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...Nominated Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, multimillionaire charitarian and coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, as Under Secretary (at $17,500 a year) to Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby...
...learned appeals judges quoted Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche and Rousseau on the inequality of the sexes. When Maria's lawyer (a woman) cited such examples of U.S. stateswomen as Health, Education & Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, one judge replied: "The capacity and intelligence of Mrs. Luce do not apply to the case of a Brazilian woman." In the end, the judges denied Maria Sandra's appeal. But friends in Parliament were trying to push through bills to admit women to the foreign service. The Foreign Office recommended to President Getulio Vargas that...
...another part of the hemisphere, at another time, it could have been Evita instead of Oveta...
...Incidentally, Texans don't agree with your contention that Oveta's appointment was a ... plum for the Texas people. Mrs. Hobby's appointment is a plum for Mrs. Hobby...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby is that new type of Southerner who does something concrete about adjusting relations between whites and Negroes...