Word: mattoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GLEASON MATTOON Assistant Editor Horticulture Magazine Boston
...curb overloaded interstate trucks on its highways the state of Illinois decided on drastic measures: habitual offenders would be barred from the state for one year. But when Hayes Freight Lines of Mattoon, Ill. was barred after 157 overweight violations, Hayes fought the suspension, carried the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week the court cleared Hayes, thereby delivered a crippling blow to the authority of states to police their highways...
...only man in U.S. history who has ever run for the presidency six times, Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 65, was beginning to think it was no use. Furthermore, he thought his party ought to give up presidential campaigns too. Last week his proposal, made at the Socialists' biennial convention in Detroit, almost split the party in twain. Elder Statesman Thomas urged that the party spend its few dollars on other groups which had Socialist aims (e.g., labor unions, Americans for Democratic Action) and on local elections and membership campaigns...