ON THIS DAY IN 1918, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Liberal spending by an affluent public for Christmas gifts, high-grade merchandise at top-notch prices having felt the impulse of the extraordinary demand, contrasts sharply with dullness in the larger lines and with the not-unexpected waiting attitude that buyers prefer to maintain until prospective trends as to prices define themselves more clearly. Holiday trade was of record proportions, only a few cities registering complaints, and in such instances the epidemic of influenza is held responsible for whatever losses have occurred, says Bradstreet’s Journal. Retail dealers who are featuring the customary clearance sales are hoping for sustained cold weather, while being curious to know just what effects readjustments may exert on the buying public. Mail-order houses, favored as they were with an enormous holiday trade, continue active. But the larger aspects of things indicate conservatism, much feeling about for definite tendencies preparatory to swinging back to normal, further cancellations, inventorying, increased supplies of labor, downward revisions in prices of metals, divorcing of the Government from commercial operations, and preparations for the marketing of supplies that had been gathered for the purposes of war.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1929, the Eagle reported, “COLUMBUS, TEX., DEC. 28 (A.P.) — Jonathan W.S. Carver, 52, identified as a member of the scientific expedition which opened the tomb of King Tut, was killed in an automobile accident here today. Ten other members of the expedition have died violent deaths, H.R. Miller of Roanoke, Va., Dr. Carver’s assistant, who identified the victim, said. Miller was unhurt but six other persons were injured. Two motorcars and a truck figured in the accident. Dr. Carver was en route East from California. Miller said Dr. Carver and himself had been making the journey in easy stages, exploring en route for possible archaeological finds.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1944, the Eagle reported, “PARIS (U.P.) — The American 1st and 3rd Armies drove deep into the northern and southern flanks of the German salient today and were within less than 15 miles of a juncture in a developing counteroffensive that threatened to turn the Ardennes into a gigantic death pocket for tens of thousands of crack Nazi troops. Fighting down from Grandmenil and up from Bastogne, the two American forces were converging along the Liege-Arlon highway in a bid to lop off the entire western half of the salient and engulf the panzer spearheads that only a few days ago were threatening to break across the Meuse and split the Allied armies. Checkmated at the center within four miles of the Meuse and reeling back under the new American flanking blows, the Germans had lost the initiative everywhere on the 150-mile perimeter of their Ardennes pocket. Field dispatches said the 200,000 Nazi infantrymen and hundreds of tanks that burst out of the Siegfried Line two weeks ago to rip 50 miles across Belgium and Luxembourg were struggling desperately to pull back their overextended western spearheads and form a tight defensive line.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1962, the Eagle reported, “PALM BEACH, FLA. (UPI) — The White House has declined to comment on Republican demands for assurance that President Kennedy’s Christmas pardon for John (Jake the Barber) Factor was unrelated to campaign contributions. Congressional records showed that Factor and his wife contributed $22,000 to the Kennedy presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 1960 and 1961. Factor said in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, that he had contributed to Republicans, as well, and was shocked by the demands of GOP National Chairman William Miller. Kennedy granted a pardon to Factor which quashed threatened deportation proceedings against him. Factor became a millionaire philanthropist in California after serving a sentence for a 1943 mail fraud conviction. Factor, in a television interview (on station KTLA), said he had contributed $5,000 to the 1960 Presidential campaign of former Vice President Richard Nixon, who opposed Kennedy. When asked why he contributed to both parties, Factor said, ‘I have a good many friends and I am in the habit of making certain contributions. I’m like the fellow who can’t say no.’”
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