Word: ruthlessness
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...visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship...
...city editor of the Chicago Tribune, later as managing editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner during the most rough-&-tumble era of Chicago journalism, Walter Howey was a profane romanticist, ruthless but not cruel, unscrupulous but endowed with a private code of ethics. He was the sort of newsman who managed to have hell break loose right under his feet, expected similar miracles from his underlings, rewarded them generously. Undersized, unprepossessing, he was afraid of nothing...
...done, but people don't yet realize what the Supreme Court decision means in plain language. (The President began to read excerpts from the stack of messages in his hand.) Here's a telegram from the druggists of Indiana: "Save us small business men from the ruthless destruction caused by the killing of NRA. . . ." Here's another from New York: "Issue a proclamation calling for observance of NRA and hold a plebiscite on continuing it. . . ." Here's one from Hastings, Neb.: "Issue buttons so that everyone can wear them, saying I'M FOR NRA. . . ." Here...
...does not like criticism from Business, observers credited him with taking pains not to give Business too much offense. Soon the new Federal Communications Commission will begin a $750,000 investigation, instigated by Montana's sharpshooting Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, of huge American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Were a ruthless, inquisitorial Pecora hired as the Commission's special counsel, Business would have shuddered. Instead, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, a conservative liberal who now has a rich corporate law practice, was persuaded by the President last week to take the job. With Max Gardner...
What this country needs is a counter-falter and murderer, a perfect criminal, secret, unscrupulous, ruthless, yet with high moral purpose. Given this un-catchable, unknown Robin Hood, America's problems of recovery, reform, and revolution would be solved...