Word: lira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overtime work the percentage is quintupled. "We calculate that the yearly sum thus raised will be 200,000,000 lire ($17,000,000)," said Grand Councilman Cianetti. "This is distributed among men with families, in proportion to the number of their children. The average works out to one lira per day (8½?) per child...
...hard money folk the brightest news in Paris last week was persistent leakage of rumors that Pierre Laval in Rome promised Benito Mussolini a whopping French loan to defend Italy's lira on the gold standard...
...Powers bodes ill for the future. French unemployment figures have for the first time in history passed the four hundred thousand mark. It is common knowledge that Mussolini is wrestling manfully, though none too successfully, with internal difficulties, of which rising unemployment is but one instance, and that the lira rests on none too firm a foundation. Germany's condition would cause less stoical a man than Hitler to weep. Her trade balance would be justly complimented by being called unfavorable, and her political stability is almost wholly dependent on the extent to which Germans are willing to tighten their...
Another monument to Il Duce on which Italians had their eyes last week was the so-called Lira Monument in the little town of Pesaro. There, eight years ago, when statesmen of the world were unanimously convinced that the gold standard is the only honest monetary standard and must be defended as such, Benito Mussolini uttered the words now cut deep into the marble slab of Pesaro's monument: I SAY TO THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD THAT WE WILL DEFEND THE LIRA TO THE LAST BREATH, TO THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD...
Last week, with Rooseveltism rife, II Duce was attempting to keep his promise with a spate of drastic measures in defense of the lira. For a member of the Fascist Party even to discuss the advisability of devaluing or inflating the lira was made grounds for instant dismissal from the Party, with consequent loss of all Government posts held...