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...that the organization had resented the publicity of the case. She went to Florida, married a newspaperman who later divorced her because of her "unswerving devotion to evangelistic work." Shortly thereafter in San Francisco she married rich, polo-playing Clubman Ray Splivalo, whose former wife, a niece of Mrs. Claus A. Spreckels (sugar), had divorced him because of his "unswerving devotion to sport and convivial companions." As Director of Social Welfare, Mrs. Splivalo will have charge of orphans and other dependents upon the State, also of juvenile delinquency, old age pensions. Announcing her appointment, Governor Rolph said that her candidacy...
...Another son who faced his father is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. In sugar and in utilities he defeated his father, Claus Spreckels. His father announced: "My son has beaten me twice. No other man can beat me once." (TIME...
...this mania of debunking, things which everyone knows are true, little thought has been given to the children. They have been robbed of fairies and Santa Claus and everything which makes life worth living. Now this thoughtless devastation of beliefs must stop. It has come to the point of destroying the very basis of art. What will Bohemia do, if obscurity is removed as a foundation of artistic achievement? Suppose art juries discover that dynamic symmetry may be dispensed with by a truly "original" artist...
...Next morning the Hoovers, old and young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...Hoover could have readily identified him as Lawrence Richie, a Hoover secretary who was once a detective, knows the art of disguise.) When Santa Claus Richie offered him a doll from his pack, Herbert III scorned it, declared...