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...Lords of Business are gathered in some marbled Valhalla, the late Claus Spreckels must be prominent among them. When the celestial ticker has stopped and cocktail time draws near he might entertain the other spirits with tales of his business battles. Many were the little struggles which marked his rise from a German emigrant (1848) to a San Francisco storeowner (1856) and then a mighty sugar king. Among these was the hard battle with American Sugar Refining Co., ending with the "Sugar Trust" being driven from Mr. Spreckels' territory. And there was the argument with King Kalakaua of Hawaii...
...going to organize a really effective world peace power without a 'Santa Claus'," Professor Hart continued. "The League is very valuable for making joint treaties and for settling small disputes between minor powers, but when it comes to preventing war on a large scale, it simply cannot do it. For example, if Russia should get control of Manchuria, there would be a war to the death between Russia and Japan...
...large map of Indiana a sharp eye can pick out Santa Claus (pop.: 100) in the northern end of Spencer County about 3 mi. east-by-south of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial and the same distance north of the Southern Ry. tracks. Santa Claus consists of one rough street, a few frame houses and a general store in the back room of which is a post office. The hamlet's time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards...
This year Postmaster General Brown was informed that an unknown business house in New York was sending 1,000,000 pieces of Christmas advertising to Santa Claus for remailing. "General" Brown ordered extra men and postal equipment to the village to handle the rush. Then the firm changed its mind, decided to mail from home. Thoroughly annoyed, the Postmaster General last week announced that his department had had enough of this foolishness and that on Jan. 1 the name of the Santa Claus post office would be changed to something more commonplace...
...protest. Senator James Eli Watson and the state's entire Congressional delegation pleaded with "General" Brown to withdraw his threat. Loudly they pointed out that the Post Office Department had no authority to change a village's name and that so long as the people of Santa Claus wanted to be Santa Clausians, their post office should stay Santa Claus...