Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge as the guest of Mrs. Jardine attended the advance showing of the Department of Agriculture's annual Chrysanthemum Show; she received at the White House Donna Antoinette de Martino, wife of the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Countess Volpi, and Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Joe Nevin, "typical boy," called on Mrs. Coolidge and told her of plans for model boys' clubs; she received some 500 Vassar alumnae meeting at Washington...
...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...
...Rome there had been farewells pregnant with import and seasoned with emotion. Count Volpi was closeted secretly with Benito Mussolini just before his departure. And the whole Cabinet except Mussolini, assembled at the station to see him off. There was kissing. There were cries of "Viva Volpi! Viva Italia...
...accordance with Fascismo's policy of utter secrecy, the final Italian debt terms were withheld by Count Volpi even from the members of his own commission up to the time of sailing. Correspondents, eager for an official announcement, were ingeniously informed that "Count Volpi owes it to the American Debt Commission, as an act of deference, to inform it of Italy's proposals by word of mouth instead of through the medium of the press...
...Count Volpi's name is cognate with the Italian word "volpe", which means fox, cunning person, foxy person...