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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Green Light for Truckers | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: We Choose to Run | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...professor is a native of Mattoon, Illinois. He received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University. The University has awarded him two degrees, an A.M. in 1935 and a PhD. in 1938. From 1936 to 1941 he was an instructor in the Physics, Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorship in Physics Goes to Edward Purcell | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...Work. In Mattoon, 111., Elizabeth Corley added up two years of U.S.O. work, found that she had made 80,724 cookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Habit. In Mattoon, 111., Golfer John W. Preihs, who had made a hole-in-one in 925 and saved the lucky ball ever since, was forced by the current shortage to take it out and use it again, promptly made another hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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