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...surprising to hardly anyone else. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, in poor health and discouraged over the failure of his school-construction program to make headway in Congress, has been wanting to resign for months. And President Eisenhower's intention to name Arthur Flemming as his new HEW Secretary was one of Washington's worst-kept secrets...
...found snooping around his jurisdiction to investigate denial of Negro voting rights. Patterson is strongly favored in his runoff with Wallace next June, but either way, Alabama can be sure of having just the sort of segregationist Governor it likes to succeed outgoing Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
...proxy war, said management will solicit proxies from stockholders for the first time. But it will have to battle some of the brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston; Frank M. Folsom, executive committee chairman of Radio Corp. of America; and Harold H. Helm, board chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...
...Secretary Marion Folsom of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare added some more dismaying figures to convince the Congress that something must be done to help the nation's colleges and universities. In addition to the 18,000 new college teachers needed each year to replace those who retire or die, the colleges must have between 180,000 and 270,000 more...
...While 40% of all Russian high school pupils study English, only ten out of 25,000 U.S. high schools offer Russian. Meanwhile, the number of college graduates qualified to teach a foreign language has dropped 30% since 1950. In this field, said Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, "we find ourselves the most backward major nation in the world...