Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everett McKinley Dirksen, 47, a big, tousled, thoughtful, farm-minded Representative from Pekin, Ill., a town of 19,000 population which lies on the east bank of the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. The Pride of Pekin told the Washington press that 36 fellow Congressmen from 13 States had signed a petition urging him to try for the Republican Presidential nomination. He insisted that he was a serious candidate. He scorned any idea of acting as a "favorite son," which is the main strategy of the Pew-Hamilton "stop Willkie" campaign...
...railroad long before it slipped into receivership in 1923. Begun in the '70s by Minneapolitans eager to challenge Chicago's monopoly of Midwestern railroading, the line stretched itself into 1,690 miles of jerkwater track running north & south across Minnesota and Iowa, with branches to Peoria and Leola, S. Dak. It never got to St. Louis-and from the day its first track was laid, it was more often in than out of the courts. Its debt was too high, its farm traffic too meager and too seasonal. In the Midwest its sway-backed boxcars, rusty rails...
...default since 1922-and there was only $103,000 in the bank. He had to sell some of his battered boxcars for scrap to get enough cash to repair his rotten rails. But he got every discouraged M. & St. L. employe to help him sell people on "The Peoria Gateway," amazed potential customers by helping them sell their own goods and services too. Since then he has poured $20,000,000 back into new equipment, has located over 300 new industries to ship via M. & St. L., and has diversified its freight load over the seasons, so that its accountants...
Last Week Mrs. Sommer made the "Welcome to Peoria" speech and underwrote (at something over $2,500) the third annual convention of Clarence Streit's Federal Union, Inc. Four years ago, the "Union Now" idea had seemed dreamy and outrageously advanced. Last week in Illinois, traditional hotbed of U.S. isolationism, the idea still seemed dreamy, but now it was almost behind the times. Mrs Sommer Lad come a long way in postwar thinking-but so had the rest...
Warm Hearts. For two days, in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed and listened to worthy speeches by Representative Will Rogers Jr., ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Federal Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn...