Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
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...