An interview on shipping, labor, San Francisco city government and American foreign aid : oral history transcript / Roger D. and Helen B. Lapham ; tape recorded interview conducted January-August, 1956 in San Francisco by Corinne L. Gilb. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California,

United States. Economic Cooperation Administration

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The National Maritime Union of America (NMU), which represented merchant marine workers, was formed in 1937, as a split from the International Seafarer's Union, which was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL). At its first convention in 1937, the NMU joined the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO). A crucial role in its formation was played by former members of the Communist-led Marine Workers Industrial Union. Among the notable reforms achieved by the union...

American-Hawaiian Steamship Company

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The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was founded in 1899 by George S. Dearborn and his brother-in-law, Lewis Henry Lapham. The company grew to own the largest single fleet of freighters under the American flag in the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the Territory of Hawaii. It was a pioneer in the building of large modern American steam freighters, in introducing oil-fired boilers, in opening the steamer-railroad route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and in the early com...

Regional Cultural History Project (University of California, Berkeley)

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Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn), 1883-1966

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Chief, United States Economic Cooperation Administration Mission to China, 1948-1949. From the description of Roger Dearborn Lapham papers, 1948-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869100 Biographical Note Chief, United States Economic Cooperation Administration Mission to China, 1948-1949. From the guide to the Roger Dearborn Lapham papers, 1948-1949, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Gilb, Corinne Lathrop, 1925-....

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Dr. Corinne Lathrop Gilb was born in Lethbridge, Alberta to American parents. She moved with her family to Washington State at the age of eight, and received a B.A. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. at Radcliffe College. She married Tyrell Gilb in 1945. After teaching at university level for 37 years, she retired as Professor Emeritus from Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., in 1994. She served as the first director of UC Berkeley's Regional Cultural (Oral) History Project, Plan...

Lapham, Helen Abbot.

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Lapham was the head of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company beginning in the 1920s. He served as mayor of San Francisco from 1944-1947. He also served as a U.S. Army officer in World War I, Chief of the American Economic Aid Mission to Greece, 1950-1951, and head of the Economic Cooperation Administration in China, 1948-1949. From the description of Roger Dearborn Lapham scrapbooks, 1913-1971. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122394753 ...