U.S. SECRETARY OF HEALTH
Mrs Luce May Replace Mrs Hobby
(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 26. The New York “Daily News” ’reported today that Mrs Clare Boothe Luce, the United States Ambassador to Italy, would be offered the Cabinet post of Secretary of Health, now held by Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby. The newspaper said in a Washington despatch that Mrs Luce would
fly to Washington froih Italy this week-ejld and was expected to accept the post after a brief holiday. Mrs Hobby has been criticised for her department’s handling of the Federal anti-poliomyelitis vaccine programme.
President Eisenhower said last week that she might resign because of the illness of her husband, with whom she is co-owner of the “Houston Post.”
Mrs Luce, wife of Mr Henry Luce, editor-in-chief of Time-Life Incorporated, is a former Republican member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut. Mrs Hobby is a Democrat.
The “Daily News” said that m spite of Mr Eisenhower’s public defence of Mrs Hobby’s* handling of the poliomyelitis programme, he war privately “highly annoyed” with it.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27669, 27 May 1955, Page 13
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