Word: ito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Baron Reijiro ("The Archer") Wakatsuki, 83, Japan's democrat, onetime head of the old Minseito (peace) party, twice prewar Premier, helpless opponent of the army's 1931 march into Manchuria (he resigned shortly after); after long illness; near Ito, Japan...
...World. In Ito, on Izu Peninsula, Japan, natives celebrated the beginning of their annual three-day shiritsumi festival, during which the law allows any man to pinch any woman...
...government's Economic Stabilization Board. With him were the Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the chief of the Accounts Bureau of the Finance Ministry and the chief of the fertilizer department of the Commerce & Industry Ministry. More were coming in all the time. As Warden Kojiro Ito rearranged his cells to give individual attention to the Oh-mono (big shots), police arrested former Deputy Prime Minister Suehiro Nishio, who left the government two months ago under suspicion of taking bribes. Premier Hitoshi Ashida and his cabinet resigned the next...
...parties last week got together to bargain for posts in the new cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...
City Slicked. In Tokyo, Visitor Yone Ito lost 1,700 yen ($6) to an absconding business partner, another 8,000 yen to three "kind looking" purse snatchers who offered to help her find him, and finally her suitcase to the sympathetic stranger who showed her the way to the railroad station...