Word: dais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NOMA OF JAPAN?Seiji Noma?Vanguard ($3.75). Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha, founded in 1910, is the leading publishing house of Japan. Its nine magazines comprise some 70% of the total Nipponese output. In book publishing it is the birthplace of mass production in Japan with best sellers passing the million mark. Founder Seiji Noma has been compared to Newnes, Northcliffe, Hearst, Curtis. Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank...
...these knew what the Occidental Press had not bothered to find out. Behind the youth who is now Emperor of Annam, docile Vinh Tuy, whose reign is known as Bao Dai. is a dynasty scarcely 150 years old. The preceding dynasty was a figurehead for two powerful families. One of these was the family of Nguyen. With the aid of a French bishop...
...memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from nine to 19 in France, was France's crowning accomplishment. And it was no accident that the French Resident General of Annam allowed him to fall in with pretty Nguyen Huu Hao, his very, very distant kin 150 years back. Her ancestors had been Catholic martyrs. Her father...
...Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed by the Imperial princesses and the blue-turbaned wives of the mandarins. Two scrolls, on which were written a prayer to Bao Dai's ancestors and the name and age (18) of Nguyen Huu Hao, were burnt on the altars. Finally the two young people were brought face to face and married. It took three more days of Buddhist rites behind the locked gates of the Red City to complete the ceremony...
Married. Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic; and Bao Dai, 21, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; in Hûe, Annam Married. Nila Cram Cook, 25, eccentric onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi; and Albert M. Hutchins, 28, steward on the freighter which brought her home to the U. S. from India; in Manhattan...