Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the War, Mme. Suzuki increased her wealth reputedly, something over $100,000,000 in transactions involving camphor, sugar, shipping, real estate. Like J. P. Morgan, she is her firm, controlling absolutely the three score subsidiaries scattered throughout the world in which Suzuki & Co. own a predominant interest...
Proportionate to the wealth of the U. S. and that of Japan, John Pierpont Morgan has been reputed comparatively less rich than Mme. Yone Suzuki, 73, "the wealthiest woman in Japan." Awful was the catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan...
...children and her grandchildren know her as a wise, not very stern old lady; but until a few years ago she was at her business desk every day, brusque, indomitable, and even now she advises with her department heads two or three times a week. Mme. Suzuki is not "self made...
Iwajiro Suzuki, her late husband, inherited a prospering merchant business and died a rich man; but it was his general manager, Kaneko Naokishi, who emboldened Mme. Suzuki to embark on a succession of daring financial coups...
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...