Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Titles of Spanish nobility were nullified and swept away last week by the Provisional Government. But their decree, by no means ruthless, permits use of former actual titles as "courtesy titles" by Spain...
...cowl, or the machine gun in the rumble seat, alert Policeman Ripley covered him with the weapon he had hidden beneath his rain-cape. The officer marched his prisoner, hands in the air, through the rain to the police station. Word soon flashed throughout the East that James Nannery, ruthless young desperado wanted dead or alive in New York for killing a patrolman, fugitive from Sing Sing since 1928, suspected of many a big holdup including the unsuccessful one at Brooklyn Navy Yard (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) had been captured. His girl friend, who fled in the coupe, was taken...
...first successful cigaret-making machine, got one William T. O'Brien, a bright young mechanic, to perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with a capital of $25,000,000.? In a ruthless, buccaneering business era, Buck Duke assembled his great combine with all the gusto and smash of the northern tycoons who were putting together railroads, steel mills, oil wells, can factories. He fought historic battles in what was one of the most fiercely throat-cutting U. S. businesses. Then...
...essence of Dean Donham's solution is that the U. S. must not engage in ruthless competition with Europe. To do so will result in an eventual lowering of the U. S. standard of living, in a financial prostration of the Western countries, in a spread of Communism to England and Germany, thence eventually to the U. S. with the resultant destruction of Western civilization. Against expansion by exports, he advocates a steady upbuilding of the home market, planning by business and Government to give the U. S. workingman satisfaction of his greatest intangible demand, Security. For the desire...
...Soviet practice of forcing Russian executives and technical experts to work for the government is rather a communist political principle than a sound economic policy. It practically amounts to state serfdom, for the worker, although nominally free, is, in reality, a slave to the state. The ruthless suppression of the moderately successful peasants or kulaks and the persecution of the 'intellectuals' harboring so-called counter-revolutionary tendencies are, in the final analysis, political measures...