Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of them did I peek...
...Iowa farm, Chester Davis has spent his entire adult life thinking about farmers, first as an editor of a farm paper, then as organizer of Montana's State Department of Agriculture, later as grain-marketing director of the Illinois Agricultural Association, finally winding up in the George Peek-Henry Wallace group of professional farm-aiders. An able administrator, a persuasive negotiator, he has kept his old friendships through all the convulsions that have rocked the Department of Agriculture in the past three years...
...sympathies gravitated toward his deposed predecessor, Mr. Peek, however, and a few months ago President Roosevelt bundled him off to Europe to inspect foreign farm conditions. It was after that trip that Mr. Davis made the curious suggestion that one good way to promote foreign farm markets was to withhold exports of U. S. automobiles from countries which did not buy U. S. wheat, cotton, pork, etc. Lately Mr. Davis has often been reported on the verge of resignation from the Department of Agriculture. That might have had political repercussion among farmers, who like Mr. Davis and would naturally conclude...
...Newshawk John L. Spivak set out last year to peek under the lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
...repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days...