Word: lire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope last week was examining some plans for modernizing the papal summer palace at Castel Gandolfo in the hills back of Rome. Alterations will cost several million lire, much more than he now has to spend on such work. Uncomfortable though he is during Rome's summer, he prefers personal inconvenience to diverting sums from his church projects. With such thoughts he casually remarked: "Our successor will look after the execution of this plan...
...Benito Mussolini's 47th birthday, enthusiastically observed at Milan, was chosen by the Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...
...activities. They are not all opponents of the Fascist regime. Some of them are Fascists, and when I find them guilty of any offense I am more severe toward them than I am toward others. The political exiles live apart from the ordinary criminals. Each of them receives ten lire a day and when it is necessary their families also are supported. Each man is allowed to follow his profession on the island. The climate, which is the same as that of Capri, is healthy. Nobody-now remember this-ever has had to stay there his full term...