Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House defeat of the President's request for a $25 million reinsurance fund to back up non-Government health insurance plans, e.g., Blue Cross and similar organizations. This was an important item: a week before the bill reached the House, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby, after being introduced by the President, plugged it in a nationwide broadcast from the White House. G.O.P. leaders had expected the bill to pass easily. But when the votes were counted, 162 Democrats, 75 Republicans and Ohio's Independent Frazier Reams had joined in recommitting...
...Oveta Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare . . . LL.D...
Also receiving honorary doctorates of Law, in addition to Pusey and Griswold, will be Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University, and Wesley A. Sturges, Dean of Yale Law School...
Last week the U.S. took a big step toward that fuller control. On Cincinnati's outskirts, Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby dedicated a six-story laboratory building for the U.S. Public Health Service, gave it the mouthfilling name of Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center. Said Mrs. Hobby: "Sanitary engineering had its origins in [man's] first crude efforts to gather and store rainwater for drinking purposes and to dispose of wastes effectively." It is still concerned with the same problems, though in different forms...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Roswell Burchard ("Roddy") Perkins, 27, the youngest presidential appointee of the Eisenhower Administration. Perkins, who went to Washington from New York last fall as an adviser on social security matters to HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, was spotted for a comer on his record in the 1952 campaign when he headed "Youth for Eisenhower" in four eastern states. At Harvard (Class of '47) "Roddy" Perkins played end on the football team, later edited the Harvard Law Review. He wrote in his class book: "I look upon the future with considerable optimism...