Word: piedmonte
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...from rural backgrounds are less attuned to unionism than those in the industrial centers of the North. Racial tensions also play a role. As in Barnesville, black workers are often especially eager to sign union cards-and that puts off the whites. Then, too, many Southern workers, especially in Piedmont towns where the local textile mill is almost the only source of employment, are so happy to have industrial jobs that they do not care about the fact that those jobs pay less than similar ones in the North. (Southern nonunion textile pay averages little more than...
...other dialects: Carolina mountain, Alabama-Tennessee, low country, northern and southern Piedmont. Atlantic coastal plain and Thomaston-Valdosta...
...native Virginian, Jefferson, 33, shares with other wealthy tobacco planters a love of good food, good wine and fast horses. Unlike most of his neighbors in the Piedmont or Tidewater, however, Jefferson has been a lifelong student of natural philosophy and the arts, a man who reads easily in Greek, Latin, French and Italian, and who, when he can, still practices three hours a day on the violin...
...tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita, announced: "In keeping with the requirement for an absolute majority, I hereby proclaim the elected mayor of the city of Turin to be Councilman Diego Novelli." Thus amid pomp and glitter Novelli became the Piedmont city's first Communist mayor in 25 years, and Turin became the biggest city in Western Europe (pop. 1.2 million) under Red control...
...elections last month (TIME, June 30). Last week also, Liguria joined the three regions of Italy's longtime "Red Belt"-Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria-when a Communist-led coalition took control of the regional council. Red-dominated coalition governments are also expected to win power in the Piedmont region, Venice and possibly Naples...