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...weeks ago the same thing happened on a smaller scale in Providence and neighboring communities. The troublemaker in that situation was a small baker named Deschene who left a bucket of cream puff and éclair custard in the open where vermin could...
...thousand Floridians and visitors from the North repaired to a park on the shores of Lake Worth, between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. There they ranged themselves in specially-built boxes and bleachers around a huge central platform. On the platform bespectacled Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes squatted on his haunches in a circle of squatting Seminole Indians. Seminole squaws and papooses in bright beads and dresses were bunched around the platform. Loudspeakers allowed the spectators to overhear the powwow by which Secretary Ickes proposed to advance the Administration's policy of extending...
When Harold Le Clair Ickes took office as Secretary of the Interior, he quickly became one of the outstanding Cabinet heroes of the New Deal. He was honest. He worked hard. He refused to play peanut politics. He had billions of Federal dollars to spend. Yet last week Secretary Ickes was ruefully admitting that his popularity had vanished, that he was, in fact, one of the most thoroughly hated members of the Cabinet. Like everyone else, he knew the reasons...
Other groups that no longer consider Harold Le Clair Ickes one of the heroes of the New Deal...
Northwestern University (Evanston Ill.) President Arthur Cutts Willard of the University of Illinois.... LL.D. Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes.... LL.D...