Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull can shape these vague suggestions into a concrete program is a great question mark, but they exactly suit his temperament. No New Dealer, yet loyal to the New Deal, he held his peace during all the New Deal experiments, even bided his time while Raymond Moley and George Peek had their hour...
...Mississippi Valley isn't "backwoods." Neither is the famous, fertile Red River Valley. Neither is the rich, agricultural section of North Texas. (I'm attaching a map showing this country. You oughta read up about us. You'd get a different picture.) Something else. Take a peek at the bond market. L. & A. bonds look all right, don't they? Try our annual statement for last year! We're doing better than some who ain't "backwoods," ain't we? (Labor wasn't starved to get where we are either. Look into...
...days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother had been in Port of Spain on a cruise 32 years before...
...Tariff benefits on export crops. Any student of U. S. farm legislation could quickly recognize these principles as the basis of Peek's 15 years of agricultural agitation, as the basis of the McNary-Haugen bill he instigated and lobbied through Congress to be twice vetoed by President Coolidge. In 1932, said Mr. Peek last week, he rushed to the Roosevelt bandwagon because these same principles were stated in the Democratic platform and reiterated by Nominee Roosevelt in campaign speeches. "I was fooled by President Roosevelt's promises; I believe that Governor Landon is the kind...
...desertion of the Democratic Party and for denouncing President Roosevelt, George Peek received a quick rebuke from his former partner Hugh Johnson. The crusty old cavalryman and columnist, who, like Peek, left the New Deal after bickering with Braintrusters, stepped up to a microphone in Philadelphia two evenings later, declared President Roosevelt had broken no agricultural promises, declared Peek's attack "the most unfair yet launched at the President...