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...Europe, he was running the Philippines from the U. S. by radio telephone messages to his moon-faced little secretary Jorg Vargas, the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington had approved the constitutionality of giving the Philippines the $50,000,000 (100,000,000 pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which the U. S. imposed in 1934. So President Quezon, although he bitterly opposed the original imposition of the tax, now has 100,000,000 pesos to spend and is intent on getting full credit for it. To a special session of his legislature, he explained...
...Congress' flouting of the President's wishes during his vacation absence consisted of nothing more serious than overriding his veterans' pension veto, taxing Philippine coconut oil, extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange Bill. The nation was still in crisis, Franklin Roosevelt was still its supremely popular leader. Congressional elections were only half a year away...
...pair of pebbles called ili ili. Mikel Hanapi, dressed in a cape of red and yellow feathers which Huapala had made, and his Ilima Islanders supplied the music. Though they are now employed by a radio station in Hartford, they are natives who know well how to use gourds, coconut shells and rattles, as well as the steel guitar...
...pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
...therein to contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed...