Word: ruthlessness
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Sumner's delivery, according to Mr. Keller, was "plain, hard and ruthless... I do not recall that he told a single story in his classes... He never made concessions to the youth and flightiness of his students." Class work was a serious business; order and dignity were next to Godliness. Let Mr. Keller illustrate...
Many a coal miner considers President Lewis a racketeer. That is because he is as ruthless as any political boss in running his organization. Dissenters are put down with fist and foot. Every U. M. W. election brings its charge that ballot boxes have been stuffed with Lewis votes from locals which exist only on paper...
...left when they tremblingly lowered the steel shutters in front of their windows again. Police on the loose peppered the shutters of several shops with machine gun bullets, rode about Havana at night firing into the air and were accused of shooting down both Oppositionists and bystanders in ruthless efforts to obey Chief Ainciart's order: "Break the strikes!' Tourist steamers, fearing to dock at Havana, passed up the port. Supplies of meat, bread, oils, beer and other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...Ruthless," grumbled the official refugees as they stood on the Saint Lazare platform. Many had had six clays or less to sell or sublet their homes at a loss, dismiss their servants, recall children from school, wind up their bureaus' affairs, pack up, get out. The William L. Fingers of Paris fondled a month-old baby. Their plight was no less unpleasant than that of able Chief Commercial Attache Fayette W. Allport, who had recently given up a $25,000-a-year job to return to the service. Behind them they left two Commerce representatives to keep each other...