Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan's Harlem, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters staged a "victory" mass meeting. The victory was a contract signed in Chicago with The Pullman Co., and the meeting was a triumphant welcome by the Harlem porters for the returning Brotherhood president, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph who brought back some $2,000,000 in pay increases. Minimum wage for train porters was hiked from $77.50 per month to $89.50. For maids from $75 to $97.50.* A basic 240-hour month was established, time-and-a-half for overtime provided after 260 hours, working rules & regulations...
...city-supported medical college which would eventually form the nucleus of a university. Nine years later, with a law school added, the institution became the University of Louisville, first municipally founded and supported university in the U. S. This week at the end of another March, President Raymond Asa Kent officially launched the three months' round of visits, banquets, speeches and solemn academic exercises that will make up the University of Louisville's Centennial...
...Professor Wyman has established a museum of comparative anatomy; and Professor Agassiz has also a museum, of which the fish collection is superior to that of the British Museum or the Jardin des Plantes, owing to the immense labors of the professor in Brazil. Asa Gray is the Professor of Botany, and, as all botanists know, is the Hooker of the United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some...
...Marble Savings Bank's secret could not keep forever. Finally State's Attorney Asa Bloomer of Rutland heard of it. Last June he broke the case wide open by ordering the arrest of former Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise...
...reproduction of President Eliot's voice, taken from the speech in praise of Asa Grey, is remarkable because it was made in the very earliest days of Movie-tone, and is not as clear as it might...