Word: whitehead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surrounded by such dignitaries as President Conant, Alfred North Whitehead, Heinrich Bruening, Dean Hanford, and host Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Harvard's president from 1909 to 1933 performed the now traditional ceremony of cutting his birthday cake, which was brought in by famed Bellboy hostess Mrs. Mary Healey...
...addition to Brinton the Senior Fellows are President Conant; Dean Ferguson; President Lowell; Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy , emeritus; John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus; Lawrence J. Henderson, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Samuel E. Moriston, professor of History: and Arthur D. Nock. Fronthingham Professor of the History of Religion...
Unable to get in the actors' front door, I. A. T. S. E.'s President George Browne two months ago found a back door open. On charges of mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety performers). When Whitehead, supported by A. F. A.'s sentimental President Sophie Tucker, fought back and A. A. A. A. finally withdrew A. F. A.'s charter, Stagehand Browne stepped in, gave Whitehead and his rebels an I. A. T. S. E. charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl...
Threatened with a wholesale bolt to C. I. O., the council decided this week to give jurisdiction of former A. F. A. members back to the actors, then got down to saving what face it could for Councilman Browne and Secretary Whitehead...
Unhappiest individual in all this was A. F. A.'s oldtime Comedienne Sophie Tucker, 55, who as its non-salaried president stuck by Mr. Whitehead and loyally condoned his switch to Stagehand Browne. For this she was suspended by all-powerful Equity and other subsidiaries of Four As (barring her in effect from stage, screen and radio), pitied by Thespians who concluded that Sophie at last was showing...