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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first part of the tour was dedicated to getting the strikers' viewpoint. A tabloid newspaper's representative was appointed official photographer. He snapped his shutter delightedly as the four dignitaries played Santa-Claus-taking-orders among the dishevelled strike barracks-shaking horny hands, patting grimy little heads, listening to angry women who had lost husbands or health or unborn babies, or who complained that they had been insulted, assaulted, injured by Governor Fisher's Coal & Iron Police or the operator's "scabs," many of whom are Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Senators Afield | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

When the three men came back, the church was silent again. They found the tramp lying in the organ loft, asleep, wrapped up in a uniform that some fake Santa Claus had worn for Christmas. They spoke to the tramp to wake him up, then arrested him for playing the church organ. He said that his name was William Nolte, that his age was 23, that he had been living in the church for a month, that he had once attended Sunday School there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yegg | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...grew this beard just to play Santa Claus. It's detachable. Want a look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...heavens, I don't know anything about medicine. I used to play Santa Claus in a department store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...Hell, there ain't no Santa Claus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

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