Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will Rogers in "David Harum" is announced as the next film feature for R. K. O. Keith's commencing Saturday. The screen play, following closely the typically American theme of the novel, concerns itself with the life of a shrewd and ruthless horse-trader. His dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor...
...court is careful to point out that the test is whether the regulation by a State is unreasonable or arbitrary and the order in question "appears not unreasonable or arbitrary or without relation to the purpose to prevent ruthless competition from destroying the wholesale price structure on which the farmer depends for his livelihood and the community for an assured supply of milk...
There is Quinette and his intellectual criminality, moving in the inner circles of revolutionary intrigue. There is Sammecaue: his connivings as the representative of ruthless capitalistic monopoly and his struggle with the frigidity of his best friend's wife. Wazemmes and Haverkamp are still on the scene, wrapping their tentacles around Parisian real estate; and the sensitive liberal, Gurau, and his rationalized surrender to the corruption of the oil cartel. The two most interesting figures, however, are the young students, Jallez and Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just...
...Brown did attempt to reduce ruthless competition among airlines, he was doing no more than the present Administration is trying to do under...
...young gentlemen! That expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...