Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlan County's labor war was hard to fix. Governor Sampson blamed everything on "Reds and Communists," though Col. Carrell later said he could find no evidence to support this theory. Sheriff Blair accused disgruntled "left wing" union miners for the fatal ambush. Evarts' Chief of Police Asa Cusick insisted the deputy sheriffs guarding the mines were really to blame. The mine operators ingenuously pointed to "adverse freight rates" as the ultimate cause of trouble...
...triangular debating team, which bowed to Yale and was victorious over Princeton recently. The new members of the class of 1934 are as follows: Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, recent winner of the Coolidge Prize for public speaking; Malcolm Arthur Hoffman '34, of White Plains, New York; Asa Emory Phillips Jr. '34, of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Edward Naughten '34, of Washington, D.C.; George Gore, of Rapid City, South Dakota; John Joseph O'Donnell '34, of Milton; Seymour Marcus Peyser '34, of New York City; and Benjamin Ginsberg, of Daytona Beach, Florida. Two upper-classmen were elected to membership...
...Wonder Bar is a Viennese importation using the modern (and ancient) device of making the whole theatre the stage. It is notable solely for the fact that it brings Singer Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson) back to the legitimate stage after an absence of five years. The Nora Bayes Theatre is transformed into a huge cafe. Swarms of waiters, chasseurs, patrons, pages, barmen, gigolos and handsome poules de luxe make their entrances through the aisles, and the proprietor, Al Jolson, works hard to pull the production together by circulating through the audience, greeting startled latecomers, insisting that there is "never...
...Glen Ridge, N. J.; and treasurer, W. L. West '32, of St. Paul, Minn. Members of the executive committee, as announced last month, are: J. B. Jackson '32, Gilbert Mottla '32, Louis Perry '32. On the play reading committee are: O. V. Wootten '32, O. Z. Whitehead '34, Asa Phillips...
...female parts are taken by Radcliffe students. The cast includes: Rosemary McHugh and Isabelle Reynolds as nuns; Asa Phillips '34, W. L. West '32, and M. P. Smith '32 as shepherds; L. A. S. McCabe '34, H. B. Powers '33, and D. A. Dudley '32 as the three kings; H. B. Wesselman '32 as Herod; R. C. Breithut '31 as armor bearer; B. H. Goldsmith and O. V. Wooten !31 as scribes, Edmund Dorfinan, '33 and R. W. Becher '33 as courtiers; P. G. Hoffman '32 as Joseph, Beatrice Grover as Mary; Alice Martin, Barbara Brentnall, and Barbara Shevlin...