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...clambered into his Filipino-financed automobile for a tour of Tayabas province and a two-day visit at the plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like Caesar in triumph, Mr. Thompson's august entourage proceeded down a flower-strewn path between 3,500,000 coconut trees over 100 feet high-slowly on, on to Lucena, capital of the province, where eager little Malay schoolgirls dressed all in snowy white, held up an immense placard: "Welcome, Mr. Thompson; we are confident of your sense of justice...
...strutted hundreds of preening women, gorgeously gowned in native plumery. A formal ball was being held in the provincial palace. The guest of honor, Mr. Thompson, strode not without dignity to the centre of the immense ballroom, made a speech in which he urged that the acreage of coconut crops be increased, since coconuts are essential in making oils, soap, cosmetics and substitutes for butter, lard...
Miami. Four suburban banks closed, each with deposits approximating $1,000,000; Bank of Coconut Grove (capital $25,000), Bank of Buena Vista (capital $50,000), Bank of Little River (capital $20,000), Bank of Dania (capital $30,000). Low capitalization against the vast deposits accepted was one important cause of this banking frailty. But President George Romfph of the Miami Clearing House Association blames the situation on outside control and loans on outside paper...
...March on, after wintering on the Continent or in London. One pater familias or headman, Tombino, is typical of his fellows. Tombino raises a strain of horses that command top prices at any county fair in the kingdom. He moves his caravan from one fair to the next, establishing coconut-shies at each as a sideline. His children, numbering six† are sent, immediately upon arrival at a new location, to the nearest village school, presentably dressed and bearing testimonials to their character and ability from their last teacher. Tombino, large of girth, bright of eye and smile, possesses many...
...Coconut." The official version of how this debacle came about is almost as grotesque as the comment made upon it by the Berlin Tageblatt: "From the jungles of Brazil a coconut has been hurled half around the world at the Glass House of the League...