Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after making plows for 23 years for Deere & Co., George Nelson Peek became president of Moline Plow Co. at $100,000 a year, made General Hugh Johnson his chief counsel. As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, he naturally became deeply interested in farm problems. As a politician, he began agitating for an export subsidy for the U. S. farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned...
Speaking on a Republican National Committee radio broadcast, Plowman Peek declared he had decided to support Nominee Landon because "the Republican platform promises three things of paramount importance to agriculture...
...starting line had cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could sprint only about the last 70 metres and weren't prepared when I started my run. I think I could have sustained it for another 100 metres if necessary. ... I was a bit wound up, wasn...
...Topeka for a three-hour talk with the Republican nominee on farm and foreign trade policies went that voluble New Deal outcast, onetime AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek. Revealing that the Republican platform embraced most of the farm and trade views which he had submitted in pre-Convention memoranda to both Republicans and Democrats, George Peek declared of Alf Landon: "He seems to have a good deal of understanding of these problems, but I intend to take no position until after he has declared his views specifically in his speeches...
Jumping into their cars, myriads of Dionne fans streaked for Callander, Ontario, last week, entered it beneath a triumphal arch, read strange signs, nosed around in vain for a peek at Joseph Robert Telesphore Dionne...