Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint state funeral, small, earnest U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston talked long and seriously with General Harry H. Johnson, new chief of the U.S. section of the anti-aftosa commission-out of the corner of his mouth. Afterwards Thurston announced that he had ordered a full investigation. Later he handed to Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet a note deploring the comments of Mexican newspapers...
...York is an old stamping ground for Plaza. As a general's disinherited son, in the depths of the depression he had sold apples on a Manhattan street corner. Later he returned to the U.S. as his country's ambassador. Now he plans to see bankers as well as doctors, sound them out for some new loans to get his administration started. Another possibility: persuading his friend Nelson Rockefeller to start a development corporation in Ecuador like his Basic Economy Corporation in Venezuela...
...announced that he meant to steer Peru on a straight-down-the-middle course. In the quick showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising were discredited. Another favorable sign: before the Andean rebels were squelched, APRA's paper La Tribune, announced that APRA too was "wholly on the side of the government...
...when General William Booth was on a tour abroad, his eldest son, Chief of Staff Bramwell Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers...
...gift to the Booths that Christmas was an auburn-haired girl who grew up to be a general-Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army. Now 82 and retired, General Booth has never written her memoirs, though she has often been urged to. Said she: "I have never written about myself. I won't write about myself, and that decides it." But she let somebody else do it: she handed her papers and correspondence over to British Journalist Philip Whitwell Wilson, with whom she had been in close touch for some 20 years. Published this week is Author Wilson...