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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spreckels. All Californians know the history of the Sugar Family Spreckels. Father Claus, immigrant grocery boy, had left Germany in 1848 to avoid the revolutionary fighting. By 1856, Father Claus had imported a German bride and settled in San Francisco. From this time on, he lived in a state of perpetual warfare...
...became first brewer, then sugar refiner. Then, as now, American Sugar Refining Co. was the chief unit in the industry. Father Claus drew a line around the Pacific Coast territory, told the sugar trust that the coast belonged to Spreckels. When the enemy ventured across the line, Father Claus decided on an object lesson. He invaded the East, built the world's largest sugar refinery at Philadelphia, brought the trust to terms, sold the refinery for $7,000,000. American Sugar Refining Co. stayed away from the Pacific coast...
...Father Claus took a boat and went to Hawaii. King Kalakaua borrowed some $750,000 from the sugar tycoon, and in return, gave him a title and exclusive rights to raise sugar in Hawaii. Then they fought over an issue of debased coinage. Kalakaua let the sugar trust into Hawaii. Father Claus ceremoniously returned his medals and his title...
James J. Hoey was another outstanding figure on the "Santa Claus." He rose to his present position of vice chairman of the national executive committee via the New York Legislature, where he and the Nominee worked together as young men. Big-framed, self-confident, breezy, generous. 50 years old but much younger in looks, he reflects his Western upbringing more clearly than his New York nativity. His Tammany connection has not overshadowed his reputation as a humanitarian, a framer of public school legislation, a philanthropist whose chief work is the Boys Club Federation, of which he is the national president...
Contractor William F. Kenny, owner of the "Santa Claus," burly, bluff, unpolitical, is the prime exemplar of what is meant by friendship with the Smith circle. He would give "his shirt" (estimated to be worth 40 millions) but no advice to the man whom he has known since they played together in the late Kenny Sr.'s firehouse...