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Looking like a cross between Santa Claus and Socrates, M. Chéron is one of the few people in the world who was a friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never...
...urge industry in its own interest to be temperate in its demands and I invite its fullest cooperation. I want to make it clear that this bank . . . has not been created for the purpose of acting as Santa Claus to hand out presents at home and abroad. Eventually, exports and imports must balance...
...have to borrow in the next few months nearly $4,000,000,000 will be necessary to provide the cash which the RFC dispenses. Although everyone knew that vast RFC advances were being made, few people realized on what a grand scale big Texan Jesse Jones was playing Santa Claus to U. S. business. His biggest benefaction for fiscal 1934: new capital for banks, $1,350,000,000; carrying farm commodities, $498,000,000; state relief, $462,000,000. These "staggering" totals will not represent total losses. Although they represent for the most part loans and investments which no other...
Three Harvard football coaches and two Varsity players including Captain-elect Herman Gundlach, Jr. '35 will contribute their services this afternoon in the cause of 25,000 needy children of New England when they appear at the headquarters of the Boston Post Santa Claus at 263 Washington Street "Newspaper Row" in Boston...
...when he concluded his attack thus: "Some of my readers. may ask why others have not pointed out these dangers in the CWA program. The answer is very simple. No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas...