Word: leclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating his 65th birthday, Harold LeClair lakes, Secretary of the Interior and one of the hardest-working men in Washington, declared: "If a man worked hard at it he couldn't get a bigger list of enemies than...
...officials announced that "Honest" Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
This speculation is contained in a slender, thoughtfully written book full of charts and tables, published this week and called The Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported...
...John Ickes, 65, elder brother to Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes, was reinstated in his Chicago municipal clerkship from which he had been ousted for "political reasons" seven years earlier. In short order Mr. Ickes sued the city for $51,462 back salary and interest. The case was declared a mistrial. Last week, with the approval of both Mr. Ickes and city officials, an appropriation of $15,000 was written into the 1939 city budget, to settle with Mr. Ickes...
...Washington. Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes ordered underlings to do something about roadside signs which read, "Slow Men Working...