Word: wickham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High jump--Maynard, D; Minehan or Klump, D; Wickham...
Died. Sir Henry Alexander Wickham, 82, English rubber pioneer; in London. In 1876 Sir Henry smuggled 70,000 jealously guarded rubber seeds out of Brazil as "rare and delicate botanical specimens for Kew Gardens." In 30 years these seeds have produced 80,000,000 rubber trees in Ceylon and Malaya...
...Wickham Steed, British editor, a White House caller of last fortnight, left with President Coolidge a world peace plan involving boycott by the U. S. of the aggressor nation in any war. After study, President Coolidge indicated that he viewed with alarm even passive U. S. participation in foreign wars...
...Wickham Steed, British journalist, to be presented...
...Wickham Steed, onetime Foreign Editor of The Times, contributed an article to the Review of Reviews (London). In his article, he reproduced a letter, published in The Times in 1919, signed by "F. S. T." The argument of this letter was that the wealthy classes should set an example to the Nation by imposing upon themselves a capital levy. It continued...