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Loafers in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend...
Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
...Roger Lapham has all the 'attributes which make a man successful in business, but are supposed to damn him in politics. He is rich, belongs to swank Pacific Union and San Francisco Golf & Country clubs, plays "awe-inspiring" contract bridge, is regarded by his admiring son, Lewis, as one of the world's "two or three best putters." All these things might have added up to a "Barefoot Boy from...
...vote-getting side, Lapham turned out to have virtues: a World War I rec ord; a start in life as clerk of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (he is now board chairman). As an employer member of the National War Labor Board, Lapham won praise from Franklin Roosevelt for his fairmindedness; once he was even praised as a "fair and honest" employer by militant Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Despite the earlier endorsement, Harry Bridges and C.I.O. fought Lapham. He was no Labor candidate to them. But Labor split its vote three ways, and like Angelo Rossi went down to defeat...