Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their chief proposes to take over the control of the Reich. Strasser, speaking in Stuttgart on Dec. 11, promised that the reordering of the nation will be drastic. "Let no one talk to us of mercy," he said. "No mercy has ever been shown us. We shall be hard, ruthless and brutal in cleaning up the trash of the last twelve years, and we shall not yield an inch." Hitler, on the other hand, has apparently decided that the Nazi rise to power must be altogether gentle and that some sort of modification of policy must precede that accord with...
...York has condemned advertisements which claim that a store is underselling competitors (TIME, Oct. 12). The B. B. B. in a letter which Macy's competitors reprinted in advertisements, called such methods ". . . an open attack on the integrity of advertising. . . unsound business. . . inimical to the public interest . . . ruthless and predatory...
Town Topics is brazen indeed in its comments-fawning or abusive-concern-ing socialites or would-be socialites. But it is Tatler (merged last year with Club Fellow & Washington Mirror-TIME. April 21, 1930) which publishes the ruthless list of debutante ratings whose author. "Audacious," was revealed last week as Editor Schemm. The grades in the list are "A," "B," "C," "D" and a dreadful, all-inclusive "E-Z." Specimen comments from the current issue...
...that football is treated on the Pacific Coast with an exaggerated seriousness. The determination to win at all costs has overridden things which properly precede it in importance, among them a decent respect for the rights of individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...
...schools has been similarly overwhelmed, 50 per cent of all the children of proper high school age entering and spending from one to four years without compulsion of any kind. This is proof of a widespread faith in education, but it is also proof that Jefferson's idea of ruthless selection has not deeply affected its theory or its operation. There are 13,951 high schools of all classes in the United States, of which 632 enroll over 500 pupils, 278 enroll over 1,000 pupils, while the Los Angeles Commercial High School for Boys has 8,440, the Brooklyn...