Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President gave the better part of a day to interviews with George Peek, Henry Wallace, Rexford Tugwell over dissensions in the Agricultural Recovery program...
Slap in Face. One afternoon a roomful of newshawks faced Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in his office with Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Peek stony-faced at his elbow. The Secretary explained that: 1) the production of corn and hogs must be cut because the export of pork had fallen off; 2) the packers would be handed a code which provided the Government access to their books, power to control their margin of profit; 3) the AAA's milk marketing agreements were unsatisfactory and would have to be revised to control dairy production...
...Peek said nothing. An oldtime Equalization Fee advocate, he had persistently argued that the solution of the farm problem lay not in a vicious thwarting of Nature but in increasing markets, in plugging world markets. He had opposed unduly rigid restrictions on packers and their profits. He had put through the "unsatisfactory" milk marketing agreements. To Mr. Peek the Secretary's remarks were a slap in the face, and though Mr. Wallace delivered the slap, the author of the slap was Braintruster Rexford G. Tugwell...
...Peek, like NRA's General Johnson with whom he was once a partner in the Moline Plow Co., is rated a "Baruch man." Ever since President Roosevelt gave him the AAA he has been fighting clear of the Braintrusters who stood close to Mr. Wallace in the Department of Agriculture-Assistant Secretary Tugwell, Columbia professor, and AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, disciple of Felix Frankfurter. They favored restricting production, holding down the profits of processors and distributors. Their aim was not just recovery for the farmers but a radical step: permanent "socialization" of the processing and distributing business. When they...
...lower millstone of business experience or practical cooperation with business and industry which is deemed essential to the forward progress of any economic reorganization that may be attempted. That's why the ingenious idea of removing the troublesome codes on agricultural by-products from the hands of both Mr. Peek and Mr. Tugwell is an indication of how important the President himself regards the smooth administration of the codes. The NRA itself is also adopting a somewhat more practical tone in its dealings with business. Much of this is due unquestionably to the rising tide of Congressional criticism, which means...