Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of emergency, suspended all bus operations "until further notice" and urged parents of both races to keep their teen-age children off the streets at night. Some 75 police reservists were alerted for emergency duty; special squads were armed with shotguns and tear gas. Alabama Governor James E. Folsom, after a tour of the damaged areas, offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the bombers. "Any person," said he, "who would bomb the House of the Lord endangers the life of every man, woman and child in Montgomery. I call on all people...
...earlier the President had met with Republican leaders, paraded his Cabinet before them for a preview of requests to come. Health, Education and Welfare's Marion Folsom sought last session's ill-fated school-construction program, this time asked to have the $2 billion job done in four years instead of five. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. asked for the same civil-rights program that was pigeonholed in the Senate Judiciary Committee last summer. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton forecast no change in the Administration's plan for developing natural resources through public-private "partnership" cooperation. One surprise...
President Eisenhower last week backed up Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom in a plea for prompt use of the 17 million doses of polio vaccine now stockpiled by manufacturers, plus untold millions in drugstore and health-department refrigerators. Targets: children who have had less than the recommended three shots, and adults, who are in time to get three shots before midsummer if they act promptly...
When Secretary Marion Folsom and his colleagues in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare began looking for a successor to Education Commissioner Samuel Brownell, one name kept cropping up over and over again: Superintendent Lawrence Gridley Derthick of Chattanooga. Last week President Eisenhower, who had once heard Derthick hold forth at a Columbia Teachers College seminar, announced that Derthick...
...amateurs recognized the importance of their find. The spearhead was a partially fluted "Clovis point"-so called because the first such flint specimen was found near Clovis, N. Mex. Clovis points have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...