Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Julián Besteiro, Foreign Minister of Loyalist Spain's National Defense Council, over Madrid's Union Radio last week. He was speaking directly and publicly to Burgos, 220 miles away, seat of the Government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco...
...Loyalist side last week. Little doubt remained that the Franco Government was anxious to wind up the 32-months'-old war that has killed more than 1,000,000 people, exiled half as many. Well it might, for even the Loyalists assumed that when peace came Generalissimo Franco would become the ruler of the entire country...
...been quiet on the intramural sports front for more than a week, and all will continue to be quiet for several more weeks, giving Generalissimo Adolph Samborski a breathing spell after a furious fall and winter season and a chance to figure out how the eight entries in the Grand Harvard Handicap stand...
Although outmatched early in the war, the Loyalist fleet continued to do some quiet, important convoying near the coastline. Last week, with the enemy ships out of the way, Generalissimo Franco declared a complete blockade. The Loyalist coastline was declared "closed to navigation for all classes of embarkation, regardless of their flag and merchandise." Ships were warned that at several points the Franco Navy had submarines waiting with orders to "sink every ship that tries to pass the three-mile limit, no matter what flag...
...warned of the huge human tide approaching, the French Government made few advance arrangements to receive the refugees. It had thought it would be a matter of only a few weeks before most refugees would return to their homeland. Indeed, one of the reasons advanced for quick recognition of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government was that it would facilitate the refugees' return...