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...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...
...Sara Sommer is a handsome, substantial widow who owns a lush farm near Peoria. When she first heard of Clarence Streit's plan for lumping the world's democracies into a "Union Now," she said: "Oh, gee! Is that patriotic?" But once convinced that Goodman Streit was not advocating treason, she pitched in, contributing both money and quiet organizing work...
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...