Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assistant Secretary Tugwell of the Agricultural Department, who in some respects is the leading exponent of industrial revolution, has so far injected his views into the policies involved in drafting and administering food codes that George N. Peek, agricultural adjustment administrator, rebelled and let it be known that he wouldn't stay any longer of the dispute were not settled at once...
President Roosevelt has a squabble on band in the official family. Instead of a revolt by the brain trust against Mr. Roosevelt, the truth is serious differences of opinion have arisen between George N. Peek, of the A.A.A., and Assistant Secretary Tugwell of the Department of Agriculture, which have resulted in some plain speaking on the part of all concerned...
...Peek was given the job of running the agricultural adjustment administration in compliance with the wishes of Congress and he has come to the conclusion that the law can be administered best if he is left alone and is not interfered with by members of the Brain trust, notably Assistant Secretary Tugwell and Jerome Frank, General Counsel...
...reliably reported that Mr. Peek served an ultimatum to the effect that unless Mr. Tugwell was taken out of the agricultural building he himself would resign. This may be an exaggeration, of course, of the way Mr. peek feels about it, but there is no doubt that friction has developed, and that Mr. Roosevelt has the task of bringing about harmony...
...published reports today stated that there was a controversy between the left and right wings of the Roosevelt administration, and while the is true to a certain extent, it does not describe the fundamental differences of approach and temperament involved it the Tugwell-Peek dispute. It is handly fair to say that there is a cleavage between conservatism and radicalism to the ranks of the Roosevelt administration. The President himself is still the arbiter of principles and polices, but the may also have to become an umpire a between personnel