Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objective: to win sufficient popular support to carry the next general election and set up a legitimate Communist government. Lee's ruthless attack has at last aroused some spirit of resistance among the Labor liberals. Last week, in a confidence vote on a minor budget issue, Marshall defeated the crypto-Communists...
...Lynching Bee." Ratliff aired his own accusations at an employee meeting where City Editor Jack Cronin also charged that "the ruthless collusion of unprincipled men" had "betrayed the ideal for which we fought in 1952." Ratliff's chief charges were that : 1 ) board members voted themselves stock options, which, at his insistence, they finally dropped, except for Ferger; 2) Ferger and Assistant Publisher Eugene S. Duffield together paid themselves an estimated $135,000 in a year when the whole company earned a $349,000 profit and paid its stockholders only $78,000 in dividends; 3) Ferger and Duffield negotiated...
Gesture to Gandhi. The Indian leader, a tough if not ruthless foe of Communists within his own country, spared no effort to make international Communism's top dogs feel welcome and among friends. He arranged for them 18 days of sightseeing, state banquets, formal receptions, folk festivals...
...could make them dance to my music ... I was utterly ruthless...
...Clem Attlee, who at 72 has been Labor's leader for 20 years, sat calmly pulling at his pipe, while Bevanites and moderates raged at each other. Said one delegate: "I see both sides. Some of the union bosses are ruthless and overbearing. Some of the left-wing delegates are ambitious and influenced by the Communists. We must have a leader powerful enough to reconcile and lead both wings...