Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Government had nearly finished one of the most spectacularly successful manhunts in U. S. history. The hunt had cost the lives of three Federal agents, six local officers. But it had made the Government feared by criminals throughout the land. As 1934 began John Dillinger was leading as ruthless a gang of desperadoes as the Midwest had ever known. The Government met ruthlessness with ruthlessness. First Dillinger man to go down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer...
...throughout Russia are meat, potatoes, tea and such luxuries as butter, which at times has been classed in the Soviet Union as a medicine, available only on doctor's prescription. Because Russia has again had a bumper wheat crop, Premier Molotov talked exclusively about that, said nothing of the ruthless Stalin tactics which caused desperate peasants to massacre their cattle and saddled Russia with a meat shortage which will endure for decades...
...worshipper of James Joyce. "To my mind he is a very able man, but not different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will...
...acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment when Depression...
Impressionable Los Angeles was the scene of the most ruthless anti-Sinclair activity. Under what was said to be the guiding hand of Republican State Chairman Louis B. Mayer (MGM), the cinema industry was turning out Stop-Sinclair "news-reels," had even assessed many of its stars for Merriam campaign funds. A united front against Sinclairism was effected by the three big Los Angeles papers, which simply quit reporting news of EPIC and its sponsor. A flood of news-photographs was released locally and to the nation to prove that EPIC was luring an army of bums to California. Their...