussed possible improvements in Administration proposals for federal aid to education, expressed pleasure at the news that the Salk vaccine has reduced paralytic polio an average...
Alabama's easygoing Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, something of a Baptist himself, was totally immersed in hot water all week long by disapproving hard-shell fellow Baptists. First off, the Bessemer Baptist Association accused Folsom of "profaning a prayer." Kissin' Jim's reported praise to a parson: "That was a damned good Baptist prayer!" The governor was then accused by high drys of shamelessly grappling with John Barleycorn during a late-hour press conference. Alabama newsmen, not overly fond of Folsom, had gleefully reported that Kissin' Jim, brandishing a three-quarters-full highball...
With Salk polio vaccinations about to resume after the summer stoppage Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion B. Folsom and U.S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele issued preliminary reports on the 1955 vaccination program...