Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democracy" dictated for China by Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung got under way in Peiping. To the Red capital from Hong Kong and elsewhere came a motley group of anti-Kuomintang fellow travelers. The Communist masters dubbed them "democratic personages," decked them in cool blue summer uniforms, then directed them to a preparatory conference for a "people's congress" and "coalition government." Best guess as to the Red timetable: by late August the "New Democracy" would be ready for formal launching and a bid for the world's diplomatic recognition...
...trap was sprung by hard-riding horsemen of Ma Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile...
...Boss. The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys...
...Zurich, gossipy rumors of a tiff between Cinemactress Jennifer Jones, 30, and her boss, Cinemagnate David O. Selzniclc, 47, prompted a strong statement from him: "It's an absolute big lie that Miss Jones and I have had or are having any disagreement. We are great friends and always have been . . . The date of our marriage has not been fixed. To decide upon that is up to the lady...
...their high & handsome manner, they preferred to liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville, a distant Spreckels kin and longtime employee of the company, was glad to help in the liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans and Dorothy C. Spreckels. The sisters are the only members of the Spreckels clan still interested in the family business...