Word: ruffianism
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...Procurer!" screamed Der Angriff, personal organ of Dr. Paul Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment for Germany's 66,000,000 people. "Jewish lout . . . inciter . . . chief master of gangsters [who] having bribed him . . . have become still more insolent in murdering, looting and in kidnapping children. ... A Jewish ruffian . . . [who indulged in] an orgy of insult before a thousand Jewish women whom he fetched in from the streets...
...King's friends have poisoned Kondylis, hurrah! hurrah!! HURRAH!!!" rejoiced the ruffians of Crete. Few if any Greeks above the ruffian class believed anything so unlikely and outrageous. It was convenient, though, for newly restored King George II that His Majesty's embittered opponent, the deposed Dictator of Greece, Field Marshal George Kondylis, had just died with extreme suddenness "of a heart attack." In Greece it was inevitable that a death so convenient should seem, ipso facto, another case of foul play. The Field Marshal was a ruthless man with many ruthless enemies...
...thing the Stavisky investigations have done is to uncover the hideous corruption of Marseilles' local politics. Ballot boxes are regularly stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and accused of complicity in the Dijon murder of Judge Albert Prince. Boss of Marseilles is a one-eyed Corsican Deputy named Simon Sabiani-just Simon to most of Marseilles...
Police arrested over 100 people, subdued many a polling booth ruffian. When the votes were counted, Camillien had been elected by a 36,000-vote plurality, and a 52,000 majority over his nearest opponent, the biggest ever seen in Montreal. His defeated Liberal opponent complained. "The Houdeist forces had prepared a widespread telegraphing [dummy-voting] and ballot-stuffing machine that worked to perfection. The old gang is back." Mayor-elect Houde's first move was to let it be known that he plans to form a new Conservative party of his own to be called the National Autonomist...
...voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than a second-rate live one. Of President Roosevelt he says: "[He] is no Cincinnatus; his manifest scheming for the job gives his measure." NRAdministrator Johnson he calls "that vulgar ruffian Johnson, Roosevelt's strong-arm man." He finds it "hard to imagine a more despicable institution than our press. ... All that makes me suspect there may be something in Technocracy is that the New York Times and Herald Tribune ridicule it. If they ignored it altogether, I would...