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3 unusual facts about Harold L. Ickes


Arthurdale, West Virginia

She intervened with Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and with others to ensure that the Arthurdale homes were built with modern necessities such as insulation and indoor plumbing.

Harold Ickes

Harold L. Ickes (1874–1952), U.S. Secretary of the Interior in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration

United States General Services Administration Building

Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, oversaw construction of dams, fully developed the National Park Service to provide recreational needs, and served as the first Federal Administrator of Public Works.


Everything I Long For

The song "Assignment in Space with Rip Foster" is an alternative title to the children's novel Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin.

Harold George

Harold L. George (1893–1986), USAAF Lieutenant General, Hughes Aircraft executive

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Harold Ickes

Harold M. Ickes (born 1939), son of the U.S. Interior Secretary, deputy White House Chief of Staff during the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton

Harold Ickes Homes

Named for a United States administrator and politician, Harold L. Ickes.

Harold L. Humes

It was there that he won his lifelong nickname, when his classmates dubbed him Doc after "Doc Huer", a brilliant scientist/nutty professor in Buck Rogers, a popular comic strip.

Harold L. Nieburg

He was considered an international expert on political conflict and the Cold War, and was a confidant of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Paul Simon.

Harold L. Runnels

Runnels attended Dallas public schools and Cameron State Agricultural College in Lawton, Oklahoma.

Runnels was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1971, until his death in New York City on August 5, 1980.

Russell E. Havenstrite

Harold L. Ickes (1874–1952), who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1933 to 1946, rejected Havenstrite's demands.


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