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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...
...Santa Claus suit, stuffed 220 packages of cigarets into a pillowcase. Then, chewing his store's last stick of gum, he strolled the streets of Armonk, distributing packs of cigarets to astonished passersby. But back in his drugstore, he slapped his own pockets in alarm. Morosely he reached into a candy jar, ate a peppermint. He had forgotten to save a smoke for himself...
...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...