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Word: misurata (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...opponents were in accord. All Italy joined in showering farewells and good wishes upon the twelve Italians who are to negotiate the funding of their country's 50 billion lire ($2,000,000,000,) War debt to the U. S., under the leadership of Count Giuseppe Volpi* di Misurata, Minister of Finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Volpi's Commission | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...Commission embarked at Naples aboard the Duilio, Italians considered it a good omen that Count Volpi is, strangely enough, "a self-made business man." His title was conferred upon him by King Vittorio Emanuele as a reward for his highly successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli. And it is well known that as a boy he was obliged to earn his own living as the result of financial reverses which had befallen his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Volpi's Commission | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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