William Whitman Farnam (S&B 1866)
Attorney. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Kappa Sigma Epsilon. Alpha Sigma Phi. Linonia.
23 Mar 1934 - Recommendation of 108 World Court Committees Throughout the Country, by Tom Wallace, Editor, Louisville Times, Member, Lousville World Court Commmittee.[5,p42] [Also President Inter-American Press Association[6]]
“At The Hague visitors see flags of the nations that are in the World Court. Americans ask why the Stars and Stripes are no there. The only answer is “delay.”
I represent 108 World Court Committees which since 1925 have waited patiently for their country to do its part for peace.
Editors rarely speak for organisations.
Yet an Editor is chairman of the San Francisco World Court Committee. Political leaders are cautious in their approach to causes in controversy.
Yet Leaders in both political parties are members of the World Court committees, among them governors of five states.
A newspaper circulates a petition against our entrance into the World Court.
But when was a cause so just, so plainly popular, that no melancholy Jacques of jounalism opposed it?
The petition promoter would have you believe that the Army, the Navy, the American Legion oppose the Court.
But an admiral and two former commanders of the Legion are World Court committee officers.
Lawyers - those of you who are lawyers know - love justice, when it does not obstruct the course of their clients.
Distinguished laywers of both parties are numerous in the organizations I represent poorly, but earnestly.
Judges have no clients. They deal in - or deal our - justice.
I could not mention all of the judges on World Court Committees.
You do not allow me that much time.
Press associations, although they pretend to look down from spiritual heights upon politicians, try to avoid controversial subjects.
Yet the Kentucky Press Association has endorsed unanimously ratification of the World Court protocols, finding no controversy.
In the name of 108 World Court Committees who personnel has been changed greatly by death due to age since this project began, I ask you most respectfully to report the Court treaties hat the Senate may at this session act….”[5,p42]
Since 1925 - World Court Committee.[4]
1904 to 1923 - Trustee of the Peabody Museum[4]
1897 to 1926 - Member New Haven Chamber of Commerce.
1894 to 1923 - Trustee, 1922 to 1923, President, Sheffield Scientific School.[2][4] (Yale University)
1889 to 1913, Member, 1902 to 1912, Vice-President, President - Commission of Pubilc Parks.
1889 - Established William F. Farnam Fund at Yale.[4]
1889 - Member Board of Managers of Winchester Observatory.[4]
1888 to 1900 - Director National Bank of New Haven.[4]
1888 to 1899 - Treasurer of Yale University.[3][4]
1885 to 1889 - Member, Yale Corporation.[2][4]
1880 - Organisation to merged with present Park Comission in 1889 - Member east Rock Park Commission.[4]
1871 - LL.B. Columbia 1871.[3][4]
1866 to 1868 - J.U.D. Heidelberg.[3][4]
1866 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1][4]
Died 28 Jun 1929, from TBC. Age TBC
Note: Brothers of former Treasurer of Yale University William Whitman Farnam (S&B 1866)
- Henry Walcott Farnam (S&B 1874) - Professor of Political Economy (1880-1912); Professor of Economics (1912-1918). President of American Economic Association (1911)
- Charles Henry Farnam (S&B 1868)
Yale relatives include: Eli Whitney, ‘69 (brother-in-law); Henry Farnam, ‘95,Charles H. Farnam, ‘95 S , George B. Farnam, ‘97, Thomas W. Farnam, ‘99, Tracy Farnam, ex-‘11., and Henry W. Farnam, Jr., ex-‘17 (Son of S&B1874) (nephews); Mrs. Thomas M. Debevoise, ex-‘97 Art, and Louise W. Farnam, Ph.D. 1916 and ‘20 S.(nieces); and Malcolm Oakes, ‘20 S., Eli Whitney Debevoise,‘21, and William F. Sanford, ‘28 (grandnephews).
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[6] - Tom Wallace (Inter-American Press Association)
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