Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suave oval-faced Italian with a scrubby Vandyke beard, added half a cent last week to the value of the lira.* No prestidigitator, Finance Minister Count Volpi performed this modern alchemy by obtaining Premier Mussolini's assent to a hard-headed Cabinet decree enforcing deflation of the lira. So drastic is this reform that Signor Grandi, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, commented...
Round an ample table at the Hotel Royal in aristocratic Evianles-Bains three famed U. S. citizens lifted their glasses high last week. What was in the glasses was nobody's business. But what was Secretary Mellon, who had just returned from conferring with Finance Minister Count Volpi of Italy, saying to Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who had just conferred at Antibes, French Riviera, with Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and at Geneva, Switzerland, with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Director of the German Reichsbank? What, moreover, was Agent General...
Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...
Premier Stanley Baldwin, answering a Liberal member's question, denied that Italy has granted secret political or commercial concessions to Britain in return for the very liberal treatment which Count Volpi received at the hands of Mr. Churchill when the terms of the Italo-British debt settlement were agreed upon (TIME...
...Count Volpi returned to the floor. Of the deputies, 224 voted to adopt the Italo-British settlement. One Communist Deputy voted contra populum. With unusual magnanimnity his Fascist peers forebore to assault...