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Meanwhile Benito Mussolini wound up an exciting three weeks of clapping all the kingdom's principal banks under control of the Bank of Italy-i. e., "nationalized banking." He decreed that foreign tourists who have been getting about twelve lire for a dollar will hereafter get around 16 lire by buying in their home countries new-style Italian lire travelers' checks...
...first to their new iron rings by at once trying them on. Since the warm Latin temperament packs super-sentiment into one's own particular wedding ring. Italians who could afford it pack-jammed every jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this...
With devastating frankness Il Duce conveyed to Il Papa the idea that if the Papacy will lend Italy the 20,000,000 marks Italy will lend the Papacy an equivalent sum in lire. This deal would solve the Pope's transfer problem, insure that the contributions of pious Germans reach their destination. Italy, with a 20,000,000-mark credit inside Germany, could then purchase much wholesome German goods and raw materials and thus ease the squeeze of Sanctions...
...have excellent chances of collecting from United Press half a year's salary, plus one month's salary for each of the twelve years he has served with that news service, plus other compensation under the Charter of Labor for a possible total of 1,000,000 lire...
...Italians at Aduwa, soon afterward, he made the title mean something. He proceeded to yank together a true empire by a series of bloody conquests, notably against his father's Gallas, was extremely conciliatory to Britain, died in 1913, leaving a treasure of 10,000,000 gold Italian lire and his succession to be settled by a new series of civil wars...