Ickes

[ ik-eez ]

noun

1. Har·old (Le Claire) [har, -, uh, ld l, uh, , klair], 1874–1952, U.S. lawyer and statesman.

Example Sentences

One of the two aides who served in FDR’s Cabinet for all 12 of his years in office, Harold Ickes, was a Republican.

From Los Angeles Times

“If this decision does not outrage the moral sense of the country, then nothing will,” FDR’s Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, wrote in his diary.

From Los Angeles Times

After Interior Secretary Harold Ickes imposed a truce between the two states, the guardsmen returned home from the war zone to be hailed as “conquering heroes.”

From Los Angeles Times

“A man stung by the presidential bee contracts an incurable disease that only embalming fluid can cure,” FDR adviser Harold Ickes said of New York Gov. Thomas Dewey in 1949.

From Washington Post

Seymour soon paid 35 cents for a small silver notebook that he sent around the U.S., obtaining the autographs of figures like Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York and Harold Ickes, the secretary of the interior.

From New York Times