Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years this cozy little city has been notorious for the ruthless rule of the Cracker Party, an ignorant, illiterate conglomeration of mill hands, job holders, liquor dealers, and small businessmen. Boss Hague never ran a tighter system. Convicts and city materials went into private jobs; plain citizens were jugged for protesting. When Fleming, disgusted with the local scene, opened up on the Crackers, even his friends told him he was crazy to stick his neck out. He wrote, he spoke, he agitated, he became a zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month...
...turned-out young fashion scouts, and both try to vary their pictures of blankly beautiful models with portraits of society women. Both are fawned over by publicity-hungry manufacturers. But they resent being taken for twins. Their differences are largely those that set apart two strong-minded women of ruthless, sometimes reckless taste...
...have to make the best defense we can of our most cherished social and historical values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...
...Madison, Dave Lilienthal was known as tough, stubborn, ruthless. "It was that driving and brushing aside," one of his associates recalls, "that irritated most of us so." But Lilienthal reorganized the Wisconsin utility statutes, which became the models for half a dozen states...
...tenants against unjustified rent increases. ... It is unthinkable that the Congress would actually take steps to make more difficult or even impossible the efficient administration of the Government's present activities relating to housing and home finance." He urged an investigation of the real-estate lobby and its "ruthless disregard of the public welfare...