Word: adalgiso
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Roviano's left-wing vote had been preponderantly Communist, Anticoli's Socialist. Roviano's choice of a mayor was easy and quick-local Communist Leader Adalgiso Scacchi, a miner who picked up the gospel from Polish comrades he had worked with in the mines of France and Belgium after World War I. Sober, shrewd Scacchi was not swept off his feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better...
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