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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...
...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...
...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...