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...Willys-Overland Co. took over Moline Plow Co., made George Peek president at $100,000 a year. President Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
...that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail branch of racketeering. "In some countries the orgies...
...serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander of the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio), to duty with the General Staff in Washington. Son of a Michigan governor, he has the bearing and manners of a country gentleman...
...Desportes, South Carolina State Senator, cousin of Bernard Mannes Baruch, to be Minister to Bolivia...
Happy at the big progress he had made last week General Johnson told newsmen that he had "enlisted" only for the emergency, hoped to finish plastering industry with Blue Eagles and retire by the middle of November to his old position as an associate of Bernard Baruch. "But," said General Johnson, "I'll be here until this job is done." Meanwhile he announced plans for giving the Blue Eagle claws by arousing public opinion: drives to sign up consumers all over the land; 1,500,000 volunteer workers; 100,000,000 "pieces of literature"; a big radio program with...