Word: generalissimoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Fox trembling from operating losses that reached $22.5 million last year, the Wall Street directors had insisted that the studio was in need of new, hard-nosed leadership-someone like James Aubrey, who made so much money at CBS. Wrong, said Zanuck. What Fox needed was a generalissimo who was also a moviemaker...
...more than a decade, the morale of Formosa's 2,000,000 Chinese Nationalists has been nourished by the hope that one day they will return to their homeland only 90 miles away across the Formosa Strait. To achieve this goal, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has kept his powerful army and air force in tiptop shape, and devoured intelligence reports from the mainland. Last week, in a speech celebrating Youth Day, in bustling, prosperous Taipei, he said: "The situation both at home and abroad is such that we can no longer passively wait and see if something will happen...
Auer thought "a good job had been done raising living standards, although they may be false standards to the extent that they rely heavily on massive U.S. aid.'' He also called on those familiar TIME cover faces, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang. He found the generalissimo fit, energetic and gracious, and eager to hear about the fluctuations of U.N. sentiment on Red China...
During his first 20 years as a teacher, mostly at Peking National University, Hu Shih sharply attacked the one-party government of Chiang Kaishek, but when the choice had to be made between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists, the philosopher and the Generalissimo were reconciled. In debate at the United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist...
...S.A.O. propaganda has to insist, preposterous though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs a regime like Generalissimo Franco's in Spain, "only tougher." But Salan prefers the role of a mystical statesman, without making any public declaration on future policy. Salan operates in politics as he has in war?slowly, thoughtfully, his undoubted courage overlaid with caution...