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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most beginners in skiing feel that their skis should not be waxed because it might make them go too fast," said Warren Raymond, ski professional with the Asa C. Osborn Co., yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Professional Advises Beginner Of Average Ability to Use Lacquer, Wax | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

Facing a stiff task of reorganizing the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics along with the I. C. 4A, Asa S. Bushnel newly appointed director, at a press luncheon of Metropolitan and CRIMSON Sports Editors, yesterday asserted that his biggest fight will be determining the appointment of officials for the 11 leagues under his supervision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

Plans for the meet are being formulated by the Track and Field Committee, consisting of Asa S. Bushnell, Princeton, chairman and executive director of the I.C.4-1., Stanley de J. Osborne, Harvard, H. Jamison Swarts, Pennsylvania, Pincus Sober, C.C.N.Y., Vincent W. Farley, Manhattan, and Francis J. Brennan, Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-Five Colleges Are Likely to File Entries for I.C.4A Track Championship | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...these more than 32,000 mounts were added to the organized collection, bringing the total at the herbarium to approximately 950,000. Based on the private collections of Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, the Herbarium is the world's finest collection of North and South American flore, representing more than a hundred years of continuous, carefully directed growth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Million Mark in Sight as Herbarium Collection Adds 32,000 New Plants | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...Asa Philip Randolph began organizing porters. Having been duped in the past, many of them were suspicious. Other Negroes fought the union for a price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Brotherhood | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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