Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate-and lost. The two women who have come closer to the White House than any of their sisters-by reaching Cabinet level-have adorned TIME covers: the Democratic Secretary of Labor, Miss Frances Perkins (Aug. 14. 1933) and the Republican Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...Houston Post, edited by former (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, declared early (as it did in 1952 and 1956) for the Republican candidate...
...South's most sensitive issue, the race problem, neither paper has shown any inclination to copy the Press's boldness. The Chronicle generally temporizes, the Post-run by onetime WAC commander Oveta Gulp Hobby-usually maintains editorial silence. This month, when Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the city's laggard school board to step up the rate of public-school integration, only the Chronicle and the Press editorialized on his decision. The Chronicle was mild and vague: "It is hoped that all citizens will cooperate." The Press said: "Judge Connally's order...
...still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Henry Ford II. Before the show's sponsors were finished, they had gathered the works of 45 artists, including 17 De Chiricos and no fewer than 18 Modiglianis...
...journalism school. The young man is, in fact, William Pettus Hobby Jr., 28, who last week was named managing editor of the powerful Houston Post, which is owned and run by his parents, Texas' former Governor William P. Hobby, 82, the Post's ailing board chairman, and Oveta Culp Hobby, 55, first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Post's president and editor...