Word: mosconi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain an increase of $6,500,000, annually in her share of what the creditor powers receive in reparations. Surprisingly enough the major part of this concession was made not by France but by Italy, a fact the more notable because the Italian chief delegate, Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi, has not had a free hand, but has been forced to keep in hourly telegraphic touch with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, no softie...
...Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi (successor to the great Count Volpi who has been "rotated") countenanced release of the following comparative statistics: "Whereas U. S. citizens are taxed 13.3 per cent of their earnings. Englishmen 27.3 per cent and Frenchmen 29.2 per cent, the Italian people are taxed 38.1 of their earnings?or almost three times as much as U. S. citizens...
...ministers are rotated," explained Signor Mussolini to his ministers, "when each accomplishes a cycle of fecund activity. . . . The cycle of Count Volpi as Finance Minister was completed with the stabilization of the lira on a basis of gold. ... He has immortalized his name." The new Finance Minister, Senator Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding out a fecund cycle bounded by Six Points: 1) "Immutable maintainance of the present level of stabilization (i lira equals $.0526)." 2) Total curtailment of foreign borrowing by the State, plus drastic censorship of private...
Briefly, Senator Mosconi, who assumed the portfolio of Finance, last week, is typical of the old, feudal aristocracy of Italy, whose descendants Commoner Mussolini constantly rallies to his own essentially feudal standard-a standard now ascendant over the Throne, as not a few were in feudal times...
...Senator Mosconi is not, like his predecessor, a self made man or a titan of private finance. But he has served the new Feudal Duce with ready obedience as Prefect of Triest; and he was recently Royal Commissioner to the Venetian province ceded to Italy by Austria-Hungary, after the War-a province wherein the Mosconi were granted lands and certain Hungarian titles in the 16th Century...