Word: peek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that its loans for crop production and harvesting had passed the $200,000,000 mark, of which $50,000,000 had been repaid. This machinery, taxed to capacity, was now to be extended still further. Into the White House marched Secretary Wallace and Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Nelson Peek, who is to one-half the U. S. people what NRAdministrator Johnson is to the other. When they emerged, Administrator Peek held the brand to light a mighty defensive blaze...
...Peek of Polo. Milo Reno, who hates Secretary Wallace as one of the fathers of the AAA, has high regard for AAA's Administrator George Nelson Peek. "He's the squarest shooter in the Agriculture Department," says Mr. Reno. "Milo Reno," Administrator Peek replies, "is a very sincere fellow. As to his objectives, we all think the same as he does, but as to his methods, I think there is room for great difference of opinion...
With both Reno and Wallace, George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm...
When the U. S. entered the War, Peek was abroad helping the French Government amass military materials, a job for which his 23 years with Deere & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, prepared him. Alexander Legge of International Harvester called his competitor home to sit on the War Industries Board. Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the Council of National Defense and the Board's biographer, has described Peek as "impetuous, impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they...
...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...