Word: generalissimoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World war will not come. The Americans cannot protect you. So have courage. Get in touch with us. We will wait to the last minute. Please come ..." Up to last week, Nationalist leaders professed to be amused by these appeals, although they were more concerned about the effect among Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces (some of whom have received individual messages), and security measures were tightened. Now the Chinese Nationalists fear that, if the impression of U.S. feebleness and indecision spreads in Asia, the Red siren calls will be so much the stronger-and will fail...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 27, daughter of Spam's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and Cristobal Martinez Bordin Ortega y Bascaran, Marques de Villaverde, 32: their third child, first son. Name: Francisco. Weight...
...peerless leader has disclosed that the re-establishment of the office of Vice President is being considered," reported El Caribe, newspaper mouthpiece of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news. Anyone named Vice President would obviously be under grooming to take over the presidency, currently held by the Benefactor's brother and puppet, Hector Trujillo. Approving letters, marveling at the "brilliant suggestion of the Benefactor," began to appear, day after day, in the paper...
...Russians will launch a Pacific war in 1956, said Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek this week, in an interview with the United Press. All that they are waiting for, he added, is the completion of a giant network of railroads, transecting China vertically and horizontally and linking the Asian land mass with Russia...
...Trujillo as Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo calls his 24-year tyranny over the Dominican Republic, no chum has been closer, no tool more useful than Secretary of State Without Portfolio Anselmo Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car) that disposed of the regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot...