Word: banco
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...Italian Government decided to repay $25,000,000 worth of bonds maturing in the U. S. next February. Surprise was expressed that the bonds should be paid off without recourse to fresh borrowing. An agent of the Banco di Roma was able to explain the mystery. "Italy's financial condition," said he, "is continually improving. The Kingdom would find no convenience in again resorting to the American market because there is plenty of money at home...
Although it is denied that there is any political flavor to the transaction, last week, Mussolini and the Polish Minister to Italy, M. Zalewsi, assisted by Signor Toplitz, manager of the powerful Banco Commerciale Italiana, agreed to a loan whereby Italy lends 400,000,000 lire ($20,000,000 at normal exchange) to Poland. The ceremony had an official character, is considered in some circles to be an "Italian answer" to the recent French loan to Czecho-Slovakia...
...Alfred Clock, an old and respectable citizen of New York, was swindled out of $1500 last week by banco sharpers. One of the gang has been arrested...
...trial of James Fitzgerald, alias the "Kid," charged with fleecing Charles Francis Adams by means of the banco game, was finished yesterday. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The case will now go to the Supreme Court on exceptions...