PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement w

Ask expansion of RFC lending power. Washington, D.C., March 29. Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes (left) and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones (center) both appeared before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee today to urge expansion of the RFC lending powers in order to remove the present limit of $20

Ickes denies wire tapping by his investigators. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. Secretary of the Interior Ickes denied before the Senate Public Lands Committee that this department investigators had tapped telephone wires of any Senator or Representative. Ickes, testifying on behalf of Ebert K. Burlew, n

Ickes urges government control of oil. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes commended to a House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee today the Cole Petroleum Conservation Bill as a means to avert breakdown of state oil control before such an event occurs. The Cole Bill would au

C.I.O. leader endorses recovery program. Washington, D.C., May 2. John L. Lewis, Head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, today told the House Appropriations sub-committee that he was "wholeheartedly in support" of President Roosevelts program. He urged that arrangements be made to provide

Ickes confers with Senators on Nat. Aud. Washington D.C. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes aAppeared before the Senate Public Buildings and Ground Committee today where Ickes presented a general plan for the new proposed National Auditorium so that there will not be a reccurance of the wet Inag

Ickes asks for full control of Bonneville Dan project. Washington, D.C., July 18. In an appearance before the House Rivers and Harbors Committee today, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes asked congress to give him full control over the Bonneville Dam project in Oregon. He said he favored a bill intr

Takes oath as first Assistant Interior Secretary. Washington, D.C., April 8. His nomination finally approved by the Senate after three month's consideration of his fitness for the post, Ebert K. Burlew was today sworn in as first Assistant Secretary of Interior to succeed the late Theodore A. Walter

Low rent housing may be expanded. Washington, D.C., April 11. A White House conference with officials of Government Housing today brought a suggestion that the Low Rent, Housing and Slum Clearance Program may be expanded, the conferences discussed what they characterized as the "General Program" pre