Word: bedford
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Floriano DeArego, a New Bedford carpenter who arrived from St. Michael in the Azores eleven years ago at the age of seventeen, has a highly positive attitude toward the ceremony. "It makes me belong to the country. I don't want to live here and just say I'm in the United States. I want to be part of it." DeArego, who could speak only Portuguese when he came here, says he had no difficulty picking up English, "When you want to learn something you can learn it. I had to. I worked with American people...
...season, until the league's lamented demise put him out of work. Now a sales representative for a ski-boot company, he admits that people haven't forgotten The Play. "I was wondering when you were going to get to that," he says from his home in Bedford...
Older cities would be hardest hit--relatively low property values and large numbers of poor people mean that Cambridge, Boston, Fall River and New Bedford have been charging a higher percentage of property values as taxes so they can provide public housing and bilingual education. In the suburbs, where people own expensive homes and the major policy questions are how many swimming pools the new high school needs, many communities are already at 2 1/2 per cent. For them, the referendum means no pain, only a chance to publicly display their gleeful conservatism...
...influx of Portuguese grew around the turn of the century, when Portuguese Azoreans--traditionally fishermen--lost their jobs on Yankee whaling ships because of the declinie of the whaling industry. They moved from the coast to industrial towns like New Bedford and Fall River, where cotton mills provided work. From there, many Portuguese--particularly those from the eastern Azorean island of Sao Miguel--settled in Cambridge. Once settled, the Portuguese could bring their families over from the Azores, rural islands with an almost feudal government...
Drawing on the cheap labor of immigrants from New Bedford and Portugal were the Cambridge furniture, rubber, oil cloth and pork-packing industries. A few workers had skills as woodworkers or typesetters, but a majority of the 3000 Portuguese living in East Cambridge then were unskilled; the men earned about $12 a week, the women about half that. InThe Zone of Emergence,the Portuguese problems are catalogued...