Word: asa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...
...Council also appointed three committees, Corliss Lamont '24 is the chairman of the scholarship committee, the other members of which are: F. E. Bowman '24, H. T. Dunker '25, J. H. Finley '25, and H. P. Curtis '25. Asa Davis '24 will head the committee in charge of the Friday afternoon teas which begin at the Union November 30. Other members are F. S. Hill '24, J. U. Harris '24, W. L. Boyden '25, T. L. Eliot '25. No chairman has been selected for the entertainment committee. Its membership, however, will consist of the assistant managers of all sports...
Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes requested the Budget Bureau for an extra million dollars next year to enforce the Volstead Act. The present expenditure for that purpose is $8,250,000. With the extra appropriation Mr. Haynes would increase his force of agents from 1,800 to 2,050 and add 50 legal and clerical workers to his staff. He desires also an increase of the appropriation for enforcing the antinarcotic act from...
Worn by the cares of office, Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes returned to his home at Hillsboro, O., for rest. Washington, during his absence, buzzed with rumors that he would be a candidate for the next Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. His qualifications: 1) a close friendship with the late President Harding; 2) dryness enough to make him acceptable to the Anti-Saloon League and the two Ohio Senators, Willis and Fess...
Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes had a ten-minute conference with President Coolidge. The public was not vouchsafed any information on what passed between. Nevertheless, correspondents drew the inference that Mr. Haynes would soon retire from his post. The reasons given are not without plausibility...