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Boston's Curley, Milwaukee's Hoan, Houston's Holcombe, New Orleans' Walmsley, Akron's Sparks, Cleveland's Miller. Bridgeport's Buckingham, Elizabeth's Williams. Salt Lake City's Marcus, Providence's Dunne. Newark's Ellenstein, Jersey City's Hague. Rochester's Oviatt. Yonkers' Loehr, Nashville's House, Worcester's Mahoney and a score more mayors of a score more U. S. cities trooped into the Chinese Room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one sizzling hot day last week. They took off their coats...
...held by ... widows and orphans . . . the 65.000.000 people who live under our care. . . . We did not cause the depression. . . . We warn you ... city of the government. rapidly . . ." approaching collapse of Mayor Curley put back on his coat, clapped on his hat and, piling into a taxi with Mayors Hoan, Holcombe and Walmsley, ordered: ''To the White House." For 15 minutes President Roosevelt listened sympathetically to his callers, promised them nothing, advised them to go to the Treasury. Thither they drove to see Governor Black of the Federal Reserve Board and Undersecretary Acheson. No, the Federal Reserve...
...only political job he ever held was as a member of the New York City School Board (1914-17). No other famed Socialists, however, seriously contest Mr. Thomas' right to run for the Presidency. One who might, if he were ever divorced from his present job, is Daniel Webster Hoan, now serving his seventeenth year as Mayor of Milwaukee. As head of a non-partisan Socialist Administration, Mayor Hoan has made his city a shining exception in the gloom of municipal insolvency...
...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...