Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas city reform movements commonly wither after a single victory at the polls, Dan Hoan is a reform Mayor who has lasted for six terms, spanning 20 years. He represents a party which has only some 3,000 paid-up members in a city of 578,000 people. He counts the city's bankers, utilities men and big real estate owners his sworn enemies. The Press, except for a small Socialist sheet, is solidly against him. Republicans and Democrats have virtually lost their separate identities in uniting to oppose him. Yet Daniel Webster Hoan remains one of the nation...
Supposedly Milwaukee would be eager to have Dan Hoan as its Mayor as long as it could. But last week, as city elections neared, Milwaukee was seeing Red, and Mayor Hoan was battling for his political life in the bitterest fight of his lively career...
...Socialist colleague in one of the city's other three major elective jobs. The city has never given him a working majority of the Common Council; he has had one since 1932 only because two opposition members went over to his side. The votes which have returned Dan Hoan to the City Hall five times have come from conservative citizens who wanted him there in spite of his Socialist ideas...
Although he has made some very fast times this year, Graham Cummin will be up against two very good back-strokers in Dan Zehr, Northwestern star and Big Ten champion in the event, and Willis Willey, Princeton junior who defeated Cummin and broke the intercollegiate backstroke mark in the Princeton meet this year...
Late in the period, Joe Hindle, wing on the Puritan second line, drove a fast one past the Eli net tender after an assist by Dan Burbank...