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...political jailbirds - mostly Communists and Fascists-were let out of the Fatherland's jails on Christmas Eve or earlier in the week. This liberal gesture, designed to win popularity for the Cabinet of essentially unpopular and aristocratic General Kurt von Schleicher, was completed in able Santa-Claus fashion by giving each jailbird enough money to pay his carfare home and buy a Christmas dinner. Prisoners arrested in summer were given a winter overcoat, mittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy New Year? | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Three Wise Men leave presents in the shoes of Spanish children, to whom stocking-stuffing Santa Claus is a stranger. This week citizens of Barcelona had barely begun to buy toys when fire totally destroyed on Christmas Day the seven buildings of El Siglo, "Spain's Largest Department Store" which was crammed with toys against the coming of the Three Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Toy Pyre | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Slater, Mo., Santa Claus. 45, farmer-minister, father of eight, had a lean Christmas, answered all his mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the Central Postoffice inquiry section received nearly 10,000 letters for Santa Claus. Addresses: The North Pole Region; Artie Oshun; Sky Heavens; Top of the Earth; Chimney Top Street; No. 1 Main Street, North Pole; Alaska; Freezing Lake, N. P.; The Happy Land Where There Is No Depression; Over the Hills & Far Away; Santa Ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Premier Thorvald Stauning, a strapping Social Democrat with a beard as big as Santa Claus's has been asking and fighting for iron control of Danish imports by the State. Last week both houses of the Danish Parliament gave Premier Stauning what he wanted as an early Christmas present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Import Tsar | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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