Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Wallace and the President have had many long consultations about how to patch up the differences. These were not altogether personal either, for Mr. Tugwell represents one school of thought and Mr. Peek quite another. The latter, by the way, got his experience in the agricultural implement business and Mr. Tugwell has been Professor of Economics in Columbia...
Originally it was believed that the codes that referred to agricultural products could be handled apart from the NRA. General Hugh Johnson and George Peek are old friends. It was assumed there would be harmony on general principles. But Mr. Peek found considerable interference from Mr. Tugwell...
...member of the "Brain Trust" in question. Mr. Moley finally was transferred to another department and then resigned. Mr. Tugwell has been mentioned as possibly being useful in another part of the government, but there is no need of change now that the codes which he and Mr. Peek quarreled about have been transferred to Mr. Johnson's bailiwick by executive order...
...that Mr. Peek will join Mr. Johnson. Anyway it has been demonstrated that practical business folks and the "Brain Trust" do not harmonize very well and that Mr. Roosevelt will have to find some better way of keeping his official family in peaceful cooperation in the future if he expects to retain both kinds of advisers...
Many of the published versions of the Tugwell-Peek row indicated that the "Brain Trust" was on the point of revolt. The opposite has been true. The administrators and government officials who are out of sympathy with the "Brain Trust's" usurpation of power and authority were the rebels...