"Nobody Shoots at Santa Claus"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:10:49PM -0400, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> Again my access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers is screwed up.  Is
> anyone able to check for me, what is the earliest hit in PQHN for "nobody
> shoots at Santa Claus" (date, newspaper, and to whom is it attributed --
> if attributed to Alfred E. Smith, was it in a speech and where and when
> was the speech delivered)?  I already have it from 20 July 1934 on
> Newspaperarchive, but am trying to find out whether PQHN has it earlier.

I don't find it before 1947, in the Chicago Trib, but I didn't check
every possible variant.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED