Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sternly, Ike said he would not waste his time on the Morse attack, but would be glad to give an opinion about his Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Despite some feeling among White House aides that Oveta Hobby's handling of the polio vaccine problem has been less than inspired, Ike gave her a clean bill. Secretary Hobby, he said, is "merely the agent of these great scientists and doctors." It was their testing procedures that were in question, he indicated, and it was their decision to hold up vaccine distribution...
Health Secretary Oveta Hobby added another reason, in the most foolish statement yet made about the situation: "No one could have foreseen the public demand for the vaccine...
...safe and that the real problem was to get enough of it to the right places at the right time. Thus the question of controls loomed larger than that of the vaccine's overall safety. Members of Congress drafted bills providing for compulsory federal controls. But Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby's advisory committee on vaccine distribution adopted a report urging only voluntary controls, relying on "health patriotism." It became increasingly clear that no one in Washington, even in Mrs. Hobby's department, had given any serious thought to the situation before April 12, when the results...
...want a women's corps right away and I don't want any excuses!' " The bill creating the WAAC was passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed hat proved unreasonably difficult to photograph...
Tight Control? While the foundation was busy with its needles, U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby belatedly gathered 100 experts in Washington for a conference on allocation of vaccine and enforcement of any controls that might be ordered. Represented were her own department, the National Foundation, state and county health officers and medical societies, and the six firms licensed to manufacture the vaccine. Conference chairman was Dr. Chester Keefer, top medical aide in HEW. Assorted politicians, some labor unions and newspapers were clamoring for rigid federal centre's. But the conferees had been warned in advance...