Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State of Louisiana there has ruled for several years a ruthless political demon, Huey P. Long. Efforts to laugh him out of existence have failed, and when his actions became unbearably tyrannical the people of his State appealed to the Senate Committee on Elections and Privileges to investigate their charges that Senator Long was incapable of representing Louisiana. We have been convinced of the legality of the anti-Long side; we have met Long and have been disgusted with him. His very character, guarded by a bodyguard, is repulsive to our idea of a United States Senator...
...pirateering for Borneo. Since he ended up as the Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo and was knighted by Queen Victoria there is nothing shameful in the story of Little Boy Brooke except court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan of Borneo by violence, trickery and threats. Even today the discreet British Statesman's Year Book is obliged to list opium, gambling and arrack (strong spirits) as leading sources of revenue of the House of Brooke in Sarawak...
Next to Josef Stalin the most hotly publicized hero in all Soviet Russia is stocky, thick-mustached Lazare Moiseyevich Kaganovich, a smart, ruthless Jew who is credited with leading and driving the Russian peasantry to sow and reap their bumper harvest (TIME...
...self-destruction. We would save useful mechanical invention, machine production, industrial efficiency, modern means of communication, broad education. . . . But the unnecessary expansion of industrial plants, the waste of natural resources, the exploitation of consumers of natural monopolies, the accumulation of stagnant surpluses, child labor and the ruthless exploitation of all labor . . . these were consumed in the fires that they themselves kindled: we must make sure that as we reconstruct our life there be no soil in which such weeds can grow again...
...Films, managed to pull faster ones in the financial world than they would ever have dreamed of trying to foist off on their patrons in the name of melodrama. So the role of honor might be extended indefinitely. Those on it perfected a technique of cold blodded exploitation and ruthless betrayal of trusts which would make Captain Kidd and the Brotherhood look like second rate pikers. Some at least have met their due, and the only bright spot in the picture is that it's a rare prison of the better class that hasn't its Bankers' Row these days...