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...Giuseppe Volpi, Italian Minister of Finance, suave, Vandyke-bearded, came on board. They-the richest men in politics in two nations-chatted quietly, shunned weighty subjects. Count Volpi made his fortune in trading companies, was once Governor of Tripoli, has (as Minister of Finance) raised the value of the lira and drawn up the Italian Debt Settlements...
...TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value of the lira (TIME, Sept. 13), Signor Mussolini has made the new (lower) rentals which must be accepted by landlords worth as much (in gold) as the rentals they have been allowed to charge thus...
Signor Benito Mussolini was hastening by an imperious decree last week a process as inevitable as sunrise or moonset. He knew that the lira had risen* and that therefore wages and prices must fall. He gave them a push, and something like a kick...
Died. Michael S. Lira, one of the three survivors of the S-51, which was rammed by the City of Rome (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925, July 19, 1926); near Joliet, Ill., when a bus crashed into a concrete abutment...
...lira rose in one day last week from 3.28c to 3.75c on Wall Street, the dollar sinking from 31.01 lire to 27.80 in Rome...