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Henry Pu Yi, onetime "Boy Emperor of China" and now Japan's puppet head of the new state of "Manchukuo" (Manchuria), is stated to be not its Regent but its "President...
...raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott set up his old schoolmate James Ballantyne and his brother in a rival house. Soon Scott began publishing anonymously the successful "Waverley Novels." Even the Prince Regent could not induce "The Wizard of the North" to drop his anonymity-until Ballantyne & Co. failed. Scott went back to Constable. In 1825 Constable too crashed, leaving Scott more than $600,000 in the red. Friends, admirers, bankers offered to help. But Sir Walter Scott, bankrupt, widowed and ill, pitched...
...With an area as large as Kentucky's and a population twice as great, Annam exports prime rice & pepper, fair tea, trinkets. Beyond a doubt her young Emperor would have preferred to remain in Paris and he almost had a chance to stay on. The August Messenger from the Regent of Annam who set out last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank at sea last May, August Messenger Thai Van Toan barely escaped with his life. Last week he had the satisfaction of seeing Emperor...
When his father died in 1925 the French returned Bao Dai to Hue, crowned him in 1926, appointed a Regent and rushed him back to a town house in Paris where he played more ping pong, rounded out his magnificent collection of phonograph disks. Last week he disappeared with finality into the Forbidden City where (etiquet decrees) the Emperor of Annam must live invisible to his subjects, remote, mysterious, awesome...
...Regent Winters is a fine citizen, a successful business man. and is doing splendid work in ending some of the educational rackets as practiced at the University of Washington...