Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
...Levy. And he was still more so when he volunteered his services to the New Deal "for the duration" (his words to Felix Frankfurter) in early 1933. By that fall, as counsel to AAA, he had led the revolt of consumer-minded, non-agrarian New Dealers that ousted George Peek. Less than two years later he was himself ousted in a similar revolt against the more durable Chester Davis. Rex Tugwell, his friend and sponsor, quickly got him placed in RFC. Thence he moved to PWA, for which he won the Alabama Power case against the late great Newton...
...sharp as his surgical knives. Doctor Manion was upset because for several days he had tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously had something big up his sleeve...
...decades ago Moline Plow Co. had two notable officers. One of them (president) was Farm Economist George Nelson Peek, who in early New Deal days became AAAdministrator, the other was Hugh Samuel Johnson (vice president), who became New Deal's NRAdministrator. Since 1929 Moline Plow Co. has been part of Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co. -which has a notable president...
...husky, smiling Warren Courtland Mac Farlane. In 1933, when Messrs. Peek and Johnson were sowing the seeds of the New Deal, the accident of Depression put Minneapolis-Moline $1,541,000 in the red and a motor accident broke President Mac Farlane's back. Two years later Minneapolis-Moline netted $170,000, and indomitable President Mac Farlane, in his wheel chair, flew 15,000 miles around South America drumming up business. In 1938 Minneapolis-Moline had a profit of $727,000, and President Mac Farlane was riding horses for amusement...