Word: gomel
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...impressive marble building remindful of No. 23 Wall St., the bland and open citadel of J. P. Morgan & Co. Also bland and open is No. 1, citadel of the Mitsui Gomel Kaisha...
There are richer holding companies than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise at once so vast and so diverse. Its agencies in foreign lands outnumber the embassies and consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...
...another subsidiary warehouses one-fifth of everything warehoused in Japan, and still another dominates Japanese insurance. Japanese call Mitsui Gomel Kaisha a "business empire." Its prime minister for the last 18 years has been Baron Dr. Takuma...
...Naval Treaty cost him his life; Second Junnosuke Inouye, the soundest and most brilliant Japanese Finance Minister in a generation; and Third Dr. Dan?to name only the Big Three. Biggest as a Peace Man, from the practical standpoint, was Banker Dan. He had thrown the weight of Mitsui Gomel Kaisha against war, unsuccessfully...