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Oveta

American  
[oh-vee-tuh] / oʊˈvi tə /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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A. Oveta Fuller, an infectious disease expert at the University of Michigan, questioned how well the government tracks adverse side effects, asking: “Can we feel confident that should something come up, it will be detected?”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2021

There wasn’t another female Cabinet member until 1953, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower named Oveta Culp Hobby secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2021

That same afternoon Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby announced amid great fanfare that the vaccine had been licensed.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

A House of Representatives committee said that it would look into the Administration’s handling of the program and safety; there were calls for Oveta Culp Hobby, the H.E.W. secretary, to resign.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2015

Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, was concerned with the attitude of Congress and the press.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.