Word: wickham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigrants, drove them so hard that 300,000 died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house. Then England's Henry Wickham smuggled rubber tree seeds to London's Kew Gardens and on to the Far East, where efficient plantations broke Brazil's monopoly. Now Brazil buys Malayan rubber...
Died. Henry Wickham Steed, 84, scholarly editor (1919-22) of the Times of London, owner and editor of the Review of Reviews (1923-30), author (The Hapsburg Monarchy, Vital Peace) and lecturer; in Wootton-by-Woodstock, England. Famed Pundit Steed joined the Times in 1896, served as foreign correspondent in European capitals, was named editor by eccentric Press Tycoon Lord Northcliffe, in an effort to boost the paper's sagging influence. A respected confidant and adviser of world statesmen. Steed predicted the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was among the first to warn of the menace of Hitler...
Northcliffe put in Wickham Steed, the foreign editor, but undermined him from the beginning. Northcliffe chivvied Steed with scathing criticisms, forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...
Straus A-11--Dale W. Wickham (Cincinnati) and Aloysius B. McCabe (Philadelphia); Straus D-21--Fred L. Glimp, Jr. (Boise, Idaho); Thayer 9--George I. Harris (Beechhurst, New York); Thayer 29--James A. S. Walker (New York City); Thayer 59--Charles R. Brynteson (Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Weld 18--Dale W. Wickham...