Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertaining the Italian debt-funding Commission at dinner, someone brought up for conversation "the personality of Benito Mussolini." It was agreed that he had a genius for organization and then-so the story ran-Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur turned to his neighbor at table, Signor Alberto Pirelli, "financial wizard of Italy," and remarked...
...Signor Alberto de Stefani, Minister of Finance, called upon Premier Benito Mussolini, to whom he said, in effect: "Certain people in the Party have criticized me for balancing the State budget at the expense of municipal finance. In vain have I defended myself; and in order to silence these hostile voices, I offer you my resignation." With expressions of regret the Premier accepted the Finance Minister's resignation...
...Stefani. Alberto de Stefani became Minister of Finance in 1922, since when he has worked miracles for Italian finance, turning a heavy deficit into a surplus. Opposition to him crystallized last spring when he issued certain decrees regulating Stock Exchange transactions which, however brilliant in theory, were disastrous in practice...
King Vittorio Emanuele opened to the public the newly excavated Forum of Augustus. In subterranean passages, the Royal party viewed the old State vaults which are said greatly to resemble those of the present Italian Treasury. Commenting upon their similarity, Finance Minister Alberto de Stefani laughingly said: "Like our vaults, there is no money in them...
...King Carlo Alberto granted to his Sardinian subjects a Statuto fondamentale del Regno, or Constitution. An expansion of that Constitution has served Italy until the present, but Benito proposed to have it changed...