Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike, he momentarily expected "liquidation" after the Nazis came into power...
...ruthless royal dictator of great charm, who knew how to keep democratic Frenchmen and Britons cheering for him, was King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). Since his death, Yugoslavia has followed an exactly opposite foreign policy of courting the favor of authoritarian states -while not actually flouting France or Britain. Last week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich was so pleased with the way his country's foreign policy was shaping that he crowed in Parliament...
...Force was still Mme Chiang Kaishek, or whether the job had passed to her brother, T. V. Soong, or whether- according to the last of three equally flat and contradictory Chinese announcements -the new Chief is anti-Communist General Chien Ta-chun. Reds call him "Bloody Chien" for his ruthless suppression of the 1928 Communist uprising at Canton and the 1929-30 Communist uprisings at Changsha...
...brought back from his conference with Herr Hitler very good news for Austrian Jews, Austrian Catholics and all 100% Austrians. After all, Hitler was born an Austrian, is an Austrian blood & bone. Since the Austrians are easygoing, fun-loving people, and Hitler knows it, it seemed likely that a ruthless, violent Prussian-style Nazification might not be forced on Adolf Hitler's native people...
...years since then, Field's has been completely reforged in the crucible of McKinsey theory. It is once more substantially in the black. But the process involved as ruthless a purge as anyone short of Stalin has ever produced and Field's employes have found their jobs both less serene and less secure. Last week, however, it appeared that the quiet days of yore have returned. For after the sudden death of Chairman McKinsey, Marshall Field directors decided not to appoint another rude outsider as chairman but to return to the time when the company...