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Hace 20 horas · Harold L. Ickes and Henry A. Wallace, two progressive Republicans, were selected for Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Agriculture, respectively. [146] In February 1933, Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara , who expressed a "hate for all rulers."
- Herbert H. Lehman
- Woodrow Wilson
Hace 5 días · Harold Ickes, manager of floor operations for Kennedy, used an obscure procedural rule to call a halt to the afternoon of floor proceedings — messing up the planned television schedule for the...
Hace 2 días · On April 29, 1939, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes announced that the Subtreasury would become a historic site. The building was designated as Federal Hall Memorial National Historic Site on May 26, 1939, and an information bureau opened on the rotunda floor, with exhibits related to finance and the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Hace 3 días · The next month, La Guardia met with PWA chair Harold L. Ickes and Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) chair Jesse H. Jones to convince them to help fund the tunnel because the project could now be completed within a year.
Nationally, former Agricultural Department Secretary Harold L. Ickes, a significant supporter of civil rights, would lambast anti-semites & nativists opposed to the movement such as President La Follette, former-President Charles Lindbergh, among others, stating; What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion.
Hace 4 días · Is statesmanship compatible with constitutional government? Scholars have posited the possibility of “constitutional statesmanship” in America but have done little to probe its historical reality or to evaluate its consequences. To illustrate some of the limits, possibilities, and ambivalences of constitutional statesmanship in practice, this article examines Franklin Roosevelt’s ...
Hace 3 días · FDR's positioning of himself as a non-partisan unifying figure made it easier for Republicans to cross party lines to support him. Several prominent former Bull Moose progressives, including Henry Wallace and Harold Ickes would make the migration, finding irony in shifting their loyalty from one Roosevelt to another.
