Typed Letter, signed “Harold L. Ickes” to Harry Barnard of Chicago, objecting to Barnard‘s preference for Carl Sandburg over Paul Douglas for the Senate
$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
One page on personal letterhead. Small pinholees in upper left corner, text unaffected. In brown cloth folder. Item #247372 Ickes 1874 -1952 , former Secretary of the Interior under FDR and briefly under Truman and the administrator of the Public Works Administration, grew up in Chicago himself, and after leaving the administration, remained active not only in nationa but in Illinois politics. Here, in a letter to the newspaper columnist
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