Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's harshest reform, the Public Utility Act ordered all utility holding companies to register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden use of mails or other facilities of interstate commerce. SEC would then have power to control their financial transactions and, under the famed "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system with only one intermediary company allowed between the top holding company and actual operating subsidiaries. When most of the utility business refused to register, SEC agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought a test...
...strongly against him (as with Magellan's execution of his Spanish captains and South American natives). Author Zweig asks the jury: "Is it not the eternal doom of man that his most memorable achievements should so often be stained with blood, and that those who are harshest are those who usually accomplish the greatest deeds...
Soviet newsorgans were crammed last week with a new scandal: the crimes committed by small Communist officials in carrying out locally the nationwide purge fathered by Joseph Stalin. Typical was the case of one Pavel P. Postishev, Communist leader in Kuybishev (formerly Samara). He was arraigned in the harshest terms by Pravda, "because he purged local Communists by tens and hundreds." Pravda added with frankness that Postishev committed such "excesses" in Kuybishev after he had been transferred thither from the Ukraine six months ago as "punishment for lack of political vigilance...
Wrote Columnist Shaw after Columnist Ford had chided him for having a great amount of billboard space and literature donated by friends: "Perhaps I do have more literature than you, more billboards, more radio time. Perhaps I have more friends." Columnist Ford had his harshest words with his fellow columnist when a batch of obviously faked circulars bearing a red hammer & sickle and purporting to be an official Communist endorsement of Candidate Ford were dropped on the city from an airplane...
...harshest blow at the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin thus far, Punch last fortnight cartooned the fact that the Prime Minister is supposed to favor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as his successor in a manner calculated to make squeamish Britons retch. With a beaming expression on his round face, Mr. Baldwin is shown thrusting the juicy mouthpiece of his famed old pipe under the beaknose of Mr. Chamberlain whose eyes bulge with revulsion...