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Last week Secretary of Agriculture Wallace appointed to succeed George Nelson Peek as Agricultural Adjustment Administrator a short, nervous man named Chester Charles Davis, aged 46. Good friend of both Messrs. Peek and Wallace, Chester Davis has been in Washington since May when he was appointed to decide for John Farmer just how many hogs he may raise per annum. This he was able to do by virtue of long experience as a cowhand, hog raiser and wheat grower on his father's farm in Iowa...
...quit the publishing business to organize the State Department of Agriculture for Montana. Then the Illinois Agricultural Association plucked him out of Helena, made him director of grain marketing at Chicago. There he fell in with George Peek's theories of agricultural legislation and together they fought for the McNary-Haugen bill. When Mr. Peek, disgusted with the G. O. P.'s nomination of Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned Democrat, Chester Davis beamed. He was already vice chairman of the Smith Independent Organizations Committee, chief thumper for the Brown Derby among dirt farmers. After the Hoover landslide they...
This settled the result but not the quarrel. Next morning Messrs. Wallace and Tugwell rushed to the White House for a conference. When they left Mr. Peek arrived for lunch and a two-hour talk. Later Mr. Peek conferred with Mr. Wallace. Finally he rushed back to see the President...
...were "a better balanced income in order to give the farmers a fair share without doing injustice to the consumer. I think George and Rex see absolutely eye to eye on these objectives." Meanwhile, also, Braintrusters were intimating to the Press "off the record" that Mr. Peek had messed up the AAA. Mr. Peek was reported to have told friends that: 1) either he or Mr. Frank would have to go; 2) he would be ready to appear at any time Congress wanted to investigate the AAA, the last a threat which in view of his outspoken nature...
Pacification. The President, always calmly cheerful when confronted with such dissensions, found much difficulty in pacifying his followers. Since he was determined to back Mr. Wallace and Mr. Wallace was determined to back Messrs. Tugwell and Frank, the problem was to find a consolation prize for Mr. Peek. First suggestion was that he move over to a subordinate job in NRA. Then Mr. Tugwell suggested that he be made Minister to Czechoslovakia with a roving assignment as salesman for U. S. farm products in Europe. Both of these propositions Mr. Peek rejected. Then the President suggested he head...