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...announced that its loans for crop production and harvesting had passed the $200,000,000 mark, of which $50,000,000 had been repaid. This machinery, taxed to capacity, was now to be extended still further. Into the White House marched Secretary Wallace and Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Nelson Peek, who is to one-half the U. S. people what NRAdministrator Johnson is to the other. When they emerged, Administrator Peek held the brand to light a mighty defensive blaze...
...Peek of Polo. Milo Reno, who hates Secretary Wallace as one of the fathers of the AAA, has high regard for AAA's Administrator George Nelson Peek. "He's the squarest shooter in the Agriculture Department," says Mr. Reno. "Milo Reno," Administrator Peek replies, "is a very sincere fellow. As to his objectives, we all think the same as he does, but as to his methods, I think there is room for great difference of opinion...
Agricultural Adjustment Administrator Peek, who is responsible for the Food & Grocery Wholesale & Retail Trades Code, was also alarmed. Retail price-fixing would make it more difficult for him to bring farm prices up to parity with manufactured goods. Though the Food Code went into hearings last week with a price-fixing clause-a 10% mark-up like the Retail Code but split 2?% to the wholesaler and 7?% to the retailer-few observers believed that it would get by Mr. Peek...
Thus it appeared that the retail and drug codes would go to President Roosevelt with the price-fixing sections intact, but Washington believed that he would await the findings of A. A. A.'s Peek on the Food Code before he made them the law of the land. Meanwhile NRA rushed to nearly every U. S. industry and to all magazines and newspapers, sample advertising copy to start its consumer campaign with the slogan: NOW IS THE TIME...
Died. Frank William Peek Jr., 51, chief engineer of General Electric Co.'s Pittsfield, Mass, plant, pioneer developer of artificial lightning which he used to gauge the effect of real lightning on power lines; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; near Gascones, Canada...