Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Finance Minister Count Volpi was received with extraordinary acclaim at Rome after negotiating the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925) persistent rumors have since envisioned him at odds with Premier Mussolini...
...Signor Gualino, director and founder of the big Viscosa artificial silk works, which employ thousands of men and women, went recently to Mussolini and declared he must close all his mills unless he got working capital...
...Then I'll be arrested,' said Gualino. Gualino's tone so impressed Mussolini that he sent him back to Turin with 300,000,000 lire ($13,470,000) to carry on with. . . . Volpi was furious and sent in his resignation. Mussolini curtly told him he would be dismissed when the moment came. 'Then I'm a prisoner,' said Volpi, hero of the Italo-American debt settlement and multimillionaire. Said Mussolini: 'If you put it that...
...delegation of civic patriots from Caltagirone, Sicily, sought the dark, high-ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi last week and humbly petitioned that he would deign to raise their region to the rank of a province...
Suddenly the brow of Signor Mussolini relaxed. Rising he cried: "Citizens, I shall create no new provinces until 1932. But do not despair! . . . When that time comes, I shall reward those regions which have shown themselves the most laborious, best disciplined and most prolific. . . . Citizens! Return to Caltagirone and achieve these three glorious goals...