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...morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where he was awaiting trial for falsification of bank accounts had electrified the Press. Few hours later the reporter called at the Inn, chatted with the proprietor, suggested to him that his feeble old guest was Harriman. To see for himself, the proprietor went upstairs, found...
Edmund Austin Mays, Jr. '32, of New York City, has been appointed graduate manager of the Harvard Union, it was announced by Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University, yesterday. Mays will replace R. A. Stout '29, who now holds the office...
...year-old Ceremonial Throne. "The Japanese can have this province," cried Tang passionately, "when all the Chinese are dead! . . . Manchukuo is nothing but a big fake. No Chinese yet has voluntarily joined the Japanese. Even Pu Yi [in his childhood the last Emperor of China, today Regent of Manchukuo] would get out of his present job if he could...
...Portage man, William Llywelyn Breese, banker-manufacturer. The U. S. is conscious of her chiefly as authoress of some twenty-odd books, of which Miss Lulu Bett is most famed (her dramatization of it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with many a past and present protege (David Gordian, Anzia Yezierska, the late Margery Latimer Toomer et al.). Other books: Birth...
...very last, the Japanese hoped they could buy Jehol's Tang. Finally Japan's puppet Regent of Manchukuo, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, denounced Tang as a "renegade," took away his empty title "Vice Chairman of the Privy Council of Manchukuo" and bestowed on the Japanese-Manchukuo forces advancing upon Jehol a splendidly euphemistic name: The Jehol Pacification Expeditionary Forces...