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Another appointment of near-Cabinet rank helped repay Ike's political debts to two important groups of supporters: 1) the women; 2) Southern Democrats for Ike. For Federal Security Administrator he picked Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby, editor and executive vice president of the Houston Post, head of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, who announced for Ike four months before the political conventions, published a "political primer" which was instrumental in getting pro-Eisenhower Texans into the G.O.P. precinct conventions last spring. During the campaign, she headed the national Democrats-for-Eisenhower movement...
...month got cut off entirely from the Post. The censors, who had no precedent to go by, stopped his mailed columns, and the Army took a dim view of a soldier's holding an outside job. It ordered him to quit writing. Not until Post Publisher Oveta Gulp Hobby, World War II commander of the WACs, intervened with old Army friends in Washington did Reed get permission to resume...
...aimed at the various Houston neighborhoods covered by the Citizen. The Chronicle's new weekly sections, each with a staff of its own, were the Jones answer to the circulation and advertising inroads made by McCarthy and by Scripps-Howard's Press (circ. 114,346) and Oveta Culp Hobby's Post (circ. 170,000). Glenn professed no surprise at the Chronicle move, said Jones had tried to buy the Citizen from him months...
...Senator Earle C. Clements ofKentucky also announced for a man from his own state: Alben Barkley. CJ Oveta Gulp Hobby, former chief of the WACs, now publisher of the Houston Post, announced that she likes...