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...lusty "natural appetites," and many Peorians saw no reason to ignore them. The town's distilleries turned the corn harvest into liquor, and Peoria's back streets were always comfortably shaded by brothels, gambling joints and saloons. When the river trade fell off and industry (Caterpillar Tractor, Hiram Walker, Keystone Steel & Wire) came in, Peoria went on being the biggest little wide open town in the Midwest...
Help from Republicans? As the top-ranking Republican members, Franklin Roosevelt did not pick, as he might have, the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee (Hiram Johnson), nor the titular leader of the party (Governor Dewey). He chose Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Commander Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, flag secretary to famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...
...Castle, Ind., Hiram Dickerson, 72, a cemetery caretaker, lay down to sleep, froze to death...
...Republican Congress they would become, respectively, Speaker of the House and chairman of the House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald P. Nye would head the powerful Appropriations Committee...
...last of five resignations takes place tomorrow when Robert S. Morison '30 resigns as assistant professor of Anatomy. Morison earned his M.D. here in 1935. Other resignations since July 31 have included those of Gordon M. Moe as associate in Pharmacology, Hiram H. Merrit as associate professor of Neurology, John T. Williams as assistant professor of Gynecology, and Anthony O. Dahl as faculty instructor in Biology and tutor in the Department of Biology...