Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi (successor to the great Count Volpi who has been "rotated") countenanced release of the following comparative statistics: "Whereas U. S. citizens are taxed 13.3 per cent of their earnings. Englishmen 27.3 per cent and Frenchmen 29.2 per cent, the Italian people are taxed 38.1 of their earnings?or almost three times as much as U. S. citizens...
...meek, cowed Cabinet of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini met last week for the first time since he sensationally "rotated" (dismissed) Finance Minister Count Volpi and several other most distinguished statesmen (TIME, July 16, 23). "My ministers are rotated," explained Signor Mussolini to his ministers, "when each accomplishes a cycle of fecund activity. . . . The cycle of Count Volpi as Finance Minister was completed with the stabilization of the lira on a basis of gold. ... He has immortalized his name." The new Finance Minister, Senator Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding...
Angelo Bada Giacomo Lauri-Volpi...
Though uneasiness continued as to the ultimate effect of Count Volpi's retirement, panic rumors were virtually scotched by the ingenious "Doctrine"-which really amounted to assuring the public that Volpi had been sacked by Il Duce and had not resigned because he deemed the fiscal structure of Italy unsound...
Signor Belluzzo was in Sardinia on a tour of inspection last week, when informed by cable, of his "rotation" and peremptorily ordered to return to Rome. Count Volpi left his office in the Ministry of Finance for the last time without a word to subordinates...