Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Superior Court last week Charlotte Anita Whitney, 68-year-old daughter of a onetime State Senator and niece of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln, was convicted of "false swearing" to signatures on Communist petitions for a place on the ballot, faced a possible sentence of six years in prison...
...attestations, got out warrants for their arrest. Last February one of them, a young woman named Louise Todd, was convicted of perjury, sentenced to one to 14 years in Tehachapi Women's Prison. Embarrassed authorities overlooked six small-fry Reds, but they could not ignore famed Charlotte Anita Whitney. Last fortnight she was brought to trial...
Handsome, gentle-born Anita Whitney started life as a social worker, says she was turned to radicalism by the futility of charity as a method of ending misery. Because she was a charter member of California's Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Production Staff for the play is as follows: Production Manager, Whitney M. Cook '36, president of the Club: Assistant Production Manager, Harry B. R. Patch, Jr. '38; House Manager, Howard R. Patch, JR. '38; Patronesses, Charles O. Richardson '37, and John H. Benton '37; Programs, Edward H. Turner '36, set designs, Edward Sandoz '39 and Murray S. Harris '36; and Photographic Chairman, Frederic M. Miller...
William M. Hunt, II '36 will take the part of Torvald Helmer, and Michael Linenthal '37 that of Krogstad. Joseph Gratz '36 will play Doctor Rank, and Whitney M. Cooke '36 that of the porter. These men are all members of the Harvard Dramatic Club...