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...term would be a handsome Bible. The dismissal bell was still resounding when a self-assured little girl came forward from her desk, and in a firm, quiet voice told the teacher she might as well go right ahead and inscribe the Bible. It ought to be inscribed to Oveta Culp. Pig-tailed Oveta Culp wasn't being brash or smart-alecky ; she knew she was the best speller, and was merely stating what she regarded as inevitable. At term's end, Oveta won the Bible...
Washington's vast Federal Security Building. "Office of the Secretary," it read, in shiny new gilt letters. Beyond the door, in a mulberry-and-cream office, Oveta Culp Hobby, the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was beginning the biggest spelldown of her career. She looked small and feminine behind her broad mahogany desk, but she moved with the poise and confidence of a successful business executive, as she checked "yes" and "no" on a long list of requests for appointments and telephone priorities. Now & then she paused reflectively and puffed on a Parliament, then...
...Passed and sent to the Senate (where quick approval is expected) the joint resolution to raise Oveta Gulp Hobby's Federal Security Agency to Cabinet rank...
...approval of a new Cabinet post for the Government's welfare functions. Last week President Eisenhower made his try, asked Congress to let him convert the vast Federal Security Agency (37,000 employees) into the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. His plan would make Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby his tenth Cabinet member...
...press conference, the President's remarks were brisk and pointed. The Russian situation, he confessed, was still too murky for comment. He would be sending to Congress his first reorganization plan and would recommend Cabinet status for Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby. He was pleased with the decontrolled price situation...