Ickes
Americannoun
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“A man stung by the presidential bee contracts an incurable disease that only embalming fluid can cure,” FDR adviser Harold Ickes said of New York Gov. Thomas Dewey in 1949.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
“I mean, we weren’t thinking about the country,” Harold Ickes, who worked for Kennedy, admitted in an interview.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2022
“The long-run impact may be more significant than the short-run impact,” said Barry Ickes, head of the economics department at Pennsylvania State University, who specializes in the Russian economy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
The approaches worked symbiotically: Hopkins provided sustenance for more than 20 million Americans, and Ickes bequeathed the country airports, bridges, school buildings and other edifices that still do service today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Interior Secretary Ickes stepped up to the bank of microphones.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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