Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, fresh out of officer school, they began their careers in the women's army. There were some 670 other women in officer school at the same time. The nine swam to the top, became lieutenant colonels and the ranking WACs, topped only by their boss, Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, WACommander, was a patient in the Army's huge Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio. Pending a complete medical checkup, her ailment was diagnosed as "exhaustion...
...members of the Women's Army Corps are proud of our leader, Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, and grateful for the privilege to work with our men in the Army of the U.S. as soldiers to help in the best way we can to help win this war quickly. We are ashamed of the women of America who refuse to help...
...studied law, got her de gree from the University of Texas, became parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature and wrote a book on parliamentary law. At 22, Oveta codified Texas' banking laws. At 24, she ran for the State Legislature and was beaten - the first setback in a face-ever-forward career...
Lawyer Gulp's Little Girl. People in Houston observed that even if Oveta Gulp Hobby had started as a private she would have soon become the colonel anyhow...