Word: ruthlessness
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...shrieked in Manhattan, last week, from the platform of a hall into which had jammed 5,000 men, women and children, all members or hangers-on of the Workers' (Communist) Party. This group of U. S. Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army. Of all the leaders of Communism...
Both revolutions were at first entirely bloodless. The soldiers of the garrisons at Vera Cruz and Nogales simply obeyed their Generals-previously trusted servants of the state-when ordered to declare against the government of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil, ruthless suppressor of Catholics...
Stripped of all ornament, bare and ruthless, the stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...
Royal Murder. Despite the Dictator-King's democratic remarks, he has appointed Leader of The White Hand General Zivkovitch his Prime Minister. How likely it is that this ruthless militarist will promote democracy appears from his dark record. He was the spruce young lieutenant charged with the personal safety of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga, in 1903, when they were foully murdered in the royal bedroom of the old palace at Belgrade...
Lucient Saint, ruthless French Resident General of Tunis, was transferred, last week, to be Resident General of French Morocco, amid covert Tunisian glee...