Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valet was labeled "Peek." The damsel, who might have been either weeping or sleeping, was labeled "Farm Vote." The departing gallant wore a haughty "G. O. P." label. The dubious gallant bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nominee Smith, and to make certainty certain, Cartoonist Homer Speltz of the Gopher Prairie, Wha.,* Clarion had labeled the figure...
...Peek," of course, was George Nelson Peek, the Democrat-Republican from Illinois who used to make plows at Moline, Ill.; who served Woodrow Wilson on the War Industries Board; who became chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two organized several years ago by Governor Hammill (Republican) of Iowa† and other Farmers' Friends; and who lobbied the McNary-Haugen Bill (first version) through Congress from a desk in Vice President Dawes' ante-room...
After the second vetoing of the McNary-Haugen bill last spring, Mr. Peek threatened the Republican Party with dire happenings. Nothing happened. Then he went to Houston and had the satisfaction of seeing the controversial principle of McNary-Haugenism written into the Democratic platform. He visited Manhattan last week to learn how the Democrats proposed to elaborate their platform. He arrived with assurances, much like those he voiced prior to the G. O. P. convention, that the Farmer was angry at the G. O. P., that the Farm Problem could be solved by McNary-Haugenism and by nothing else...
Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
...Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. His method of transferring from the defunct Farm Revolt to the triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem...