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After hearing from Jessie, reporters for the first time in years began dialing Cabinet wives, asking if they would like to see their husbands resign. Pamela Humphrey (Treasury) and Isabelle Mitchell (Labor) were out of town. Janet Dulles (State), Jane Weeks (Commerce) and Mary Folsom (Health, Education and Welfare) declined to comment, but four wives had something to say and no hesitation in saying it. Flora Benson (Agriculture): "As long as the President wants my husband to remain in Washington, I will be happy to stay here." Gladys Seaton (Interior): "I endorse Mrs. Benson's sentiment." Miriam Summerfield (Post...
Marion Bayard Folsom, 63, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was brought from his post as Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1955 to succeed retiring Oveta Gulp Hobby. He set to work with less fanfare, more success, preaching a doctrine that is the Eisenhower answer to the Fair Deal: the G.O.P. is not opposed to spending money for worthwhile welfare projects. Though softspoken and retiring, Folsom, when treasurer of Eastman Kodak and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, learned to be suave enough to counter pressure groups, courageous enough to fight against more con servative colleagues for programs...
...chief clients was Radio Corp. of America, which Burns has advised for the last ten years. Last week RCA used Burns to solve a major problem: where to find a younger president with broad experience and knowledge of the corporation. The new president: Burns. He will succeed President Frank Folsom, 62, who will become chairman of the executive committee...
...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...