Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surely far better to allow the productive forces of capital and credit to create wealth and abundance and then, by corrective taxation of profits, meet the needs of the weak and poor! Instead, the Washington Administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States, with none of the perils and burdens of Europe upon it, is actually at the present moment leading the world back into the trough of depression...
Died. Erich Ludendorff, 72, Germany's ruthless, domineering Wartime Chief of Staff, after an operation for a bladder ailment; in Munich...
Meanwhile, around Nanking utterly raw, undrilled Chinese youths, most of whom scarcely knew how to use a rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the back those who broke and ran. Twelve miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns...
...bandying glib phrases and slogans like "rugged individualism" and "that government is best which governs least"; that we can no longer afford to allow symbols like the "totalitarian state" and "Fascist regimentation" to obscure the practical imperative need for the activity of the one agency that can cushion the ruthless forces of a dynamic world
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...