Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Mary Scott, fourth daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, will be announced as soon as a decent interval has succeeded the official termination of mourning for Queen Alexandra, which occurred late in the week. Meanwhile Lady Mary and her royal "fiancé by acclamation" were subjected to the usual ruthless publicity...
Meagre French-censored despatches carried no mention of the reaction produced upon the Druses by these terms. The Druses have long feared and hated the French, and were especially bitter against M. de Jouvenel's predecessor, the ruthless General Sarrail...
...Agrarian majority party by a coup d' état (TIME, June 18, 1923) and began their reign of terror by allegedly causing the assassination of the Agrarian Premier Stambuliski (TIME, June 25, 1923) numerous foreign observers have characterized the regime of Premier Tsankov "the worst and most ruthless Government in Europe...
...upon the events of last week as a victory for "Little Tsar Boris" and his father, that arch plotter, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand (TIME, Nov. 16). It was felt to be obvious that M. Liaptcheff, a greying political veteran of three score, will prove more easily manageable than the ruthless arch individualist, Tsankov...
Last week these two ruthless autocrats terminated the farce that Greece is a republic. They tendered a gala banquet to military and naval men at Athens. Amid the popping of champagne corks, Premier Pangalos arose and proclaimed himself the head of an absolute dictatorship over Greece: "Henceforth, with the help of the Army and Navy, I will govern as dictator. Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, and the strongest army in the Balkans...