Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suchowfu, 400 miles from Peking, was the auspicious scene upon which this alliance was struck up. Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
...always been an absolute autocrat in his own dominions. He has told correspondents almost every day for at least a year that his armies were going to "purge China of Communism"; but those armies were in retreat last week toward Peking, driven from South China by the great "Nationalist" Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, June 13). It seemed not unlikely that "Dictator" Chang was sounding last week the first brave notes of his swan dirge. At any rate, the Occidental diplomats at Peking did not honor his "inauguration" by their presence, seemed totally unimpressed. The wire was strung, the bags...
...with the Conservative Nationalists last week, and to be re-establishing a stable regime in which the Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin (see RUSSIA) was again prominent after a period of eclipse. 2)The "Conservative Nationalists" of Nanking who were rapidly pushing toward Peking last week, led by their generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 3) The "Independent Nationalist" army of General Feng Yusiang, likewise advancing on Peking from Honan Province
...upon the heels of that announcement, the British Broadcasting Co. sent news over the cables that Sir Henry Wood, ubiquitous concert generalissimo, was to perform a like function for the radio millions of England...
Laborite John R. Clynes, generalissimo of the Labor party in the absence of onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald in the U. S.: "I rise to protest that this bill would prevent workers on strike from doing anything to make their strike a success. . . . Why this Government solicitude for 'Blacklegs' ["Scabs"]? . . . This bill would make it illegal to even make faces at a 'Blackleg...