Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist tocsin when the American Historical Association's Social Studies Commission finally announced its conclusions last week. Since January, when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government. Down, cried the Commission, with pedagogy and its vast jerry-built structure of normal...
...Manhattan's Washington Market unemployed artists found a vacant meat stall, started an art sale. When market patrons showed interest only in one drawing, a nudist colony at play, the artists veiled the picture, sold peeps at a penny apiece. Market Director Aloysius Mallo appeared, took one perquisite peek popped: "Put that away or I'll put you out. That's too hot for my customers, I'll tell the world...
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...
...Administration did not want to lose the support of a man who has so wide a following among farmers, and Mr. Peek insisted on authority to put his own plans for expanding markets into effect. He not only was given the job of heading the three banks, but retained as the President's "adviser on foreign trade." Having got these concessions, he issued a tripartite manifesto on his personal plans...
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...