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...Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung to set themselves up as "autonomous" and independent of the rest of China (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935 et seq.). At about this time a Mr. Yin Ju-keng...
History and Literature Prize, of $50, to the member of the Junior class in Harvard College who shows the greatest promise in the field of History and Literature, to Howard F. Schemer '37, of Oak Park, Illinois...
...great extent the deep diplomatic wisdom of the Holy See and its nuncios is at the disposal of fanatically pious, fanatically ambitious, hawk-eyed onetime Austrian Empress Zita. Last week this talented schemer, a veritable Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt...
...Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard is equally superb...
...triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork. In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort. Claudius was the last person in Rome to find out the truth about her: that she was a nymphomaniacal adulteress, a treacherous schemer, a cold-blooded poisoner. This discovery made Claudius nearly willing...