Word: generalissimoing
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...World's Greatest Newspaper" (the Chicago Tribune) committed one of the season's greatest social blunders in Madrid. When his converted 6-17 landed at Barajas Airport, it was emblazoned with the red, yellow and purple flag of the late Spanish Republic. The official reception party representing Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Spain (a gold and red flag) stared in stunned silence as Colonel McCormick stepped confidently on to the airfield, beaming to right & left. The airfield commander finally whispered in the ear of Colonel McCormick's pilot, who explained that the flag had been painted...
...benign Generalissimo also busied himself making the best possible impression on the five traveling investigators of the Inter-American Peace Commission. Largely as the result of Haitian charges that he was behind a December plot to overthrow the government of Haiti, the Organization of American States had determined to find out why there was so little peace in the turbulent Caribbean...
First Grade: lectures on Stalin's militant life. Poems and songs about Stalin learned by heart. Pupils to be shown pictures from various stages of the Soviet Generalissimo's career...
...plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa, "We don't have the money to run it," he claims. "I just hope the Generalissimo will ship us back the arms and ammunition we need to defend ourselves...
Strong-willed María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascarán, Marqués de Villaverde, 28, a doctor in the Spanish army...