Word: piedmonte
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...decade ago, as a fresh-from-college reporter on the Greenville Piedmont, Ashmore got a big hand in the Carolinas by touring "the Deep North" to do a series on Tobacco Roads above the Mason-Dixon line. He took charge of the News's editorial page after serving as an infantry lieutenant colonel in Europe. His campaigns (for two-party politics, racial and religious tolerance, votes for Negroes, higher pay for teachers) have established him as neither a Yankee-lover nor a deep-dyed Southerner...
Last week, in Atlanta's rambling Piedmont Hospital, Gene Talmadge grew terribly ill-he was suffering from hemolytic jaundice and cirrhosis of the liver. When the word got out, scores of policemen and firemen lined up at the hospital to offer blood. The Governor-elect was given transfusions. But he sank into a coma. One night at week's end he hiccuped loudly. Then his breathing stopped...
...Aragon-Baldwin Mills, Duncan Mills, M. T. Stevens & Sons Co., Slater-Carter-Stevens, Inc., Victor-Monagha'n Co., Watts Mills, Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Republic Cotton Mills, Wallace Manufacturing...
...Ousted Umberto II, who joined his family five days later., took for his exile the title of Count of Sarre after an ancient castle of the Savoys in Piedmont...
...Chapman is a man with plenty of bounce; he is also too lucky and too versatile to be kept down for long. After twelve stormy years in the major leagues as infielder, outfielder, champion base-stealer, he became manager of the Richmond Colts in the Piedmont League. There he distinguished himself by getting thrown out of baseball for a year for slugging an umpire. Last year he came back as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Last week, 14 days after being traded down the river to the hopeless Philadelphia Phillies, he became a big-league manager...