Word: binghams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Worth Bingham, onetime lawyer, from over the mountains in North Carolina, had never been inside a newspaper office until he bought the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times in 1918. Year before his wife, who had been the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler, died and left him $5.000,000. Last year President Roosevelt made Publisher Bingham U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and proud indeed was Kentucky to receive this finest feather of diplomatic patronage. Last week, Ambassador Bingham was feeling thoroughly at home in London and thinking he was being a credit...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Physical Education and Athletics, could not be reached last night. Alfred Worcester '78, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, declined to make any statement on the subject of the petition...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, today advised Malcolm Farmer, Director of Athletics at Yale, that he had interviewed Captain Edward E. Stowell '34, Manager Robert B. Murray '34, Coach Harold Ulen, and members of the Harvard Varsity swimming team, and that all of them had assured him that they knew nothing of the mysterious disappearance of the Yale bulldog mascot, "Handsome...
After a complete investigation of the activities of the swimmers while they were the guests of the Yale Athletic Association at Ray Tomkins House, the dormitory used by visiting teams, Bingham pronounced himself satisfied that the Harvard athletes are not involved in the dog's disappearance. He said, "I hope that if any Harvard undergraduates have taken the dog, they will consider that good judgment and a sense of sportsmanship dictate that the dog be returned immediately...
Thus far, Mr. Bingham and his henchmen have pursued a very sane policy. The informal nature of the practice, its limitation to those who would not otherwise be taking part in spring athletics, and the voluntary basis of attendance, make it possible to reconcile it with the oft-proclaimed policy of "Athletics for All" on other grounds than the coldly material one of dollars and cents. There are indications, however, that it may develop into work rather than sport, into requirement rather than opportunity. A natural desire to balance future H.A.A. budgets by producing winning teams that will increase gate...