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Near San Vittore, 19 Germans held one U.S. prisoner, Billy Miller from Peoria, Ill. The 21-year-old doughboy (in civilian life a doughroller) made the Germans believe that they were surrounded, brought one Nazi lieutenant, 18 men, seven automatics, nine binoculars, one machine pistol back to the U.S. lines...
Federal Union in Peoria...
...days," your report says, "in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed...
Democratic discussion may seem inept and dreamy, but what counts are the results achieved in the end. Certainly those achieved at Peoria encourage faith in the democratic system for which Federal Union stands...
...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...