Word: alberti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alberti", Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...informed the Jugoslavian chargé d'affaires, M. George Colom- batovitch, that he had no choice but to sign the treaty, since the Italians had perfected means to foment a revolt in Albania which would have swept him (Zogu) out of power had he refused to sign. 5) Signor Mario Alberti, Director of the Banca di Credito Italiano, who arranged a loan to Albania 18 months ago, is alleged to have arranged with the Albanian authorities for a text of the agreement in Albanian differing from the binding text in Italian. Allegedly the Italian text (the "real" text) provides for interest...
That strange character of the early Renaissance whose versatility rivals that of Leonardo, Leone Battista Alberti, is to be the subject of Professor Edgell's lecture at noon today in Robinson Hall to his students and vagabonds in Fine Arts 7a. Alberti was one of the foremost organists of his day: he wrote Latin verses with ease and skill: his Della Statua is one of the earliest critical works on sculpture, as is his De Pictura on the art of painting. It is his fame as an architect, however, that has best survived, and it is of this phase...
Capacity to Pay. In preliminary negotiations concluded with the Italian Ambassador and Signer Alberti last summer, the American Debt Commission asked for a statement of Italy's capacity to pay. This was presented by the present Commission in the form of "24 monographs," collections of statistics bearing on the point. The Treasury had of course had its own experts prepare similar statistics. Mark Sullivan, one of the ablest and most reliable of the Washington correspondents, was last week responsible for the assertion that the Italian estimates of their capacity to pay were slightly greater than the American estimates...
...announced that there would be no more conferences until late in August. The reason? Apparently Mr. Mellon made it plain that any settlement must be made on the basis of Great Britain's settlement and any modifications must be based on proven incapacity of Italy to pay. Mario Alberti, Italian expert, replied that Italy was the only nation in Europe which was now spending less for military purposes than before the War; that higher taxation would drive capital out of Italy; that, allowing Italy a standard of living only half that of the U. S., taxation...