Harold Ickes

(noun)

A United States administrator and politician serving as United States Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and the second longest serving Cabinet member in U.S. history. He was responsible for implementing much of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. 

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Examples of Harold Ickes in the following topics:

  • Reaction to the Holocaust

    • In November 1938, two weeks after Reichskristallnacht, United States Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
    • That summer Ickes had toured Alaska and met with local officials to discuss improving the local economy and bolstering security in a territory viewed as vulnerable to Japanese attack.
    • Ickes thought European Jews might be the solution.
    • In his proposal, Ickes pointed out that 200 families from the dustbowl had settled in Alaska's Matanuska Valley.
    • Discuss the relative failure of the Evian Conference, the Bermuda Conferences, and Ickes' Alaska plan in finding a solution to the high number of Jewish refugees during World War II.

  • The Last of the New Deal Reforms

    • Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, attacked automaker Henry Ford, steelmaker Tom Girdler, and the superrich "Sixty Families" who supposedly comprised "the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States."
    • Ickes warned that they would create "big-business Fascist America—an enslaved America."

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    • With the help of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, also anti-segregationist, she arranged for Anderson to sing on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial.

  • Relief and Conservation Programs

    • Headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
    • Ickes, the PWA spent over $6 billion on 34,599 projects.

  • Neglected Americans and the New Deal

    • ., Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior who battled segregation in the areas under his control, was earlier the president of the Chicago NAACP).

  • Sicily and Italy

    • The British General Sir Harold Alexander acted as his second in command and as the Land Forces/Army Group commander.
    • The Allied invasion of mainland Italy occurred on September 3, 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group.

  • Cinema

    • The period saw the emergence of box office stars, many of whom are still household names, such as Mae Murray, Ramón Novarro, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Warner Baxter, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Dorothy Mackaill, Mary Astor, Nancy Carroll, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Haines, Conrad Nagel, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Dolores del Río, Norma Talmadge, Colleen Moore, Nita Naldi, John Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong, and Al Jolson.

  • The Holocaust

    • Among those pictured are Tomasz Szwarz; Alicja Gruenbaum; Solomon Rozalin; Gita Sztrauss; Wiera Sadler; Marta Wiess; Boro Eksztein; Josef Rozenwaser; Rafael Szlezinger; Gabriel Nejman; Adek Apfelbaum; Hillik (later Harold) Apfelbaum; Mark Berkowitz (a twin); Pesa Balter; Rut Muszkies (later Webber); Miriam Friedman; and twins Miriam Mozes and Eva Mozes wearing knitted hats.

  • Escaping Hard Times

    • One of the most popular radio shows for young children in the 1930s was Little Orphan Annie, based on a newspaper cartoon strip created by Harold Gray that first appeared in the New York Daily News in 1924.