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Last week while the President waited for Congress to start its tariff battle, he went ahead with his other foreign trade plans. George N. Peek, who got out of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration because he felt that the U. S. farmer would be the loser by Brain Truster Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other...
...year in office, from acting on what has for decades been a prime tenet of his party-revision of Republican tariffs. Last week he finally got down to the problem of devising a tariff and foreign trade program for his Administration. To his office he called George N. Peek, once head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Secretaries Hull, Wallace and Roper; Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of U. S. Tariff Commission, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of State Sayre, Harry F. Payer, foreign trade adviser to RFC, Stanley Reid, RFC counsel...
Upshot of the meeting was 1) a decision to inaugurate two more Government banks to finance foreign trade, like the Export-Import Bank formed last month to facilitate trade with Russia. Mr. Peek -who had brought to the meeting a man-sized plan for the creation of a Foreign Trade Administration-accepted the presidency of the three banks. 2) A tariff message from the President is expected to be sent to Congress this week...
...This includes both exports and imports. But the development of foreign trade cannot be accomplished in the present state of world currency troubles and tariff restrictions unless there is a consolidation of export and import business under government financing. Hence an export bank has been set up under George Peek, and President Roosevelt has asked Congress for power negotiate reciprocal tariffs...
...intermission, play second fiddle in the orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went home, wrote "Venus, My Shining Star," sold it for $25. He still thinks it is his best song, not excepting "Harrigan" (1907), "Mary's a Grand Old Name" (1905), "Give My Regards to Broadway...