Word: leclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and his bride were having fun in Alaska, 2 of his kin were having fun at the 11th annual reunion of the Clan Ickes at Ickesberg, Pa. Sister Julia came on from Altoona. Distant Cousin Bill, a $1,300 clerk in Cousin Harold's PWA, and Third Cousin Patrick, a $1,620 clerk in his National Park Service, came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling...
...Greatest fanfare about new Lending & Spending came from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (PWA), with a fresh $965,000,000 to allocate. Into his offices with his bride marched the newlywed PWAdministrator and Secretary of the Interior, beaming Harold LeClair Ickes.* Out of his offices soon issued five fat volumes listing 1,432 projects which PWA would start at once. For these, PWA was supplying $17,862,500 in loans, $157,332,741 in grants. Another $175,195,241 was to come from the projects' promoters-so that much more would rain down, in addition...
...pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named it "Anna W. Ickes" for his wife...
...lean, long-legged, new President James Bryant Conant, recipient this season of seven honorary degrees. Two strides behind was Amateur Hull, with five degrees. A brilliant finishing sprint put Tyler Dennett, president-elect of Williams, in a triple tie for third place with Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and Princeton's new President Harold Wrillis Dodds, each with four degrees...
...resolved that we, the Henry J. LeClair Post No. 13 American Legion, department of New Hampshire, do heartily denounce the attitude of this paper, and demand that the editors of said publication fully retract the unjust statements, and further demand an apology to the American Legion...