Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Asa Barnes Davis, 68, famed gynecologist and obstetrical surgeon, for twelve years chief of staff of Manhattan's Lying-in Hospital, a founder of the American College of Surgeons; of angina pectoris, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
Both pleaded not guilty, said the $75,000 was given them for documents taken from the Julian files. Both were convicted and await sentence.* If sent to San Quentin, Reporter Lavine may meet convict (formerly) District Attorney Asa Keyes, whom he helped send there as a bribe-taker in the Julian prosecutions (TIME, March 24). If permitted to visit the women's quarters, he may even pay his respects to Hammer Murderess Clara Phillips...
...Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy-singer, went to Aqueduct (L. I.) racetrack, bet on three horses, came away with...
...five years he was District Attorney of Los Angeles Asa Keyes (pronounced Kize; no kin to New Hampshire's Senator Keyes in col. 1) sent 4,030 men and women to California prisons for every variety of crime. Last week he joined this criminal company himself, entered San Quentin Prison as a convicted bribe-taker, a betrayer of public trust...