Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the...
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