Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, continued his pleasure cruise on the yacht Venezia. At Venice, Count Giuseppe Volpi, Italian Minister of Finance, suave, Vandyke-bearded, came on board. They-the richest men in politics in two nations-chatted quietly, shunned weighty subjects. Count Volpi made his fortune in trading companies, was once Governor of Tripoli, has (as Minister of Finance) raised the value of the lira and drawn up the Italian Debt Settlements...
...Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, General Emilio de Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, and many another potent Fascist have short beards...
...first half of the Metropolitan Opera Company's current season, and last week had taken receipts of over $100,000. The music, hailed by critics as less than Puccini's best, is admittedly tuneful, the spectacle exotic and gorgeous, the singing and acting of Jeritza and Lauri-Volpi find continued applause from packed houses...
...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...
...Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese...