Word: bridgeporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to an Associated Press dispatch, Harvard has been left $669,882 in the will of Gregory S. Bryan, '87, retired manufacturer and resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who died last October...
...provisions of the will, Harvard was named residuary legatee of the estate, which was valued at $997,882. An inventory of the estate was filed in the Probate Court, Washington, Connecticut, last Wednesday, by the Bridgeport Trust Co., trustee. A bequest of $300,000 was made to the town of Washington for a memorial besides eight bequests of $1,000 each...
...must say nothing new or important but rather spreads goodwill and nice sentiments. As Vice President, Calvin Coolidge used to charge a fee, plus expenses, for such speeches. In May 1923, he asked and received $250 for a Memorial Day address to the United Patriotic Societies, Inc., at Bridgeport, Conn. This fee rose to plague him in the 1924 presidential campaign when Democrats denounced it as "cheap stuff," when Republicans insisted it was a "customary charge...