Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since a great and ruthless effort will now be made to maintain the value of the ruble in Russia at 20?,* the State further decreed last week: 1) that all "Torgsin Stores'' which have sold goods in Russia for foreign currency exclusively are abolished as of Dec. 15; 2) that all foreign tourists, who have hitherto been discouraged by every means from the use of rubles (for fear they might have got them at "black bourse" rates), are from now on compelled to make all purchases in Russia with rubles bought at the State Bank...
...very much that it is necessary to express an opinion about a man in his position. He is obviously a man of the greatest business ability and acumen. . . . For him there is obviously only one thing that matters-the Chrysler Corp. Where other interests are concerned, he can be ruthless and unscrupulous. This case shows without question that he has not hesitated to lie in what he considers to be the interests of the corporation. Some of his evidence was frankly reconstructed. I am satisfied there were times when he was saying what he knew to be untrue. . . . Continually...
CONRAD AIKEN'S new book is a terrifying psychological study of Jasper Ammen, an egocentric, ruthless character, who plans to commit murder simply to expand his great self-satisfaction. Ammen has heard somewhere the name "King Coffin." His desire is to fuse himself with that symbol, to become the awful, mystic figure of King Coffin himself...
...battle plane experts who have enabled China to create at Nanchang one of the great air bases of the Far East, climate or no climate. In Colonel Jouett's Aviation School near Hangchow over 200 definitely top-notch Chinese fighting flyers were developed by intensive training and ruthless examinations which made enemies of many a Chinese general and politico whose air-ambitious son was flunked out. This year when Colonel Jouett's contract expired, Generalissimo Chiang declined to renew it, has now turned his air force over to native officials and Italian experts under Rome's suave...
...Touch of Brimstone (by Leonora Kaghan & Anita Philips; John Golden producer) is a genuine three-dimensional portrait of a complete, ruthless egotist. Mark Faber (Roland Young) got into show business simply to make a fortune. To him the theatre is just one more racket he can beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty...