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...Coolidge, in September 1923, delivering himself of a characteristically terse remark when a U.S. Treasury Department aide brings his first salary check as President of the U.S.: "Call often." And George Bernard Shaw, in December of that year, responding to a request for his sentiment of the season: "Santa Claus be blowed!" Winston Churchill's scornful one-word description of Britain's postwar Labor Government: "Queuetopia." And President Harry Truman, in December 1950, writing to the music critic who had panned his daughter Margaret's singing: "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens...
...more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming governor, but otherwise he is the same. He still spends one entire day a week seeing people who want to bring their garbage difficulties of personal problems to him. He gets immense satisfaction from playing Santa Claus for the people of Georgia...
Born. To Crown Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, 29, and Prince Claus, formerly Claus von Amsberg, 40, onetime West German diplomat: their first child, a son, thus presenting the 400-year-old House of Orange-Nassau with its first male heir in 111 years; in Utrecht, The Netherlands...
...past nine years, while playing its problem-loaded role of banker and Santa Claus to the free world...
...Everett Dirksen merely aims to cut the total. The U.S., Dirksen said during his portion of the G.O.P. address, must pay "more attention to the conservation of our own strength and resources and less to those nations of the world that regard us as an amiable, vulnerable, jolly Santa Claus who can be slurred at wi'l and cuffed with impunity...