Word: lira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany today the Government rashly advertised last week by seizing the Berlin bank account of famed Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque and accusing him: 1) of having established a residence in the Netherlands and 2) of banking outside Germany his dollar, pound, franc, lira and other royalties...
...interested Wall Street. No gold shipment of such size has cleared from the U. S. for Italy this year. Smug, the Bank of Italy (having probably obtained its U. S. gold via France) would admit only that Italy had got it, would use the precious stuff to keep her lira on the Gold Standard...
Since II Duce organized his country as "the corporative state"* there had not been a single open strike in Italy until last week. Suddenly the weavers of Parabiago and Legnago walked out of their mills, struck against a cut which reduced their wage to twelve lira (62?) per day. For its first four days the strike was like any other, then bands of Fascist militia began to converge upon the district. In a sense, II Duce's "corporative state" was on trial. Presumably his blackshirt militia would break the strike...
...lira: reverse, the Virgin with a halo of stars, crescent moon and globe near by ; obverse, the Papal Arms...
Officially the Papal monetary unit is the "gold lira," identical in value with the stabilized Italian lira. Both kinds of lire will circulate without distinction in both the Kingdom of Italy and the Papal State...