Word: houston
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Another appointment of near-Cabinet rank helped repay Ike's political debts to two important groups of supporters: 1) the women; 2) Southern Democrats for Ike. For Federal Security Administrator he picked Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...
...aloof air of success, Oveta Hobby first took to politics at the age of ten when she began reading the Congressional Record aloud to her father, a lawyer and state legislator. At 20, she was parliamentarian for the Texas legislature, later went to work as a clerk on the Houston Post. She married its publisher, ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby (she was 26, he was 52) in 1931, soon became a power on the newspaper (this fall she formally became its editor & publisher). She has two children, William Pettus Jr., 20, and Jessica...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby, editor and executive vice president of the Houston Post, head of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, who announced for Ike four months before the political conventions, published a "political primer" which was instrumental in getting pro-Eisenhower Texans into the G.O.P. precinct conventions last spring. During the campaign, she headed the national Democrats-for-Eisenhower movement...
Today Evangelist Graham produces his own TV and radio shows (cost: $20,000 a week), is president and featured player of his own motion-picture company (it has made two movies-with-a-message), and leads month-long crusades in cities from coast to coast. (Last June 1, in Houston's Rice Stadium, Billy drew his alltime record crowd: 60,000.) For his considerable labors, Billy draws an annual salary of $15,000, plus professional expenses, as president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The association's funds come from the collection plates passed at Graham crusades...
While driving along the Fort WorthDallas highway 18 months ago, Houston Insurance Man Benjack Cage jammed on his brakes as he saw a crowd of workers swarm on to the highway from...