Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around the Reichsbischof consternation spread. Even his ruthless, sabre-scarred "Civil Administrator" Dr. August Jaeger, took alarm. Dr. Jaeger has done most of the Reichsbischof's dirty work, tearing around Germany with squads of police, seizing the treasuries of bishops deposed by Dr. Müller. even ordering them locked up by Storm Troopers in their ecclesiastical palaces (TIME, Oct. 22). All this, as the Fatherland knows, was done with the avowed aim of knocking Protestant factions together into a unified National Church. But last week frightened Dr. Jaeger bleated, "I have never used the words 'National Church...
...without troops was Adolf Hitler's blustering Air Minister and Premier of Prussia, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under house arrest. Despite incessant rains...
Died. Asa Keyes, 57, besmirched one-time District Attorney of Los Angeles County; of a paralytic stroke; in Beverly Hills. Slashing and ruthless in court, he sent some 5,000 bombers, Bluebeards, hammer murderesses and other felons to prison before he himself was convicted for bribery in connection with the bankruptcy of Julian Petroleum...
...called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
Fashions in heroes change like fashions in hats, and the ruthless strong man is fast returning to popular favor. Author Blanco, romantic but unsentimental Latin, has always admired the type. His idealized portrait of an imaginary dictator will not please U. S. readers so much as his Journey of the Flame (TIME, Nov. 6), but they will lend a friendlier ear than they would have a few years ago to Rico, Bandit and Dictator...