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Lorena Hickok

Alice Lorena Hickok (1893–1968)


Notes to expand:

February 1934, Time article on her.

FERA reports

did  publicity for 1939 New York World's Fair

executive secretary of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in February 1940

Works by Lorena Hickok

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According Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_Hickok) and several other articles, she worked for, or had stories published in the following:

  • Minneapolis Tribune
  • Associated Press (AP)
  • The Battle Creek Evening News, Battle Creek Journal
  • Milwaukee Sentinel
  • Milwaukee Journal
  • Minneapolis Tribune
  • New York Daily Mirror
  • New York Times

Books

Search WorldCat for additional books by her.

Her personal papers were willed to the FDR Presidential Library.

Articles

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Other Institutions

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