Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finance Minister Signor Alberto de Stefani announced to the Italian Bankers' Association that there will be no deficit in the forthcoming budget, due to great reduction in the public debt during the present financial year...
...Senator Alberto Bergamini, for many years editor of the Giornale d'Italia and President of the Press Association, was about to enter his villa on the outskirts of Rome. Masked robbers followed him, stabbed him, beat him with steel gloves, relieved him of 1,300 lire and his gold presentation medals. Soon afterwards came the Senator's chauffeur upon the scene. He fired his revolver; the robbers fled. The Carabinieri arrested two suspects, Senator Bergamini was removed to a hospital...
...membership of the committees is : U. S.: Owen D. Young, General C. G. Dawes, Henry M. Robinson; Great Britain: Sir Robert Kindersley, Sir J. C. Stamp, Reginald McKenna; Italy: Dr. Alberto Pirelli, Professor Frederico Flora, Dr. Mario Alberts; Belgium: MM. Francqui, Hontard, Janssens...
...Alberto J. Pani, who recently succeeded General Adolfo de la Huerta as Secretary of the Treasury, drew up a series of charges against his predecessor in a paper For the Information of the President. Señor Pani said: "I believe that it is urgent on your part to dictate measures that will relieve us of an immediate financial catastrophe...
General Adolfo de la Huerta then made a cutting rejoinder to his accusers: "I am not surprised by the declarations of General Alvaro Obregon nor the report of the stupid and unjust Alberto J. Pani. It is well known that they only waited until I was accepted as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, nominated by the Mexican people, to pretend to stain my name. There is more yet. Treacherously and cowardly they have threatened to take my life. What less than that, they start with trying to take away my honor, which I always tried to keep...