Word: binghams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Henry Flagler died in 1913 he owned all of the 375,000 shares of common stock of the railroad. These formed a large percentage of his estate, which was left in trust to his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, afterward Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham. A curious provision of her will, filed after her death in 1917, provided that the administrators could use the income from the estate to protect the railway and the Flagler hotels for a period of 21 years...
Last week in Washington Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs and bitter opponent of Philippine independence, admitted that he was defeated and that the next Congress would legislate to free the islands. His only hope, he said, was that President Hoover would veto such a bill. Philippine independence, according to the Senator, now commands a Congressional majority because members from farm districts want to put the islands outside the U. S. tariff and thus eliminate their competition with domestic vegetable oils and sugar. Declared Senator Bingham: "The Filipinos' chief grievance...
...Between Judge Robert Worth Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, and James B. Brown, editor & publisher of the Herald-Post. Publisher Brown is president of National Bank of Kentucky which, involved with the Caldwell-Lea crash (see p. 19), was closed along with other local banks. Now to reopen, it promises payment in full...
...attorney for Judge Robert W. Bingham, I desire to call your attention to the fact that the above article is untrue and libelous and does him grave injustice and injury. As a matter of fact, any investigation will prove that the closing of the National Bank of Kentucky of this city was not the result of any so-called "personal feud," alleged in the article as existing between Judge Bingham and Mr. James B. Brown, President of said Bank, nor did any such "personal feud" exist, nor did any such alleged "feud ruin great institutions, close banks or precipitate...
Between Louisville Publishers Bingham and Brown exists professional and political rivalry. The editor of Publisher Brown's newspaper called it a feud but TIME was not warranted in accepting this description. TIME deeply regrets the implication that Publisher Bingham had any connection with the collapse of Mr. Brown's National Bank of Kentucky...