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Barred Gates. In spite of the shortage of skilled labor, black citizens are unwelcome in many war industries. As the war boom got going last year, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters planned to forestall discrimination in defense plants by a protest march of 50,000 Negroes on Washington. When he got wind of the plan, Franklin Roosevelt sent for Porter Randolph. After their conference, the President issued an executive order forbidding color discrimination in defense industries. Negroes thought the President had passed a miracle second only to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The President...
Brooklyn, U.S.A. (by John Bright & Asa Bordages; produced by Bern Bernard & Lionel Stander). The Brooklyn "businessmen" who operated as Murder Inc. here return unsoftened and undisguised. No hopped-up killer-diller, Brooklyn, U.S.A. is as tough, cold-blooded and obscene as the rats who are its characters. A fast two-man job with an ice pick in a barbershop creates more horror, carries more conviction than Hollywood's slickest thrill-mongering. But once the D.A. gets the mobsters on the run, the play loses its fascinating documentary flavor, becomes just another melodrama...
Died. Judge John Slaughter Candler, 80, last of Georgia's famed Candler (Coca-Cola) brothers; in Atlanta. Best-known of the family were Methodist Bishop Warren A., Coca-Cola King Asa G. Judge John retired from Georgia's Supreme Court bench...
Founded by Asa Gray...
...Herbarium was created in 1862, when Doctor Asa Gray, who held the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History at Harvard, gave his library and his 200,000 plant specimens to the old Botanical Gardens, with the stipulation that a fire-proof building should be constructed to house the valuable collection...