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Died. Major Asa Warren Candler, Atlanta lawyer, nephew of Coca Cola Tycoon Asa G. Candler; in Atlanta...
...main collection of the Gray Herbarium, founded and largely developed by the late Asa Gray, was given by him to the University in 1864. At that time a brick building was provided for it, and to this original building were added in 1871 a laboratory and lecture room...
Married. Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), famed mammy songster; and Ruby Keeler, tap dancer; in Port Chester...
Almost the antithesis and often the bland antagonist of Bishop Cannon is Bishop Warren Akin Candler of Atlanta, an M-E of the old school, a believer in the status quo, in worship before works, in conservatism. Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters...
...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...