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...failed, water out of taps has been so noisome that citizens took their drinking water from springs (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940). Latest chapter in the Philadelphia story went back to New Year's Day, 1940 when, amid the jingling of Philadelphia's Mummers' Parade, Robert Eneas Lamberton was sworn in as the city's new Mayor. Mr. Lamberton, a Republican but a nice one (gardening in Germantown, cards at the crusted Union League Club), did what he could. He replaced worn-out motorized equipment, enlarged the police force, got WPA to promise to fix the lights...
Died. Robert Eneas Lamberton, 54, Republican Mayor of Philadelphia since January 1940; in Longport, N.J. Onetime judge, he succeeded Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who also died in office...
...with political dry rot, that its water supply and fire protection are decrepit ("Filtered filth!" the late Mayor S. Davis Wilson said of Philadelphia water), few Philadelphia politicians have ever admitted that anything is wrong with their fair city. But last week Philadelphia's bumbling mayor, Robert E. Lamberton, was forced to sit through two detailed and heavily documented indictments of Philadelphia as a place to live...
...fifth attempt succeeded. Reason: the U. S. Navy. After scared Congressmen began appropriating for a two-ocean fleet this summer, Secretary Frank Knox wrote Philadelphia's supercautious Mayor Robert Eneas Lamberton: "The Navy is desirous of having Cramp's reopened at the earliest possible time." With every other U. S. ocean shipyard strained to practical capacity, the idleness of Cramp's six ways, huge gantries, echoing shops and foundries could not continue...
Philadelphia's Mayor Lamberton, Pennsylvania's Governor James and the U. S.'s President Roosevelt in commemoration of its 100th birthday and the 100,000,000 saws it has made...