Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very next morning a gleaming German airliner alighted in Paris with the so-called "Economic Dictator" of the Reich, famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and Reichsbank President, in his most honeyed and wheedling mood. Dr. Schacht can be one of the sharpest, most cutting and ruthless men in Europe, but he was all smiles as he stepped from what might just as well have been a Nazi bomber and said with irony: "Well, well, Messieurs! I have come from Berlin in only five hours. You see we are very near each other after...
...Civil Service, above all, is to be congratulated. It will not suffer in the end for this ruthless exposure of how high is its standard and rigorous its code...
...bankers were fomenting world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like a mocking, Jewish profile. When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt...
Cowardly Captain Niggl, ripped from his comfortable post behind the lines and plumped down in the most awful spot on the Verdun front, soon understands the reason behind the company's transfer; when he realizes how ruthless Lieutenant Kroysing is, he is terrified. Just as he is about ready to sign the damning confession, the French attack. After a terrific bombardment the order is given to evacuate Douaumont, and in the chaos of the battle Captain Niggl gets back to safety. Lieutenant Kroysing is reported missing. Meantime Berlin, whose company is in charge of an ammunition dump...
...polls in unprecedented numbers for the Statewide primaries to pick candidates for Governor. Among Democrats, a vote for Governor Henry Horner's renomination might mean: 1) approval of that official's honest, mildly progressive administration; 2) disapproval of Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and his ruthless Cook County political machine. A vote for Candidate Herman Niels Bundesen might mean: 1) approval of Mayor Kelly and party patronage; 2) attachment to Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune, which threw its arch-Republican influence behind Boss Kelly's candidate...