Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though President Eisenhower offered no definite plan for encouraging bright students, Health. Education & Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom hinted that the federal funds that now go into the vocational education program might well be used to raise straight academic standards. The University of Michigan set up a Special Science Advisory Committee in the hope of finding ways to increase the number of science Ph.D.s by 50%. New Mexico Superintendent of Public Instruction Georgia Lusk proposed that high school science and math requirements be doubled. But while New York City was also making noises about increasing science requirements, it was still trying...
...recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply because of public apathy, vaccine which might prevent paralysis or even death lies on the shelf unused...
...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote...
...Texas' Democrat Price Daniel, New Hampshire's Republican Lane Dwinell, Kansas' Democrat George Docking, Nebraska's Republican Victor Anderson. From Washington came a high-powered delegation headed by new Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Labor's Jim Mitchell, Health, Education and Welfare's Marion Folsom, and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Together they formed a serious action committee, and before the session broke up two days later, they had plotted one of the 20th century's most revolutionary programs: a pilot plan to return some important federal powers and responsibilities to the states...
...backed the measure. Republicans said the ax came from Howard Smith and Southern Democrats. The White House professed "great disappointment that the House did not see its way clear to pass a measure to meet this critical shortage of schools." The only one who said nothing was Marion Folsom. He, apparently, had said too much before the voting began...