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...section has been used only three times. During the Reconstruction era, Ulysses S. Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops to arrest defiant Klansmen. In 1895 Grover Cleveland invoked the section to crush a strike against the Pullman Co. that had halted Midwestern railroad traffic. Four years ago, President Eisenhower used 333 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. Attorney General Kennedy might also have relied, for legal authority, on the Federal Government's undisputed right to maintain interstate commerce. "The entire strength of the nation," wrote the Supreme Court...
...fall and cannot be used for drinking water. Moreover, a city's river water may be hard (because of calcium and magnesium carbonates), and housewives want it soft for washing; so the engineers soften it, often by replacing the calcium with sodium. One eminent cardiologist at a Midwestern hospital was puzzled when his heart-failure patients suddenly got worse and proved harder to treat. The hospital engineer, without telling the medical staff, had decided to make the laundry workers happy by softening the water with a sodium salt...
...cover, but his is a name well known among gallerygoers. St. Louis-born, Jones hit the art world in the '30s as an angry proletarian painter with an oft-quoted ambition: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls." But even then he was also painting Midwestern wheatland themes, and he soon changed his politics, his subject matter and his style of painting. Then came the Joe Jones of the more familiar style-the linear clarity that has something of a Japanese feeling to it. Jones, a highly articulate fellow, says that he is "really interested...
...blunt but expressive Midwestern term," he said, "we must 'put our money where our mouth...
Other teams in the field are host Washington University, Valparaiso, DePaw, Wheaton, and Williams Jewell, all Midwestern schools...