Mara's objection: giving the Devil his due

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montgomerydou55 — 10 years ago(February 13, 2016 12:49 PM)

Just after Thomas Mara Junior leaves the stand, Thomas Mara Senior, once he gathers his wits about him, makes a valid point. He challenges Gayley to prove that Kringle is THE ONE AND ONLY SANTA CLAUS. The judge answers that the Court must agreeand even his politician crony Charlie agrees.
Doesn't this make Gayley's accomplishment all the more remarkable?

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strntz — 10 years ago(March 07, 2016 05:11 PM)

Gailey got lucky. Without the post office trying to dump those Santy Clause letters out of the dead end office he would have lost the case.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.

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montgomerydou55 — 10 years ago(March 07, 2016 09:39 PM)

Yes, I guess he would at that. (I used to work in a post office. It's the dead
letter
office.)

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muchmeow — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 12:05 AM)

So what really happens to dead letters. Are they sent to the dead letter office to be shredded, burnt, or wait to be claimed?

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joannabaroncelli — 10 years ago(March 21, 2016 10:25 AM)

Earlier Charlie is telling Judge Harper that if he rules that there isn't a Santa Claus then he likely would be defeated for re-election because of disgruntled labor unions as a result of fall off in sales of toys and yet he had no objection to Harper having Kris committed which would have the same result in the childrens' eyes, no toys delivered. By Christmas Eve most of the presents had been bought by parents and I guess they could explain that inasmuch as Kris was unavailable his helpers delivered the presents.

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Eric-62-2 — 8 years ago(December 29, 2017 02:22 AM)

But the way out would be that the Judge could declare, "I didn't rule there was no Santa Claus, I ruled that Mr. Kringle had failed to prove that he is THE Santa Claus." That was why his political handler had no objection to what happened to Kris, he just wanted to make sure the Judge didn't declare there was no Santa, period.