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...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...
...Owned by William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Vice President, Cabinet officers and presidential assistants scrambled to Hagerty's rescue. Others stood by and offered suggestions, such as, "Take your pants off, Jim." Since Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby was on hand, Hagerty ignored the advice...
...Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby dedicated the $64 million Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., designed to bring research primarily in chronic diseases to the patient's bedside (TIME, July 2, 1951). It has 500 beds, 1,100 laboratory rooms. First patients, women with cervical cancer, were due this week...
...with pancake makeup. His big "cue cards," which had been brought in only after news photographers had been shooed out of the room, were ready before him. On his right sat Attorney General Herbert Brownell, on his left, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby. All but Humphrey, who wore a white shirt, were arrayed in shades of "television blue...