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Once their success seemed so doubtful that General Manager Naokishi offered to commit hara kiri, if she felt that he had mismanaged. For answer Mme. Suzuki turned over her entire affairs to M. Naokishi and went off with her children for a summer in the mountains. When she returned bankruptcy had been averted, and soon the War boom made her Japan's richest woman...
...York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, psychoanalyst, reminded people that the motive for suicide is often a neurotic desire for revenge, as in Japanese hara-kiri (self-disembowelment) upon the doorstep of an insulter...
...Darting from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...
...Senator David I. Walsh, Democratic opponent of Senator Butler will head the list of speakers. He will be accompanied on the platform by the Honorable J. G. Carney, president of the Central Labor Union of Boston. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '23, chairman of Republican Associates Inc., and Neal O'Hara '15, newspaper columist...
...returns will be announced by Mr. O'Hara after the first three speakers have finished...