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Word: cocoanuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irked when a naval officer danced up to him in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove and abused first his cigar, then his character, Band Leader Benjamin Anzelvitz (Ben Bernie) dropped to the dance floor, knocked out his tormentor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

According to Minnesota's Governor Petersen, the President once addressed his opponent by saying, "Now, Alf Landon. if you take my place. . . ." It was also reported that the President had given' up trying to eat his hard-frozen dessert of ice cream ball & shredded cocoanut after it had repeatedly skidded out from under his spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strange Interlude | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Savannah, Ga. Jerry R. & Mamie Steele Cox, Negro servants of the late Cinemactress Marie Dressier, used the $50,000 they got from Miss Dressler's will to open a combination night club and tourist camp called Cocoanut Grove, after the famed Los Angeles hotspot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...appalling thing to think about, heralded as it has been by the new bonus expenditures. And it is interesting to note that this blanket tax increase was put through on the same day as the adoption of the Finance Committee amendment to impose a processing tax on cocoanut oil imported from the Phillipines, despite the fact that such a step is a direct violation of the Phillipine Independence Act recently passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE CONGRESS | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...pound on cocoanut and sesame oil, partly for revenue, partly as a sop to U. S. lard and cottonseed producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: $200,000,000 More | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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