Word: peek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring of agricultural philosophers who sit around Son Wallace's chair included year and a half ago George Peek (as AAAdministrator). But Mr. Peek departed after a difference of doctrine with Son Wallace's chief guide, philosopher & friend, Rexford Guy Tugwell. Today Undersecretary Tugwell. chiefly occupied with his part as director of national "resettlement" under the Works Relief Act, is not the foremost member of that philosophical ring. Chester C. Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those...
...counsel to AAA he was also a thorn in the paw of sturdy George Peek, his boss. Mr. Peek protested to Secretary Wallace. In vain, for Counsel Frank had Felix Frankfurter's approval and the support of Dr. Tugwell. So Mr. Peek, instead of using his legal counselor, hired his own lawyer out of his own pocket. But Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President...
...Peek's place, Chester C. Davis took charge of AAA. "Chet" Davis is not a man of Mr. Peek's sort, not a man of Mr. Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe...
...newshawk asked bluntly whether it was a fact that Mr. Wallace had sided with Frank to make Peek walk the plank, now sided with Davis to make Frank walk the plank...
...testimony when?Pop! President Roosevelt called in newshawks, announced that he had appointed Messrs. Baruch, Johnson, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Dern, Wallace, Swanson, Perkins, General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, Rail Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman and Foreign Trade Adviser George N. Peek to take the profit out of war. The announcement knocked the Senatorial inquisitors completely out of the spotlight...