Who is Oveta Culp Hobby?

Wilbert Shellgren: Wife of Governor Hobby, publisher of the Houston Post, president of the Texas League of Women Voters, Head of the WAAC's in WWII, first woman appointed to a cabinet post, bank chairman.If you do not consider the circumstances and attitudes of the times in your recommendation, you will not understand history. The WAAC's were not even considered part of the Army initially. The initial list of possible jobs for women was restricted to 54. The WAAC would not have been accepted, or even allowed to exist if their reputation had become one of a herd of "camp followers" (ie prostitutes)....Show more