Word: lapham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship Co. was in trouble with union stay-at-homes...
...donors are Morgan C. Preston '39, J. David Lannon '39, Alan N. Jenkins '39, Roger D. Lapham, Jr. '40, and Theodore Frothingham...
...plot deals with the troubles of "Homer Leland" (Roger Lapham '40) in raising enough cash to stage the World's Fair, and through it is woven an implausible little romance of the meets-loses-gets variety. The latter angle is handled in taste and in tune by Bayard Dillingham '40 and David Sheppard '41. The rest of the acting leaves much to be desired, although the cast can blame this with some justice on the book...
Last week a leader in this evolution toward unionism for employers succeeded in doing for San Francisco business what Labor has never been able to do for itself. In the newly incorporated San Francisco Employers Council, Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham offered his fellows one big union of their own, a master association of employers associations. He thus put San Francisco a long jump ahead of any other U. S. city and injected a new factor into Pacific Coast labor relations...
Organizer Lapham acknowledged a debt to Great Britain and Sweden. He recollected that Franklin Roosevelt's commission on British labor practice found effective associations of British employers dealing with unions on a regional basis, observed: "It is evident that the employers learned a good deal as they went along." Having enrolled established associations of wholesalers, hotel operators, building owners and managers, automobile dealers, general contractors, waterfront employers and draymen, Mr. Lapham's council announced its intention of becoming "the recognized spokesman in a broad sense for all employers, whether group or individual...