Word: hoan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland's Miller, Denver's Begole, Minneapolis' Anderson, Akron's Sparks and Toledo's Thatcher...
...cities. Mayor Walker told of "hospitals, lodging houses and municipal institutions packed to the doors." Mayor Curley warned of a "collapse of government" unless some-thing was quickly done. Mayor Miller declared one-third of his people were out of work, with Cleveland caring for 20,500 families. Mayor Hoan addressed the gathering as "fellow sufferers...
Died. George F. Hoan, 60, brother of Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee; by hanging himself in his brother's garage. He had been refused a city job by the Mayor, who did not want to favor a relative in hard times...
...watch the behavior of the 20 executives including Los Angeles' Porter. Cleveland's Marshall, New Orleans' Walmsley, Atlanta's Key, Milwaukee's Hoan and Omaha's Metcalfe, and mayoral representatives from New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Indianapolis, was a United Press correspondent. He slyly observed that "three Western mayors" were drinking in the ship's bar the first day out, refrained from naming them...