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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others elected to offices were Gregory P. Baxter, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, J. Seelye Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology, Samuel B. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sidney B. Fay '06, Professor of History, and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Academy of Arts, Sciences Chooses Officers; Zimmerman Elected to Science Association | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

Igor Strawinski, Serge Elisseeff, Werner W. Jaeger, and Archibald Macleish were among those elected as fellows. Percy W. Bridgman, Sidney B. Fay, Abbott P. Usher and Arthur N. Holcombe were among the officers chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Heads Academy | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Party Life | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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