Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal staff were sworn in. Two hours later, Ike walked over to a more elaborate ceremony in the great East Room of the White House. There, before full-length portraits of George & Martha Washington, Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in the members of the Cabinet-plus Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby and minus unconfirmed Erwin Wilson. A Cabinet member's commission must be signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was sworn first, and his commission was countersigned by interim Secretary H. Freeman Matthews. Thereafter, Dulles countersigned...
...York Dress Institute's annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women was increased to twelve this year, because heavy balloting for two newcomers resulted in a tie for eleventh place. The newcomers: Mamie Eisenhower and Oveta Gulp Hobby, recently appointed boss of the Federal Security Agency in the Eisenhower Cabinet. No. 1 on the list for the tenth year: the Duchess of Windsor...
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...
...poised and handsome 47, with a flair for wearing clothes and a brisk, 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...
...only: "I'm in favor of people having security and I hope I can help." One Washington big shot tried his hand at a capsule characterization last week by comparing Mrs. Hobby to the Truman Administration's No. 1 woman executive, Anna Rosenberg. "Where Anna is earthy, Oveta is aristocratic; where Anna is agitated and hell bent for infighting, Oveta is cool and superior; where Anna sparkles and jangles with brain work, Oveta maintains authority simply by acting as if it were her right...