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Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes pressured Director Robert Fechner to appoint prominent African-Americans to supervisory positions such as education directors in the 143 segregated camps.
By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.
The Public Works Administration ( PWA ), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.
Frances Perkins had first suggested a federally financed public works program, and the idea received considerable support from Harold L. Ickes, James Farley, and Henry Wallace.
Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal.
* Watkins, T. H. Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874 – 1952.
* Ickes, Harold L. Back to Work: The Story of PWA ( 1935 )
Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933 under Hugh Hammond Bennett.
President Roosevelt and Walter White, then-executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Anderson's manager, impresario Sol Hurok, persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
On March 15, 1874 Harold L. Ickes was born in Frankstown Township.
* Howard Ferguson, III, campaign chief-( Harold Ickes, Jr .)
Around 1935, Postmaster Farley removed sheets of the National Parks set from stock before they had been gummed or perforated, giving these and unfinished examples of ten other issues to President Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes ( also a philatelist ) as curiosities for their collections.
Then United States Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes fought to create the Kings Canyon National Park.
Along with Chicago lawyer Harold L. Ickes, he launched a campaign against public utility tycoon Samuel Insull's stock market manipulations.
After Roosevelt's victory in the election, Douglas, at the recommendation of his friend Harold Ickes, was appointed to serve on the Consumers ' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration.
He took the title of the latter from a speech by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes: " Our ancestors did not fight for the right of a few Lords of the Press to have almost exclusive control of and censorship over the dissemination of news and ideas.
Most construction was carried out by private contractors under federal contracts under an authorization by Harold L. Ickes in his role as federal public works administrator.
Society membership reached over 4, 000 in 1940, and included US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.
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The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes, Vol 1.
" Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior in the late 1930s, said there was a violation of the Raker Act, but he and the city reached a final solution in 1945.
In his diary entry for April 30, 1936, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes recounted how Zioncheck had asked him to officiate in a marriage with his fiancee, Miss Nix.
She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.
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In Illinois, Insull had long battled with Harold L. Ickes over concerns that Insull was exploiting his customers.
The bill was passed by Congress and signed by President Roosevelt, but Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes refused to construct the pipeline because of the opposition by Big Oil.
He is the son of Harold L. Ickes, who was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Secretary Ickes recommended to President Franklin Roosevelt that the Antiquities Act, which permitted Presidents to set aside land for protection without the approval of Congress, be used to establish a National Monument in Jackson Hole.
The cautious and penurious Ickes won out over the more imaginative Hugh S. Johnson as chief of public works administration.
Mary Ickes Watson, his wife, had feigned illness during a dinner party involving the Rayner and Ickes families so that she could have unfettered access to Rayner's bedroom.

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At a contentious meeting of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC, on May 31, 2008, Ickes voted in favor of a compromise resolution to allow the Florida delegation to be seated with each delegate having one half vote giving presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton ( NY ) 105 pledged delegates ( 52. 5 votes ), candidate Sen. Barack Obama ( IL ) 67 delegates ( 33. 5 votes ), and former Sen. John Edwards ( NC ) 13 delegates ( 6. 5 votes ); and against a resolution proposed by the Michigan Democratic Party to seat the Michigan delegation with 69 delegates ( 34. 5 votes ) pledged to Sen. Clinton and 59 delegates ( 29. 5 votes ) for Sen. Obama ( IL ) at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO, in August, 2008.
According to a ledger entry made by Clinton ’ s assistant, Harold Ickes, Wong pledged at that time to donate US $ 100, 000 to the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ).
Caribou Primitive Area received greater protection in 1939, when Interior Secretary Harold Ickes sought to convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combine the national forests and the National Park Service into a new agency under the management of the United States Department of Interior.

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* Jones, E. E., McGillis, Daniel, " Correspondence Inferences and the Attribution Cube: A Comparative Reappraisal ," in John H. Harvey, William J. Ickes, and Robert F. Kidd, ed., New Directions in Attribution Research, Vol.
" This motion will hijack – hijack – remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton ," Ickes said in opposing the Michigan motion.

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* Harvey, J., Ickes, W., & Kidd, R., " A conversation with Edward E. Jones and Harold H. Kelley ", In J. Harvey, W. Ickes, and R. Kidd ( Eds.
Harold M. Ickes, is currently Co-Chair of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P. C .’ s Labor and Government Relations practice groups, also manages the firm ’ s Washington, D. C. office.

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