Word: wickham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national leaders I have interviewed over Bennett's volta face is amazing. . . . The London Times, always friendly to Bennett, has the briefest possible outline of his speech and obviously regards it as an election measure of little importance. . . . The Manchester Guardian doesn't mention it. ... I told Wickham Steed [scholarly editor emeritus of the London Times'] that Bennett had attacked individualism in business and requested a comment. He replied, laughing, I can't speak on things I don't understand, and I don't understand that...
HITLER: WHENCE AND WHITHER??Wickham Steed?Review of Reviews ($1.50). Impersonal but succinctly critical resume of Hitler's life and program by an oldtime English editor who thinks that, despite its faults, the Treaty of Versailles represents the soundest territorial order that has existed in Europe in modern times...
...London it seemed like 1913 again when a great war scare stench was uncorked by Henry Wickham Steed, onetime editor of the London Times. He claimed to have obtained from Berlin official documents showing that for years successive German Governments have had secret agents in London and Paris preparing surveys for bomb, gas and germ raids. According to Mr. Steed, whose acumen and veracity stand high among his countrymen, harmless germ cultures have lately been released in London and Paris subways and the spread of the germs recorded by German agents. Last week the Nazi press bureau retorted: "There...
...fishermen, who hate & fear it, call it "the great mako." It lives mostly in the South Seas and off New Zealand but, straying over the world, it has been seen as far north as Cape Cod. Largest ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides...
...WICKHAM STEED London Times London...