Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unto the Least of These. This week, with faith and patience, the army still marched on. In New York, Chicago, Peoria, San Francisco, Omaha, Richmond, Los Angeles-all over the U.S. and half around the world-tambourines rattled and brass bells tinkled in the annual Christmas campaign. Americans dropped pennies, nickels and dimes by the millions into Salvation Army kettles. The money would be used to buy 300,000 Christmas dinners for the down & out, 450,000 presents for children, packages for the aged, the poor in hospitals, and the inmates of jails...
...Peoria, Ill. VICTOR STERNFIELD
...piece band had made a big hit with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every man in the band...
...reading of Lincoln's reply to Douglas, at Peoria on Oct. 16, 1854, reveals that the truth-loving, morality-conscious Great Emancipator expressed a materially different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot...
...Boss in Peoria. But big Cat hit its fastest pace after 1941, when Louis Bontz Neumiller stepped into its $75,000-a-year presidency. Unlike Earthworm's whip-cracking President Gilbert Henderson, Neumiller is a surprisingly mild-looking, soft-spoken man-a moderator more than a boss. As his friend Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after...