Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALABAMA: Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...
...Confirmed the appointment of Marion B. Folsom as Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare, and of Ohio's H. Chapman Rose to Folsom's old job as Under Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate also confirmed Reuben B. Robertson as Deputy Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert Anderson, after Robertson had divested himself of 75 shares of B.F. Goodrich stock (valued at $5,000) and 340 shares of Procter & Gamble stock ($34,000). Both companies do defense work...
Named last week by President Eisenhower to be the second U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare: MARION BAYARD FOLSOM, 61, welfare-minded businessman...
...only Godfrey had visited the city when the mercury topped 100°, Montgomerians could be "doubly sure that he won't be back." Quick to take umbrage at this affront was Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, who hates the Advertiser ("them lying newspapers") as much as it deplores him, reads no Alabama daily newspaper at all. To Godfrey from Kissin' Jim went a sympathetic letter of apology. Folsom just wanted Godfrey to know that he is "one of the greatest entertainers of all kinds," gave...
...Montgomery's hilly Dexter Avenue, banners fluttered with the phrase "Y'all come.'' Theater marquees proclaimed: "Welcome Back, Jim." Alabama put on its longest (twelve miles) and loudest (126 bands) parade for the U.S.'s tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) governor: Big Jim Folsom, 46, making a comeback after one sorry term, a bastardy suit in 1948 (later dismissed) and other troubles. Once famed as "Kissin' Jim," a whisky-drinking merry widower, he remarried, paraded in an Oldsmobile convertible, with his pretty wife and six children (two by his first wife, four...