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...Newshawk John L. Spivak set out last year to peek under the lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
...repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days...
...Violet, after smashing one man with a water bottle, goes off with a fisherman. Plump Daughter Clarice, starving to be a tap dancer, succumbs naturally to a German carpenter and a mess of pork chops. And only after a sailor has left her with a baby does Daughter Ruby peek into her parents' bedroom, find that her mother was fooling all the time...
...onetime NRAdministrator makes no secret of his conviction that President Roosevelt once had two superb aides, both of whom were "kicked in the slats." They were Hugh Samuel Johnson and his good friend & onetime partner in the plow business. George Nelson Peek. Presumably Franklin Roosevelt, if reelected, will amend his errors, set up a brand-new administration...
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace: The farm problem ... is a business problem . . . The man of business who had given the most of study, effort and sacrifice to it in this country was George Peek. . . . For twelve years he led that long fight [for farm relief] to eventual victory in the Roosevelt election. During that time, the ruminating Henry Wallace was little more sure of exactly where he stood than he is today. He muffed supporting the cause at all for many, many years. He began by teaming up with Peek, but ditched him-or got the President to ditch him -when...