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...Peoria, rebellious Republicans upset a party convention slate by nominating Red ("The Galloping Ghost") Grange (Illinois, ex-'25) for trustee of the University of Illinois...
Safe Deposit. In Peoria, Ill., at the depth of the coal strike, truckmen delivering a load of precious coal to the William H. Friedrick house aimed at what they thought was the cellar chute, learned too late that they had dumped it all into an abandoned cistern...
Bradley University (undergraduate enrollment: 3,341) of Peoria, Ill. has capitalized handsomely on a beguiling fact of modern athletics: a small school with old-time amateur spirit and a few basketballs can get famous as fast as a big, rich school with an expensive stadium and a whole carload of money-hungry football beeves. When Bradley basketballers ended their season by polishing off Drake University 92-63 last week, they had proved themselves the class of the Missouri Valley Conference, and one of the hottest teams in the nation...
...make foreign aid sound like a local assistance program. "The next time a smooth gentleman tells you we are pouring money down a rathole," he said, "ask him whether he means the money which has gone to Illinois factories or farms." Argued Lucas: the Marshall Plan brought Moline, Peoria and Chicago nearly $50 million in orders in the first nine months of the plan alone...
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...