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Briefly, the Treasury was instructed to transfer $90,000,000† to the Banco d'ltalia, on the basis of which two and a half billion paper lire will be retired from the six and a half billion now circulating. Similar deflation will be continued, year by year, as an annual budgetary expense. Meanwhile the Banco d' Italia will be given special supervisory powers over all other Italian banks to compel them to accumulate a surplus equal to 40% of their capitalization...
...villa, at Torre del Lago, of the late Giacomo Puccini, composer, will be made into a national museum at the government's expense: 15,000 lire...
...pays you is always in the right. Saturday evening came. I said to the padrone I intended to leave and therefore wished to be paid. He went into his office. I remained in the lobby. Presently he came out. With ill-disguised rage he threw into my hands 20 lire and some centesimi, saying: 'Here is your money and it is stolen.' I remained as though made of stone. What was I to do to him? Kill him? What did I do to him? Nothing. Why? Because I was hungry and had no shoes. I had worn...
Again, Thievery. Last week thieves sneaked into the Vatican, pilfered 4,000 lire ($135) from the safe of the Directors of the Gardens, stole besides 700 lire ($23) of his personal wealth. This is the second occasion of such knavery within the month (TIME...
Thieves last week stole 30,000 lire ($1080) from the administrative office of St. Peter's in Rome. They missed several hundred thousand lire tied in bags...