Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, drafted by the White House in close cooperation with Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and her Department of Health. Education and Welfare, stressed nongovernmental and nonprofit health-insurance organizations, with voluntary membership. The President suggested a limited (initial capital: $25 million) federal reinsurance program to "encourage private and nonprofit health-insurance organizations to offer broader health protection to more families." Also recommended: intensified public-health research, a simpler formula for allocating grants-in-aid to the states, expanded vocational rehabilitation and hospital construction grants-in-aid programs...
...been at or near the head of every list for the last 15 years, slipped clear down to a tie for tenth place with Musicomedienne Mary Martin. Among the other ten best-dressers: Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of France's Ambassador to the U.S.; Princess Margaret, Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...court victory should provide some small comfort for Republican National Chairman Len Hall, who has the unhappy task of finding jobs for patronage-hungry Republicans. Last week Hall telephoned Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Hobby to ask: "Oveta, have you got a social-security program yet that will give a 53-year-old man $500 a week for the rest of his life...
...Among them: Chairman Frank Abrams of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, Navy Secretary Robert Anderson, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Governor James Byrnes, Oveta Culp Hobby, Paul Hoffman, John Roosevelt, Editor Ben Hibbs of the Saturday Evening Post, President Millicent Mclntosh of Barnard College, Edward R. Murrow, President Juan Trippe of Pan American, Thomas J. Watson Jr. of I.B.M...
...removal of Miss Jane Hoey as director of the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Miss Hoey's Bureau administers financial assistance to the blind, the needy aged, the totally and permanent disabled and to dependent children. The Secretary of her department, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, said Miss Hoey was fired not for incompetence (she had been in charge for eighteen years) but because the job was "a policy making position." It therefore has to be taken off civil service and given to a political appointee...