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President Roosevelt has a squabble on band in the official family. Instead of a revolt by the brain trust against Mr. Roosevelt, the truth is serious differences of opinion have arisen between George N. Peek, of the A.A.A., and Assistant Secretary Tugwell of the Department of Agriculture, which have resulted in some plain speaking on the part of all concerned...
...Peek was given the job of running the agricultural adjustment administration in compliance with the wishes of Congress and he has come to the conclusion that the law can be administered best if he is left alone and is not interfered with by members of the Brain trust, notably Assistant Secretary Tugwell and Jerome Frank, General Counsel...
...Seats. Not just to praise his NRA but also to explain his colleague George Peek's collateral AAA and to hold the farm vote for next autumn's Congressional elections, came General Johnson. Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota control 107 seats in the House of Representatives, 78 of which are now Democratic. Loss of many of these seats to the Republicans might deeply cut the Democratic house majority of 183, seriously hamper President Roosevelt's program...
...Hull's patience is again under heavy pressure. While the Recovery program hoists tariffs and embargoes, he is to be shipped to South America to try to make trade treaties. Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins keeps her department serene but Agriculture under Secretary Wallace and his colleague AAAdministrator Peek is restive. So are the Interior and Public Works offices under Mr. Ickes, sweating to put Federal billions to work. There are many cross-assignments, touching the Treasury's work. A switch of last week in the Home Loan Bank Board, stepping Vice Chairman John H. Fahey...
...front of the White House one afternoon last week, five worried Governors unloaded themselves from automobiles and posed for newscameras with Secretary Wallace of Agriculture and Director George Peek of AAA. Then Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, the group's spokesman, with a sporty blue shirt, blue tie, grey suit and slicked-back hair, led them in to see the President. His jaunty step belied the deep concern he felt. South Dakota's Tom Berry, a broad-brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait...