Word: peek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were trying to sell Moline plows. One piece of advice that seemed to crop up wherever Mr. Roosevelt turned was that as Secretary of Agriculture he should get Henry Agard Wallace...
...Manhattan, another ex-G-Man, Tom Tracy, declared in the Daily News: "Because of our moral aloofness to the great international pastime of snoop-look-and-listen, America has become just one vast peek-easy...
...Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare last week gave M. P.s a realistic peek at Armageddon, described the extensive preparations being made for air attacks on London, expected to be a main objective of enemy bombers. Trenches to provide shelter for 1,500,000 people will be dug in London's parks, declared Sir Samuel, and a ring of hospital tents set up outside the city. Oxford and Cambridge universities will be turned into clearing stations for casualties. Some 30,000,000 sandbags, ready to be filled, have been stacked away in warehouses and 275,000,000 more...
...magazines: Esquire, Ballyhoo, Film Fun, Peek, See, Sex Guide, Sheer Folly and 97 others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
After a flying visit and a peek behind the strict censorship, tightened when Vargas took over absolute power with a new constitution two months ago (TIME, Nov. 22), Author Davis reported: "The present regime in Brazil is the stark, unabashed personal dictatorship by Getulio Vargas, the President. . . . The secret of his power is in the manipulation of army officers. . . . As long as he can control a majority of the army he is safe. He also tries to secure the backing of business and has now the support of the majority, who are willing to tolerate almost anyone, provided profits continue...