Word: peeked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Nominee Smith returned from an ocean bath on Long Island, he breakfasted with Mr. Peek. After breakfast Nominee Smith said he was more than ever satisfied with the Democratic plank on agriculture. Forthwith, Mr. Peek declared himself a Smith man. The press headlined: "G. O. P. Farm Chief Goes Over to Smith...
Then the New York World published an editorial. It said that, evidently, Nominee Smith regarded the principle of McNary-Haugenism as a good thing, but that the plan of it was bad. Nominee Smith approved the World's interpretation. Mr. Peek, now a Smith man, said nothing. Chairman Raskob announced the formation of a committee to supervise a strenuous fight for Corn Belt votes. It was also announced that the Democrats were in a better position to win one or more of the 13 Midwestern farm states. The Republicans announced that they were not worried...
...paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...
That Frank O. Lowden, whom Mr. Peek backed strenuously but ineffectively for the Republican Presidential nomination, would bolt to Nominee Smith has been the wish-fathered hope of disgruntled farmers and opportunistic Democrats. They know that Mr. Lowden, farmer's advocate, is disgusted with the Republican farm plank and have pestered him for an insurgent declaration. Last week he was persuaded to speak at his summer home on one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, but all he said was: "I will wholeheartedly cooperate with the next President of the U.S., whoever he may be, provided...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...