Word: folsoms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then he toured the fair the way a political candidate should. Escorted by Green and Illinois' Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, he ate California grapes, munched a hamburger, downed chocolate milk and lemonade. He posed with, but refused to kiss, the Toni Twins. "That would be like Jim Folsom," he explained. He laid a hand on the back of a 1,500-lb. grand champion Hereford bull, awarded a silver platter to the owner of a prize boar, and shook 1,650 hands in 55 minutes. At every stop, he was mobbed by autograph seekers. Illinois Republicans could...
...Alabama divorcee who sued Governor Kissin' Jim Folsom as the father of her two-year-old-announced that she was now "tired of the whole mess," and asked permission to drop the suit. "Your petitioner has come to realize," she explained after a few months' thought, "that she has been . . . used as a political tool...
...months after she filed the suit, Folsom was defeated as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention...
Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, defeated in the Alabama primaries, suffered another setback; a judge refused to dismiss the paternity suit against him, ordered it tried on its merits...
Soft Pickings. In Folsom, Calif., someone forged two wardens' names and cashed checks stolen from the state penitentiary...