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Prince Caetani said there were 680 strikes in 1922 as against 152 the next year, when Mussolini seized power ; 7,500,000 work days lost in 1922, as against 250,000 the next year. Unemployment was reduced one third in the same period. And 1,115,619,415 lire have been added to the capital invested in industry...
Although it is denied that there is any political flavor to the transaction, last week, Mussolini and the Polish Minister to Italy, M. Zalewsi, assisted by Signor Toplitz, manager of the powerful Banco Commerciale Italiana, agreed to a loan whereby Italy lends 400,000,000 lire ($20,000,000 at normal exchange) to Poland. The ceremony had an official character, is considered in some circles to be an "Italian answer" to the recent French loan to Czecho-Slovakia...
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...
...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...