Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's David Aiken Reed, U. S. S.,- was first to the defense of the Administration for withholding the documents. As the Republican Senatorial delegate to the London Conference, he was Treaty's spearhead of defense in the Senate, its chief exponent on the floor. At London his part had been negotiation of the Japanese-American aspect of the Treaty, the aspect most alarming to white-crested Senator Hiram Johnson of California, chief Treaty opponent. From London last April Senator Reed broadcast a speech in which he said: "The Treaty represents a victory for no one nation...
...romantic and trenchant, one of the greatest fighting orators the House of Commons ever knew. He it was who introduced U. S. blood into the great house of Churchill by marrying Jenny Jerome of New York. Today the father of pink-and-white is the Conservative party's spearhead in debate, scathing, reckless, romantic Winston Churchill, last year Chancellor of the Exchequer. And all are, of course, descendants of that ruthless and super-successful general, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Stage-fright might well grip anyone expected to get up and talk like either Lord Randolph or "Winnie...