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...reporter followed him to the Hotel Station where Peek's Bad Boy was cating with unidentified friends. "Mr. Farley--what are you going to do in Boston...
Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...
...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...