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...expected that at least a third of 1942's brides will be soldiers' girls. Other source of the boom is high-paying, steady employment in industrial centers. Defense-job weddings showed the greatest increase in Cincinnati (51%), Baltimore, San Diego (47%), Dayton (42%), Bridgeport (21%), Youngstown and Akron (17%), Detroit...
...Bridgeport, Conn., the home town of Phineas T. Barnum, is laying down some fine new streets. They cut through the circus lots and leave no space for tents...
...Jasper McLevy, long-time Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., who never finished high school, was made a Doctor of Municipal Administration by Wesleyan...
Divorced. By Morton Downey, high tenor: Barbara Bennett, sister of Actresses Constance and Joan Bennett; in Bridgeport, Conn. He got custody of their four boys, one girl...
...authority than the present board. President Wilson backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from employment in any war industry in the community in which the strike occurs for a period of one year...