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).

  • The Norman Invasion of 1066 CE

    • Harold faced invasions by William, his own brother Tostig, and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada (Harold III of Norway).
    • The Normans crossed to England a few days after Harold's victory over the Norwegians, following the dispersal of Harold's naval force, and landed at Pevensey in Sussex on September 28.
    • Harold was forced to march south swiftly, gathering forces as he went.
    • William of Jumieges claimed that Harold was killed by William.
    • Harold is shown with an arrow to the eye.

  • Property Rights And Markets

    • A case of nonexclusive property rights occurs when Harold smokes a cigar in church.
    • If a voluntary contract is made, Harold is better off because he prefers the payment to smoking.
    • Aunt Mabel and the congregation are better off because they were willing to pay Harold not to smoke.
    • This assumes that Harold had a property right to smoke.
    • If Harold wanted to smoke, he would have to contract with the congregation for the right to do so.

  • The Bayeux Tapestry

    • Images in the cloth include depictions of William, Duke of Normandy; the coronation and death of the English King Harold; the Battle of Hastings; and even Halley's Comet.
    • The trees are not placed consistently, however, and the greatest scene shift (between Harold's audience with Edward after his return to England and Edward's burial scene) is not marked in any way at all.

  • Ethnomethodology

    • Ethnomethodology is an ethnographic approach to sociological inquiry introduced by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel.

  • Elements of Life

    • Miller and Harold C.