Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Harvard Debating Council have been chosen for the debate against Princeton on Monday evening, November 27, according to an announcement made yesterday by Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, president of the Council. At that time, the Harvard representatives will travel to Meriden, Conn., for the first debate of the year. The subject is: Resolved: That the disadvantages of the National Recovery Act outweigh its advantages...
...Prohibition Bureau, which came into being as a Treasury appendage on Jan. 16. 1920. Its direction ranged from the optimistic ballyhoo of Roy Asa Haynes through the sword-rattling of General Lincoln Clark Andrews to the do-nothing calm of Dr. James Maurice Doran. In 19.30 it was transferred to the Department of Justice. In 13 years it spent more than $100,000,000, took more than 250 lives. Last week its last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased...
...Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...
Springing from an idea born sixty-two years ago in the brain of Asa Gray, distinguished botanist, the germ of summer education has spread from Harvard until today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences...
...interests of unity, the statement announcing the formation of the new league emanated from Asa S. Bushnell, executive officer of the organization, rather than from the individual members. The games have been arranged for some time and the acceptance of the league program meant no change in that schedule...