Word: hoan
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Other Socialists present were James H. Maurer, the Pennsylvania laborite; Daniel W. Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor; Joseph W. Swarts, candidate for Governor of Ohio; Norman Thomas, the blond clear-eyed ascetic-looking Manhattanite, who used to be a Christian minister, but left the pulpit for the press (The World Tomorrow, pacifist monthly). Perennially a candidate for something or other, perennially defeated, Mr. Thomas, happy champion of lost causes, was "mentioned for the Presidency" in the pre-convention gossip. So was Pennsylvania's Maurer...
Sirs: As to Daniel Webster Hoan to whom you refer as Milwaukee's "three term mayor" (TIME, Jan. 13) - Mr. Hoan was elected City Attorney in 1910, re-elected City Attorney in 1914, elected Mayor in 1916, in 1918, in 1920, in 1924. Thus he is a four term mayor and a candidate for a fifth term. (The term was lengthened from two to four years in 1919.) This is exceptional. Congressmen, United States Senators, may be re-elected many, many times - but they are far removed from streets, alleys, ashes, garbage, sewage; all of which may be intimately...
Happy the city whose mayor satisfies for three terms running. Happier the city whose three-term mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build...
Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist, famed among U. S. mayors, worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, was graduated in 1905, ran a restaurant in Chicago, studied law and Karl Marx at night. Now it is his just boast that few U. S. cities have higher credit than Milwaukee; that no city is so economical. For example, Daniel Webster Hoan reduced garbage collection costs to $2 per annum per family, compared to $20 elsewhere...
Replied Mayor Hoan (Socialist) of Milwaukee: ". . . We are too busy . . . making our local government worthy of respect to indulge in gallery play...