Word: hideo
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...power and all success to Hideo Takahashi, TIME, Sept. i, but the nose-wiping campaign in Japan was actually conceived in 1912 by Frank Putney Haight, Waukesha, Wis., and Edward C. Jones, Portage, same state, both employed at that time on editorial staff of The Japan Advertiser...
...righteous and an upright man is Mr. Hideo Takahashi of Yamagata. Eight years ago he returned from the U. S. to the city of his birth with enough money to keep him in frugal comfort for the rest of his life. But Hideo Takahashi was not satisfied. Lacking great funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper...