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...Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns to the favored Firbank theme of palace love; but its fluffy, frail ingredients, languidly mixed and half-heartedly baked, only give...
...them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House chanted: "Where is Toscanini? He must inaugurate the new Scala season." Thousands went on strike in the factories of Pirelli (tires), Bianchi (trucks), Breda (tanks) and Marelli (electrical equipment...
...tourists in Italy, which tell us so much about your wonderful old palaces and historical monuments, do not inform us with equal care concerning these very significant economic accomplishments of recent years. I hope, however, that the admission to the New York Stock Exchange of Italian securities like Pirelli, Montecatini, Italian Edison, Fiat, Agriatica, Meridionale and others, will assist in giving our people a better balanced conception of modern Italy, particularly in respect to its vigorous economic development...
...attained by Credito Italiano undertaking all the regular commercial banking while Banca Nazionale will become a securities corporation, financing industrial undertaking. Although the means are unusual, the result will be the first introduction of U. S. banking structure to Italy. Vice president of each section will be Alberto Pirelli, onetime president of the International Chamber of Commerce and a prominent Italian utility tycoon...
Signor Alberto Pirelli: "We are building a nice house, but we are not yet sure what its dimensions are to be and we don't know what furniture we are going to put into it." Against the fiscal defeatism of Sir Josiah Stamp, the studied pessimism of the Germans, and Signor Pirelli's attitude of uncertainty, the U.S. Delegates were understood to be strongly militating for a solution, with the well-nigh irresistible impetus of their moral and financial prestige...