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...Francisco's earnest, able Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham made a grateful announcement: "My one objective will be to further the interest of the city I love." The effort of his political enemies to oust him through a recall vote (TIME, July 15) had failed. The city, by a score of 105,742 to 73,673, last week decided it loved its mayor...
...Francisco was in the middle of a muddle and a strange political campaign. On July 16 the city will go to the polls and decide whether to recall Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham. Some San Franciscans wanted to oust him because his administration had put through a 3? fare rise on the city's rattletrap trolley lines. To add to the doctors' confusion, when they first hit town the trolleys were not even running. They were strikebound...
Birth of Bedlam. Strong men and weak, good & bad-from Mormon Elder Sam Brannan to Roger Dearborn Lapham-have tried with varying success to run or rob or manage "The City" since it began life as Yerba Buena 112 years...
...issues was malpractices in hiring longshoremen. Bridges' union wanted to run its own hiring halls. One day in 1936 the president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. accepted a challenge to debate that issue publicly with Bridges. The steamship line president was gregarious, articulate Roger Dearborn Lapham...
...Rise of Roger Lapham. He was born in Manhattan, in 1883. Five of his mother's brothers had gone to sea. One of them, Uncle George Dearborn, had organized American-Hawaiian, and he gave 17-year-old Roger the chance to ride one of the line's new freighters out to Hawaii...