Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier, no doubt with a muffled sigh of relief, accepted the resignation; for it was known that Signor Nava, a Populist or member of the Catholic Party, was not entirely welcome or at ease in an otherwise all-Fascist Cabinet. Within a day, Premier Mussolini appointed Count Giuseppe Volpi Minister of Finance and Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo Minister of National Economy, thereby making his Cabinet all-Fascist. The only member of the Premier's original Cabinet, excluding himself, is Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, who, next to Mussolini, is the strongest man in the Fascist Party...
...Count Volpi. Count Giuseppe Volpi, scion of an old Venetian family, was born some 50 years ago. As a young man, he interested himself in Levantine trade and little by little became a recognized expert on Near Eastern affairs. He was nominated as negotiator of the Italo-Turkish peace treaty which ended the war of 1911-12. In 1922, Premier Giolitti appointed him Governor of the colony of Tripoli, where he did invaluable work in modernizing the port of Tripoli town. When Fascism appeared, he wholeheartedly embraced it and became one of Mussolini's faithful henchmen...
...Paris, starting May 18. This company, dubbed the American-Italian-French Grand Opera Company, has secured the services of Mary Garden and Rosa Raisa, also of Elvira de Hidalgo, Toti dal Monte, Queena Mario, Lucille Chalfont, Grace Moore, Yvette Ruzel, Vanda Nomicos, Eva Clark, Mary Lawrence, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo Rimini, Giuseppe de Luca, Adamo Didur, Georges Baklanov...
Artists. Miss Müller, soprano, sang with a sincerity marred only by irrelevant smiles in certain love-scenes; Signer Lauri-Volpi (Gallurese) turned himself into a human cornet; Conductor Tullio Serafin imposed upon the wavering score his own electrifying power. At the close of each act, Montemezzi appeared before the curtain, bowed, smiled. On one of these occasions, a lackey delivered to him a floral wreath...
...with him and a plan was evolved. They would sell shares in his career. They would manage the flotation of an issue of $10,000-400 certificates at $25 each. These he would redeem and on them pay 6% interest when success and wealth had come upon him. Lauri-Volpi bought shares totaling $200; the Sons of Italy, shares worth $400. Humble subscribers are buying up the remainder of the issue in small blocks...