Word: cutthroat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...consider two bills: 1) one sponsored by Oklahoma's young middle-roader Mike Monroney, 2) one sponsored by Pennsylvania's youngish conservative Francis Walter. The Monroney bill is Arnold's baby, would specifically permit prosecution of labor racketeers, would let the Justice Department move in on cutthroat jurisdictional strikes, would outlaw many a nefarious-but-usual labor practice. The Walter bill, even tougher, would permit injunction suits by any person "affected, injured, or threatened with injury" by objectionable union practices...
...arms to Soviet Russia, California's irreconcilable Isolationist, old (74) Senator Hiram Johnson, shouted in a throbbing voice: "I will not subscribe to the doctrine that you must be a Stalinite to be an American. . . . Good God! Did we ever sink so low before as to choose one cutthroat out of two? This man was Hitler's ally. . . . Now we furnish him with weapons which may be turned upon...
Perched insecurely on the edge of Europe, little Portugal has only two white chips to back her hand in the big international cutthroat game. One is her carefully preserved neutrality, the other her possession of the highly strategic Azores. Last week the world could see how cannily she was hoarding them...
...power quietly expired at its two-year term, he had used it to shift only a few bureaus and make a few more jobs. Neither a key organization nor a key man had come out of the multiplication of agencies. No one had yet grown up out of the cutthroat tangle of confusion as had Bernard Baruch in World...
...believes that trusts are an inevitable sign of industry's maturity: their historical justification is their efficiency. He makes no attempt to sidestep or deny Standard's unfair, savage throat-cutting in its efforts to trustify. But he sees such practices as part of an unfair, savage, cutthroat period in U. S. business, a period that Rockefeller by his vast unification did more than anyone else...