Word: misurata
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...Venice nobody knew what to do or say. Count Volpi di Misurata, exhibition president, was in Brussels and said nothing. Professor Antonio Maraini, secretary, immediately entrained for Vienna. A minor official tried to smooth matters by tacking a sign under Miss Davies' portrait stating that it should not be considered a part of the U. S. exhibition. When that did not placate angry Mrs. Force there was talk of moving the portrait to the Italian Pavilion. Exhibition officials, nervous as tomcats, awaited the return of Count Volpi to settle what threatened to become an international incident. Professor Maraini...
Last week the utility interests of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance, crossed the. English Channel and arrived in the British Isles. Their advent was signalized by the formation of British & International Utilities, Ltd., a corporation designed to acquire stocks in leading utilities of the British Isles and the British Empire. Control of this company was shared by the Volpi-formed Compagnie Italo Belge pour Enterprises d'Electricité et d'Utilité Publique, commonly known as Cibe, and by Dawnay, Day & Co., Ltd., London merchant bankers. Count Volpi is chairman; Lord...
Shrewd friend of diplomats and financiers is Count Giuseppe Volpi Di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance. Although a shipping enterprise brought Count Volpi his first wealth, his chief interest now is not water to bear his vessels, but water to spin the turbines of the vast hydro-electric enterprises which he controls. Recently, intent upon the development of a gigantic European electric power system, he decided he needed U. S. capital. Last week he and his associates finished a far-reaching deal with Americans who had capital, were glad to spend it for power in Europe...
Bank Backing. A suave, plump, oval-faced statesman, eyes keen, beard a scrubby Vandyke, was hailed as the real creator of the new gold lira. He is Count Guiseppe Volpi di Misurata. Citizens of the U. S. remember the business-like fashion in which he negotiated the funding of Italy's War debt to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). Last week he revealed the vast credits which he has built up abroad to enable Italy to defend her new currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international...
...trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). Later his successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli won him his title: "Count di Misurata." Finally he was among the first of rich Italians to embrace Facismo whole heartedly...