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First, he said, it may become a "Santa Claus economy--one in which the Government makes large handouts under the cover of meeting needs, but for the real purpose of buying votes...
With his vigorous news pages, Dana ran blistering editorials against Boss Tweed, the Crédit Mobilier and the Whisky Ring. Yet the Sun also sentimentally assured eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
...break: the Sun annually reprinted the "Yes, Virginia" editorial, ran such departments as Dogs, Cats, and Tropical Fish, never deviated from its dignified, colorless makeup. The Republican Sun's editorial page seemed to some to be against almost every social welfare plan since Virginia's Santa Claus. To its credit, the Sun printed plenty of A.P. news and prided itself on its financial, art and education pages, but it pinched pennies covering local news and often did not move as fast as it should. Once, when a World-Telegram reporter rushed through the Sun's city room...
Christmas shoppers along Buenos Aires' swank Calle Florida found store windows featuring snow-sprinkled effigies of Santa Claus cheek by jowl with scanty bathing suits, tropical clothing and camping gear. In Argentina's interior cities of Tucumán, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero, the mercury climbed to 106°. That, announced the Argentine weather man, made it the hottest December on record...
...fifth postwar Christmas found the free world steadily recovering, but it was a recovery that still depended on the U.S. Santa Claus. More perhaps than the larger bounties of Marshall Plan aid, and of loans negotiated by diplomats and bankers, it was the gift parcel from America which had become a sign of the world's continuing need, and a symbol of American generosity...