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...rest of his last week in Denver, however, Ike began presidential duties in earnest. He received a stream of reports on the Geneva conference and Middle East crisis, welcomed more visitors, issued more orders. Other presidential work done: ¶With Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, he discussed possible improvements in Administration proposals for federal aid to education, expressed pleasure at the news that the Salk vaccine has reduced paralytic polio an average...
Alabama's easygoing Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, something of a Baptist himself, was totally immersed in hot water all week long by disapproving hard-shell fellow Baptists. First off, the Bessemer Baptist Association accused Folsom of "profaning a prayer." Kissin' Jim's reported praise to a parson: "That was a damned good Baptist prayer!" The governor was then accused by high drys of shamelessly grappling with John Barleycorn during a late-hour press conference. Alabama newsmen, not overly fond of Folsom, had gleefully reported that Kissin' Jim, brandishing a three-quarters-full highball...
With Salk polio vaccinations about to resume after the summer stoppage Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion B. Folsom and U.S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele issued preliminary reports on the 1955 vaccination program...
ALABAMA: Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...
...Confirmed the appointment of Marion B. Folsom as Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare, and of Ohio's H. Chapman Rose to Folsom's old job as Under Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate also confirmed Reuben B. Robertson as Deputy Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert Anderson, after Robertson had divested himself of 75 shares of B.F. Goodrich stock (valued at $5,000) and 340 shares of Procter & Gamble stock ($34,000). Both companies do defense work...