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...base must be broadened, because all the incomes of all 'the rich' will not suffice to pay our mounting deficit. Inevitably millions of our citizens must contribute, each in proportion to his ability to pay. Incidentally, when this happens, and citizens realize that there is no Santa Claus, the popularity of loose public spending will suffer a desirable setback...
After 14 months of waiting for Provisional President Carlos Mendieta to turn into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer...
...Cinemactress Shirley Temple went a special gold statuette. Said Toastmaster Irvin S. Cobb: "When Santa Claus did you up in a package and dropped you down Creation's chimney, he brought the loveliest Christmas present that I can think of in all the world. . . . I'll give you this, if you'll give me a kiss." Said stoic Shirley Temple, up three hours after bedtime: "Thank you . . . very much." When Claudette Colbert received her prize, she burst into tears. Said Clark Gable: "It's a grand and glorious feeling but I'll be wearing...
...specified in the bill. On that point their unanimity could do them no possible good, because the Democratic majority, disunited as they might be on other points, were united against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should be a Santa Claus in the election of November 1936. The Republicans' next most unanimous decision was to incorporate in the bill the direct requirement for the payment of the "prevailing wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages) rather than a relief wage of around $50 a month as planned...
...Garden, Farrar and Jeritza have been bright with jewels, racy with escapades. But Lotte Lehmann is just a singer. Her childhood in Perleberg, Germany, was plain. She remembers red plush furniture, a feeble-minded grandfather in an embroidered velvet cap, an understanding mother who on Christmas day played Santa Claus. Her father, a small-town official, was determined that his daughter should be a school-teacher because schoolteachers get pensions. Lotte Lehmann is already assured of a pension-from the proud Vienna Opera of which she is a Member of Honor...