Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realized that his ruthless, iron hand actually holds the present Spanish regime together. It is he who sees that all the elections and plebiscites come out right, that the sons of useful Jews are exempt from military service, that the Army does not sprout another successful coup...
...Ruthless at clapping alcoholics into asylums, bootleggers into jails, is knobby-fisted General Jalander, Prefect of the half-million Finns in Usimaa Department. Pale-nosed teetotalers received last week with mixed feelings one of His Excellency's pepperiest pronouncements...
Quinn has passed. In the decade or so of his incumbency he has became almost a tradition. But traditions have a ruthless way of disappearing amid the torch lights of the innovator, and the ex-Mayor, who tried so hard to hitch Harvard to his band-wagon, will be present only on the tire covers of a few autos until they also reach the discarded stage. Thus, as Cambridge becomes industrialized, does good fellowship give way to efficiency...
...Edouard. M. Herriot's luck had turned. He had lost in succession both his second Prime Ministry (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926) and the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. He was losing his grip on his party (Radical Socialist). Edouard Daladier saw his chance. With sly intrigue and ruthless, slashing, open vituperation he routed his patron at the Party Congress two years ago, seized the Presidency of the Radical Socialists for himself. After all there are some 20 party groups in France. Outside his own Edouard Daladier remained only a vaguely familiar name-until last week. Then his number...
...cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last week he celebrated "Collectivization Day" while mujiks glowered and grumbled. When a peasant does not sow and reap on all his land it may be confiscated by the Government, proclaimed a "collectivist farm," and thereafter worked...