Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Industries, Ltd. The aim of the Solvay interests in wanting to elect new directors is to steal information for use by Allied's rivals. "The American Chemical industry is today fighting to maintain that [the American] market for American capital and American labor against the organized, combined and ruthless attacks of foreign competition...
BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK- H. C. McNeile-Crime Club ($2). An unknown threat against the Empire and the murder of a Secret Service man pit Drum- mond et al. against a ruthless criminal genius...
...home in Abington, Pa. Lessing Julius Rosenwaldt board chairman of Sears. Roebuck & Co., answered the telephone. The voice he heard was that of a man who had sent him three letters demanding $100,000 on pain of "cruel, ruthless and vicious death" for him. his wife and five children. On another telephone Mr. Rosenwald's family telephoned police who traced the call, then raced to the store from which the voice came. Mr. Rosenwald went on talking. Said he afterwards: "First we talked about the money and tried to effect a compromise, and you know that always takes time...
...rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...
Back from a state visit to Rumania which Jugoslav editors called "momentous," His Majesty King Alexander began to play the role of Ruthless Dictator last week, dropping that of Constitutional Sovereign...