Word: generalissimoing
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Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, has talked recently with President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Bidault. This week he was flying to Moscow in high hopes of conferring with Generalissimo Stalin. Inside the Kremlin, he would try to take a first step toward ending the Soviet boycott of U.N. over the China question, by proposing a top-level meeting that might somehow break the present stalemate in the Security Council. This in turn might ease other international tensions. "The world," Lie said earnestly, "must try again to bring the cold...
Suceeding Prince Lyov in the provisional government of 1917, Kerensky then became Generalissimo and the first legal dictator of Russia. While Kerensky ruled Russia, Pitirlm A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, was his personal secretary...
...great military strategist. At the drop of a hat he will get out the military maps. He offered to take me right down to the map room to make a point, and he rose to lead the way. I saw Molotov was bored stiff, so I said, 'Generalissimo' (he loved that 'generalissimo'), I'd like to look at those maps with you, but it seems to me Mr. Molotov is bored.' Molotov was standing there, his mouth puckered like a stuffy butler. Stalin looked around with a terrific contempt...
Lafayette & a Belch. In New York, James Aloysius Farley, generalissimo of Coca-Cola's overseas expeditionary forces, sizzled like a shaken Coke bottle on a hot stove. "Coca-Cola wasn't injurious to the health of the American soldiers who liberated France from the Nazi," he exploded. "[It] followed their guns on the beachheads . . . I'm afraid General Lafayette would think this decision was small reward . . . This might be the straw to break the back of the camel hauling billions of American dollars to France...
...four former mayors of Shanghai. "At this critical moment," came the clipped tones of the Gimo's native Chekiang, "I cannot shirk my responsibility." He added optimistically: "I do not have any doubt that we will recover the mainland, that the Communists will be crushed . . ." That afternoon, the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang received a thousand guests at a tea celebrating the Gimo's return to office...