Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover and the younger son, Allan Hoover, were in the party; also Secretaries George Akerson and Ruth Fessler; John G. Mott of San Francisco, the Hoover attorney; Commander Augustin T. Beauregard, naval aide to the President-Elect...
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...
...second effort, he and Brother Gus went into business on their own account. They bought, from Father Claus, one of the Hawaiian plantations which they had remade into an efficient enterprise. Suddenly Father Claus cut off all money for further development. The family row shook the banks of San Francisco, but at length they found the money. When Son Rudolph was 26, he sold the plantation and prepared to retire. He had gratified his ambition. He was then a millionaire...
...Rudolph did not retire. What held him back was another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time...
...Mencken was mentioned last fortnight by the Communist New Masses as follows: "George Sterling committed suicide about a year ago, in San Francisco, after a night spent in conversation with H. L. Mencken...