Ickes
Americannoun
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“If this decision does not outrage the moral sense of the country, then nothing will,” FDR’s Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, wrote in his diary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
“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
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes appeared on the speaker’s platform.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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