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...polls in a Democratic worker's car, Mrs. Edward Steele of Peoria, 111. changed her mind, told the driver to go to the hospital instead. There she gave birth to a boy, named him Franklin Delano Steele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Sidelights | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...train took him south through Illinois, criss-crossing the meandering route of Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace. Joliet, Morris, Ottawa, LaSalle, Peoria. Local politicians climbed aboard, appeared beside him on the rear platform. The crowds that gathered to see & hear numbered in thousands. If they did not rock with enthusiasm, they listened carefully to Willkie's fervent voice. He did not spare himself. His voice began to croak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: While London Burned | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Without these air-inflated cognomens, Jim and Marion Jordan might now be back in Peoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...they live on a Peoria scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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