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.

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.

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.

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.

Society membership reached over 4, 000 in 1940, and included US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

** Ickes was Secretary of the Interior during the New Deal.

" 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.

* Harold L. Ickes: United States Secretary of the Interior

* Harold L. Ickes ( 1874 – 1952 ), U. S. Secretary of the Interior in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration

* Harold M. Ickes ( born 1939 ), son of the U. S. Interior Secretary, deputy White House Chief of Staff during the administration of U. S. President Bill Clinton

Upon the promotion of Ickes to Interior Secretary in 1933, Insull had a powerful foe in the Roosevelt administration.

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.

Along with Basil A. Paterson, the former New York Secretary of State, State Senator, and the New York City Deputy Mayor for Labor Relations and Personnel, Mr. Ickes co-chairs the firm ’ s extensive labor practice, providing counsel to dozens of local and international unions in the health care, transportation, package delivery, hotel, construction, communications, distribution, manufacturing, retail food, and other industries in the private and public sectors.

In 1933, Weaver worked as an aide to United States Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

The troops were recalled when Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes halted construction until the issue had been settled.

* Easter Sunday – Marian Anderson performs on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. at the instigation of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes after the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR ) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall and the federally controlled District of Columbia Board of Education declined a request to use the auditorium of a white public high school.

However, in 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes ( a Winnetka resident ), announced a Public Works Administration program to " prime the pump " of the American economy.

During the brief Mexican venture Fosdick's report to the Secretary recommended a definite stand by the War Department against the saloon and the excesses of prostitution.

LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama was made Secretary of War, after being recommended for this post by Clement Clay and William Yancey ( both of whom declined to accept cabinet positions themselves ).

The Assistant Chief of Staff ( G1 ) ( BG Hilldring ), in a response to the QMG on April 3, 1942, indicated the Secretary of War approved the design recommended by the QMG.

The Court initially consisted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the League of Nations to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who would put them before the Council and Assembly for election.

Nimitz immediately understood the potential of nuclear propulsion and recommended the project to the Secretary of the Navy, John L. Sullivan, whose endorsement to build the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ), later caused Rickover to state that Sullivan was " the true father of the Nuclear Navy.

The newly appointed United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson pushed the Netherlands government into negotiations earlier recommended by the United Nations but until then defied by the Netherlands.

Assistant Secretary of State Roger Hilsman recommended that if the generals decide to exile Diệm, he should also be sent outside Southeast Asia.

After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett ; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara.

The cabinet recommended the use of force, except for Secretary of State Edmund Randolph, who urged reconciliation.

As a result, the Secretary of War, Emmanuel Shinwell, recommended to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin that the prosecutions should not proceed.

With the US entry into World War I, Wood was recommended by Republicans, in particular Henry Cabot Lodge, to be the U. S. field commander ; however, War Secretary Newton Baker instead appointed John J. Pershing, amid much controversy.

The post of Secretary at War became available when Benjamin Lincoln resigned in November 1783, and Lincoln had recommended Knox to follow him.

Following the tour, Minto recommended Thomas Shaughnessy, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to the government at Westminster, via the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for a knighthood, as recognition for his service to the Duke and Duchess of York.

The appointment was recommended by then United States Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who had worked with Martineau in the Mississippi flood.

Butler's exploits impressed then Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recommended the award based upon Butler's performance during the engagement in which all 200 Cacos were killed.

Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, recommended the issuance of six such coins in 1791, in a report to Congress.

On September 24, Manor recommended approval of the October window to US Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, with October 21 as the primary execution date.

The existence of the NRO was declassified on September 18, 1992, by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, as recommended by the Director of Central Intelligence.

He recommended its use to Sir Anthony Eden, the Secretary of State for War during his visit to the Middle East, in late 1940.

Secretary Welles recommended that Wilkes had been too old to receive the rank of commodore under the act then governing promotions.

In 1938, the Report of the Departmental Committee on Scottish Administration recommended that certain departments be merged, and in 1939 the Scottish Education Department, Department of Health for Scotland, Department of Agriculture for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland and the Prisons Department for Scotland were abolished as separate departments, and instead became departments of the Secretary of State ( in practice, the Scottish Office ).

On 23 January 1987, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended to the Secretary of Defense that USREDCOM be disestablished to provide billets and facilities for USSOCOM.

On May 13, 2005, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recommended closing the Onizuka Air Force Station in Sunnyvale as part of a fifth round of military base closures and re-sizing.