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When asked about repeal, the seductive star became wildly enthusiastic. "I think it's marvellous, wonderful, and what a time I had last night, even though they did throw my escort and me out of Cocoanut Grove. And I met one of your Harvard football players. Was he cute!--must have weighed 300 pounds, and real handsome. He said his name was Larry, and I sure would like to meet him again." Gypsy Lee said she liked her coffee black and her whiskey straight. Her favorite drink is a "Stinger." "It's the best drink in the world when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burlesque Queen Likes Harvard Men; Football Stars Too Handsome---Make Her Very Nervous | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

...until the farm lobbies in Washington put their husky shoulders to the issue did Philippine independence make more than sentimental progress. Cane raisers in Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Filipinos Freed? | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...islands' International affairs, foreign loans and defense. A U. S. High Commissioner will replace the Governor General. Filipinos will be restricted to a U. S. immigration quota of 50 per year. Duty-free sugar imports to the U. S. will be limited to 850,000 tons per year, cocoanut oil to 200,000 tons, cordage fibre to 3,000,000 Ib. To give Filipinos a taste of the tariff, collection of an island export tax equal to 5% of the U. S. tariff rate on different goods will begin in the sixth year, rise to 25% in the tenth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Filipinos Freed? | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area be set aside as a game sanctuary. Separated from native villages and pastures by dikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Slaughter | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...brands of Tom Huston Peanut Co. are many. They are: Tom's Toasted Peanuts, Tom's Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Tom's Chocolate Peanuts, Tom's Cocoanut Bar, Tom's Harvest Time, Tom's Peanut Plank, Tom's High Roller, Tom's Spun Gold, Tom's Gold Bar, Tom's Peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tom's Peanuts | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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