Trade Policy Shuffle Moves Peek to White House Post
President Roosevelt approves George Peek as special assistant to head a temporary interdepartmental committee on American trade policy. The panel will coordinate internal production with foreign purchases under reciprocal tariffs and other arrangements, aiming to modify most favored nation treaties and potentially ease liquor imports from compliant nations.
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Norge Fpeer
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace Hid Bis
Tugwell
Roosevelt
Peek
Ife
Agreck
White House
George Peek
Havlng
AAA
Elena
Peek Hag Long
Gift of an electric train sparks thoughts on progress
Harold is gifted an elaborate electric train set from Uncle Dan on Christmas. The family gathers to set it up as Harold marvels at the engineering and speed. Dan and Harold reflect on progress, invention, and honoring past generations who contributed to modern comfort.
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Widow Sider’s
Bob Miles
Mary Cayron
Mary
Arold
Tian
Harold
Ile
Docle Dan
Elarold
George
Uncle Dan
Tarolé
Dan
Bey
Caryl
Newapa
Sallie Blake and the twenty trees of Christmas hope
In a gray sea-side cottage, Sallie Blake believes Santa will bring a cart and tiny doll house. On Christmas morning twenty small spruce trees, each bearing a gift, stand at the hedged yard, as neighbors secretly fill the house with stockings of cheer.
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Biy
Satie
Santa
Sallie
Custon
Slamma
Sable
Salle
New AAA Administrative Shuffle Cited in Crop Control Dispute
Hester Davis is named to replace Mrs. Peek as administrator of the AAA and has led the crop control section. The article notes close ties and a split with Secretary Wallace and Assistant Secretary Tugwell over prosecution pace, defending Mr. Peek’s role in advancing plans for wheat cotton hogs tobacco and other commodities.
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Hester Davis
Peek
AAA
Wallace
Tugwell
Mr. Peek
Feck
Dir. Peck
Farm Bureau delegates Back Roosevelt Relief Plans at Chicago Meet
Agricultural leaders from across the country convened in Chicago for the American Farm Bureau federation annual convention to back the presidents farm relief policies. Edward A. O Nea l called the federal farm adjustment act the Magna Charta of agriculture and argued farmers will gain a fair share of the consumer dollar through the AAA. Roosevelt sent a hopeful letter read to delegates praising federation support and noting initial effects of federal money reaching those in need while urging caution against fueling farm price rises.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
Federation
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Roosevelt
New York State Farm Bureau
Educational program aims at 300000 civil conservation corps men
Robert Fochner announces a presidentially approved education plan for 300000 civilian conservation corps members. Educational advisers数 1403 will be placed in forest camps with individualized instruction, drawn from lists of unemployed teachers via Dr George F Zook. Participation is voluntary and will use off hours without reducing 40 hour forestry work weeks.
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Robert Fochner
Civilian Conservation Corps
George F. Zook
Fechner
Reed Remarries During Kansas City Game Dinner
James A Reed aged seventy two, longtime Missouri senator, hosted twenty guests for a game dinner in Kansas City and wed Mrs Nell Q Donnelly, a wealthy garment maker and longtime political ally. Donnelly had been kidnapped two years earlier, Reed helped capture the kidnappers, and Donnelly later divorced. Reed's first wife died in October 1932.
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James A. Reed
Senate
Kansas City
Nell Q. Donnelly
Donnelly
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