Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor James E. Folsom, in no kissin' mood, sued the Reader's Digest for $1,000,000 on the ground that an article on the Alabama penal system called "Devil's Island, U.S.A." was a libel on him and "on the people of Alabama...
Touchy moviemen sent an angry protest to RCA President Frank Folsom about a skit by TV Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC-TV). The skit, showing a theater owner literally dragging patrons off the sidewalks and a cashier baiting passers-by in a low-cut evening gown, had "done serious damage to the industry." The moviemen asked RCA to "take steps immediately to see that this scene is not repeated on other stations." Martin & Lewis quickly apologized...
Adding his own postscript to the report, C.E.D. Chairman Marion B. Folsom, treasurer of Eastman Kodak Co., summed up the job for management: "Everyone [must] receive, and feel that he is receiving, a square deal...
...chairman of C.E.D., Folsom will campaign for an ever-expanding U.S. economy. Explained he last week: "We want to find a way to continue to raise real wages, to increase American productivity and make more of these products available to workmen for their wages...
...Marion Folsom has been a sparkplug of C.E.D. since it was first organized in 1942. He helped lay the groundwork for the Social Security Act of 1935, has made Eastman Kodak's pension and profit-sharing plans so successful that they are imitated by many other U.S. companies. He has also urged that Social Security be expanded to cover everyone and that benefits be raised...