Word: bridgeporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went down, 1,527,577 to 460,537. Parimutuel went in in New York, setting Pundit Mark Sullivan a brooding: if you check gambling on the stock exchange, does it come surging back on the race tracks? Socialist Jasper McLevy stayed in as mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Socialist John Henry Stump went out as mayor of Reading, Pa. Boss Edward Crump was elected mayor of Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before resigning in favor of the vice mayor, who would in turn surrender...
...itself only 219 of the 5,443 manufacturing plants made boots and shoes, but shoes in Lynn and Worcester, shoe machinery in Lynn and Boston, cotton woven goods in Providence, Fall River, New Bedford, textile machinery and parts in Worcester, nonferrous metal alloys, edge tools and electrical machinery in Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, created an industrial organization that employed more than 1,000,000, produced a large share of the U. S.'s 400,000,000 pairs of shoes a year, helped consume 80% of the 23,000,000 cattle hides that moved from the Western ranges, through...
...Kansas City, Mo.Richard B. Stedman Anne Derrick, Washington, D. C.Richard Stern Nancy McKelvie, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.Bayard C. Stone Jeanne Sipley, Elkins Park, Pa.John E. Tully Mary Grist, West RoxburyRichard N. Thomas Elinor Bennett, FalmouthCharles Thurlow III Constance Guitner, Columbus, OhioLeo W. Tobin Melva Whittemore, BostonLester H. Tobin Sylvia Goldsmith, Bridgeport, Conn.Philip W. Trumbull Peggy Seaver, New Bedford, Conn.Arthur W. Viner Jean Freeman, Winnetka, Ill.Jacob A. Walker Marion Baird, Montclair, N. J.Edward C. Weren Patricia Drew, West Roxbury, Mass.Donald C. Wetmore Virginia Clapp, CambridgeJohn R. White Nancy Kelly, New YorkRoyal G. Whiting Priscilla Crocker, BrooklineDavid B. Williams Virginia Floyd, MiltonLeonard...
...weary Harvardite returning to Cambridge after a strenuous New York weekend had the good fortune to witness an exceptional example of this Service. Before the train pulled into each station the conductor would poke his head inside the door and moan a sorrowful "Stamford," or "Bridgeport," or "Saybrook." However when the train was approaching the captial of Rhode Island, the monotony was broken. The conductor opened the door to make his usual station identification, but he was a changed man. The sterling spirit of the N.Y., N.H. & H. asserted itself as he loudly proclaimed. "The next station is Providence, just...
Poking behind some furniture in a shed near the McKesson & Robbins plant in Bridgeport, Conn, one day last week, Post Office Inspector Samuel MacLennan found two old ledgers. They contained the record, written in his own hand, of 16 of the 18 years that Philip Musica lived and swindled as F. Donald Coster. Confronted with the diaries, the three surviving Musicas promptly pleaded guilty to violation of the Securities & Exchange Act. SEC Examiner Adrian S. Humphrey thought them so important that he adjourned his inquiry until the ledgers had been studied...