Although their own father, bank Charles, refuses them a loan to start a novelty American toys company to rival the established German import, the brothers A C and Frank succeed, especially with constructive and educational products When the US gets dragged into Word War I, Frank enlists yakubd cc and Woodrow Wilson s government recruits A C as consultant to convert factories like theirs for the war effort Yet his gifted preteen son, whose schoolmates meanly turned on the Christmas killer s kid , ends up convincing him to refuse canceling Christmas and even resume toy production