Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chappie Arnold, a perennial standby of university house affairs, will provide the music, and a Yuletide motif has been announced by the decorations department. An anonymous motion to give one of the proctors a pillow and a Santa Claus outfit, however, was unanimously voted down...
Harry Truman heard the sum-up of his advisers - Secretary Jimmy Byrnes, Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley, War Mobilizer John Snyder, Fleet Admiral William Leahy. Then the President spoke his mind: he was dead set against the U.S. adding to its reputation as a Santa Claus; he wanted Lend-Lease cut to a minimum now, liquidated as quickly as possible...
...experts had long considered plans for long-term loans and mutual-assistance credits. In some cases loans might be made without interest. Whatever the name or method of bookkeeping, it was another hot potato for the Truman administration to handle-and Congress was certain to raise more Santa Claus objections...
...Poor me! At Christmas brothers are at the front, sisters in factories, mother is a member of the searchlight crew, father is in the People's Army, grandfather is in home defense, Santa Claus is bombed out and Baby Jesus is evacuated...
...Twas the Night Before. . . . In San Antonio, an ex-newspaper reporter turned Santa Claus (for a local department store), returned from lunch two hours overdue and tipsy, trod on a shiny, bright red wagon, coasted halfway across the floor, barked at the fascinated kiddies who pattered to his rescue: "Get away, you little bastards...