Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extravert" classifications, Switzerland's great Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung last week branched out into psychopolitical analysis, announced in London: "I have just come from America, where I saw Roosevelt. Make no mistake, he is a force-a man of superior and impenetrable mind, but perfectly ruthless, a highly versatile mind which you cannot foresee. He has the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely...
British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
...state of disruption, with internal strife, including Communist and bandit activities, engaging the wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly beaten 300,000 Chinese soldiers, had approached within five miles of Peiping, and had, by a ruthless stratagem, made Chinese pride grovel in the thick dust of the little town of Tangku...
...chaos, came order". It may sound like Professor Merriman in one of his more expansive moments, but today its application is to the Houses' rather than Europe's history. For years the Houses have been taxing each other's resources by policies of ruthless competition, culminating last year in a grand debacle, with Houses sponsoring dances with "big name" orchestras cheek by jowl with one another undercutting freely, and using high-pressure advertising tactics...
When zealous henchmen were surpassing themselves in obeying Joseph Stalin's orders to collectivize the Russian peasantry by any ruthless means, he brought them up short with his famed statement in the Soviet press in March 1930 entitled "Dizzy From Success." This has since become a method by which the Dictator enables others to bear the blame for his total or partial failures. Last week Stalin was in the sunny Caucasus and rumors that he is suffering from hardening of the cardiac artery were reported in several European newspapers. Meanwhile his Russian henchmen were again definitely "Dizzy From Success...