Word: lincoln
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...chose to limit the use of military power when, after dispatching troops to quell the Whisky Rebellion of 1794, he ordered all insurgents to be turned over to civil rather than military courts for trial. But during the Civil War, as he struggled to hold the nation together, President Lincoln introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman...
...three R's, singly or in combination, have been shown to lift productivity in large companies such as General Motors, Texas Instruments and IBM, as well as medium-size firms. Little-known Lincoln Electric of Cleveland gives productivity bonuses that come close to equaling regular wages. One result is that productivity has risen so fast that since 1934 prices for Lincoln's products have increased only one-fifth as much as the consumer price index. Professor Grayson sees that as good proof of his thesis that higher productivity can whip inflation...
THOUGHTS WHILE WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO GROW SO I CAN TRY TO SHAVE: Freshman intramurals already underway. Yardling Bill Lincoln recently nailed down the men's singles title in the 1978 tennis classic, while Emily Skoler prevailed in the women's division. Lynn Rosenbaum and Tory Kiani copped the crown in mixed doubles. The tourney attracted over 100 entries...Finals of freshman basketball tourney slated for tomorrow at the IAB in a 7:30 tilt...Speaking of hoop, varsity hoop coach Frank McLaughlin hopes some lanky newcomers can fill the conter-forward void left by graduation. Six-foot, ten-inch...
...challenge to his leadership stunned the Shah and outraged his generals, who argued that the demonstrations were surely eroding his authority?and in turn the army's?and must be stopped. Declared an army officer: "We told the Shah, as Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand by itself." Said a general to the Shah: "It is against our military honor to stand the present situation." A lengthy late-night Cabinet meeting followed, and on the morning after, Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami proclaimed a curfew and martial law for six months. Not in a quarter-century had Tehran been...
...write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that wasn't bad," He skimmed off the fiction, and the result was Mr. Lincoln's Army, the first of his 13 elegiac, historical summaries that re-create the Civil War in a sweep of colorful detail. Catton also worked as senior editor of the hardbound American Heritage: The Magazine of History...