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Brave in ceremonial beads, buckskin, war bonnets and ermine tails, six elder statesmen of Montana's Flathead Indian tribe ranged themselves one day last week behind the polished Washington desk of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes. It was a great & grave occasion- the signing of the first tribal constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (TIME, June 25, 1934). Secretary Ickes and Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian...
...unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama Canal, the President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins. Messrs. Ickes & Hopkins have for months been scrapping like a pair of tomcats over projects for which Federal relief money should or should not be spent (TIME, April 8, et seq.). As to why the President wanted these belligerents along on the section...
Died. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, 62, wife of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; when an automobile in which she was riding overturned; near Santa...
North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan...
Maryland's lean, long-armed, young Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, volunteered the opinion that the testimony showed nothing to reflect on Judge Wilson, but "it may reflect on some other people." At that Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes, superior and champion of Governor Pearson, blew up. At a press conference he stormed that "the hearing ought to bring forth just a few facts," raged that Judge Wilson was "bringing the administration of American justice into disrepute in the Islands'' and ought to be removed for "judicial misconduct." Then...