Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dustrial democracy" on to the nation's adamantine industrial life. Such a man had to possess an enormous amount of physical energy. He had to have gusto. He had to be a phrasemaker. He had to be handy with the tools of propaganda. He had to have the ruthless drive of a Cromwell and the tact of a Disraeli In 2,000 A D. there will still be alive hundreds & hundreds of octogenarians to whom the words "chiselers," "codes " crackdown" and "Blue Eagle" will have an historic association. And to them the Man of the Year of 1933 will...
...than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows, Vardis Fisher's books are not cheerful reading, have been called brutal, ruthless. Strong stomachs will find them tough meat but untainted. In Tragic Life brought Vridar Hunter through his unhappy childhood and terrified adolescence in the Idaho hills. Passions Spin the Plot finds him. a gangling youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college...
...leaving nearly 10,000 students housed in a $19,000,000 plant. Even his bitterest critic. Editor Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, last week conceded "[The university's] magnificence is largely Jessupian. As an organizer President Jessup is unusually effective. . . . Also, he is as ruthless as such men must...
...Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
Despite the piety of his two dead wives, Dictator Calles is well known to rate in the Vatican's estimation as a ruthless enemy of Rome (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.). Cried Chief Tabasco Delegate Arnulfo Perez: "Where is the God who cannot see the lack of food and all the misery of the common people but can see the pomp and splendor of the Pope? . . . God did not create man. . . . God exists only in books, by which the priests exploit the poor! Man created God, and God only exists in petrified souls. . . . Mexico wants...