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...week from ten to 25, including cutlery-famed Sheffield. Supposing Labor to be definitely resurgent-that is, supposing Great Britain to have a Labor Government within the next two years-who would step into the shoes of un-laborite James Ramsay MacDonald? Recently that brilliant British Press Pundit Henry Wickham Steed dismissed as inconsequential all the Labor leaders "because none of them seems to have the stuff of leadership in him."* But inside the Party a brisk battle to capture Labor's executive control from paunchy, do-nothing "Uncle Arthur" Henderson and doddering "Old George" Lansbury is being waged...
...days of rioting two people were killed, some 60 wounded. North Irish authorities including His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, and Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were bewildered by the violence of the outbreak, could not understand how normally law-abiding Ulstermen could be so aroused...
Stroke of Luck tells of Etta Wickham-stead who, to escape poverty, took to the stage. As Ruth Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta...
...rubber exports from Brazil were second only to coffee, consisted of 43,000 tons with a value of $78,000,000. Brazil seemed entering a new era of prosperity; great public works were begun. But never again was 1912 equalled in Brazil. For in 1876 an Englishman, Sir Henry Wickham, had taken some rubber seeds to London, thence sent them to Ceylon. And by 1900 the Far East had exported four tons of rubber; in 1910, 8,000 tons. In 1913 the Far East, producing rubber on plantations, exported more than Brazil. Since then increased competition and lower rubber prices...
High jump--First, tie between J. S. Wickham (C) and J. H. Moody (D), height 6 ft., 1 3-4 in.; third E. H. Ebelhare (C), height...