Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fading vogue since a patent medicine man named Pemberton first concocted it in 1886. Every management that takes control makes more money than its predecessors. The Candlers of Atlanta, who got the company in 1892, rose from humble druggists to become one of Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia capitalists headed by Ernest Woodruff, who with his son, President Robert W. Woodruff, now controls the company.* Since 1919 Coca-Cola has earned more than $120,000,000, split its common stock two-for-one. Last week...
...Benjamin L. Robinson '87, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, has resigned effective September 1 according to an announcement from the Corporation yesterday. Since 1892 he has been curator of the Gray Herbarium...
When the time came to put the Senate through its paces. Boss Long was once more vexed by empty seats. Missing, among others, was President Albert Asa Fredericks of Louisiana State Normal
...Messrs. Lewis are not related, nor are they professional playwrights. But they have managed to produce a drama which entertains, although it does not always convince, by placing their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience...
...Died. Asa Keyes, 57, besmirched one-time District Attorney of Los Angeles County; of a paralytic stroke; in Beverly Hills. Slashing and ruthless in court, he sent some 5,000 bombers, Bluebeards, hammer murderesses and other felons to prison before he himself was convicted for bribery in connection with the bankruptcy of Julian Petroleum...