George Peek at Home and Abroad.

Before the World War George N. Peek was a live, aggressive manufacturer of agricultural implements, a thorn in the flesh of Alexander Legge of the International Harvester Co. U.S. financier and statesman Bernard Baruch, with his uncanny instinct for key men, summoned both Peek and Legge to Washington just when their concerns were in a position to make mountains of money. They came regretfully, rather resentfully, somewhat suspicious of each other; but Baruch was implacable. They signed up for the duration of the war at a dollar a year which they never got. Promptly they became fast friends, among the tireless hawks engaged in chasing profiteers into their holes.