Word: asa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost the antithesis and often the bland antagonist of Bishop Cannon is Bishop Warren Akin Candler of Atlanta, an M-E of the old school, a believer in the status quo, in worship before works, in conservatism. Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters...
William E. Borah Theodore Elijah Burton William M. Butler Joseph G. Cannon-Arthur Capper Calvin Coolidge James C. Couzens Albert B. Cummins-Charles Curtis Dwight F. Davis James J. Davis F. Trubee Davison Charles Gates Dawes Chauncey M. Depew-Frederick H. Gillett Warren G. Harding-Roy Asa Haynes Will H. Hays Myron T. Herrick Herbert Hoover Alanson B. Houghton Charles Evans Hughes Frank B. Kellogg Robert M. La Follette-Henry Cabot Lodge-Nicholas Longworth Frank O. Lowden Ruth Hanna McCormick Andrew W. Mellon Dwight Whitney Morrow Harry S. New Hiram Johnson Gifford Pinchot Elihu Root William Howard Taft Andrew Volstead...
...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...
...Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), blackface comedian, said to Producer J. J. Shubert over long-distance telephone: "I'd do anything in the world just to help you out-for a certain sum." So it was agreed that Mr. Yoelson would appear in A Night in Spain, musical comedy now running in Chicago, at a salary of $10,000 a week for four weeks...
...Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication he had had no allies in his opinions. Afterward he found a few (notably Thomas Huxley, Asa Gray, Alfred Russell Wallace, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell), but most of the civilized world thought the book was a fairy tale and the author a misguided fool...