Word: lire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Pope Pius XI wishes the new temple to be magnificent and monumental, worthy of Rome. He has contributed 100,000 lire. Queen Victoria of Spain is expected soon to give an even larger...
...less than 250,000 were lost; in October, 1921, there were nearly 500,000 unemployed persons in Italy, in 1922 the number was little more than 300,000, in October, 1923, the figure was 20,000; in the fiscal year of 1914 Italian taxpayers paid 2,245,000,000 lire, in 1921 they paid 11,786,000,000 lire, in 1923 13,361,000,000 lire...
...daily, plaintively asked: "How shall we be able to buy from America grain, machinery, cotton, preserved goods, meats, etc., if we are not able to send to America our goods and the services of our emigrants? How can we pay our War debt of three and one-half billion lire if America refuses the only means of payment open to us-that is, the export of our goods and the labor of our emigrants...
...past fortnight has witnessed a revival of violent fluctuations in the leading European exchanges: Sterling fell sharply, French francs struck a new low level for all time, and Belgian francs and Italian lire shrank perceptibly. German marks are so low as to be practically unquotable...