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...rose Director Oveta Gulp Hobby: "There is absolutely no foundation of truth in the statement." Tough old War Secretary Henry L. Stimson was moved to issue a formal statement: "... I have made a thorough investigation of all these rumors.* They are completely false. . . . Anything which would interfere with [WAAC] recruiting or destroy the reputation of this corps and, by so doing, interfere with increase in combat strength of our Army, would [aid] the enemy...
...House Committee prepared to throw in a few restrictions: 1) WAAC officers may command women only; 2) WAACs may not draw dependency pay from soldier husbands; 3) the WAAC's commanding officer, photogenic, 38-year-old Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, may not rise above that rank. Thus with the, WAAC strength headed toward 375,000, Colonel Hobby will have more troops under her administrative control than several lieutenant generals...
Director Oveta Gulp Hobby, a colonel's eagles on her shoulders and the WAAC's Pallas Athene on her lapels, reviewed her charges for the first time last week. Said she: "Military tradition has given way to a pressing need and you are the first women to serve as an auxiliary force with the United States Army. Never forget it. You have taken off silk and put on khaki. And all for essentially the same reason-you have a debt and a date. A debt to democracy, a date with destiny...
...chronicling the appointment of Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby [TIME, May 25] you mentioned her husband, William Pettus Hobby, as being a "former Texas Governor." I am wondering if you didn't "miscue" on that one. Just when was William Pettus Hobby a Governor of Texas? Although I have never been "deep in the heart of Texas," I have kept a fairly keen eye on the political goings-on of the Lone Star State for the past 20 years, and I cannot recall that any man by the name of William Pettus Hobby has been elected Governor of Texas during...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (TIME, May 18) came into legal being last week. Immediately Secretary Stimson appointed as director one of the most remarkable Texans in Washington: Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 37-year-old mother of two. Her rank corresponds to that of an Army major. Slim, trim, quiet and pretty, Mrs. Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas...