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...Spearhead of the independence movement in the U. S. during recent months has been Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and chief of a special independence mission for that purpose to the U. S. Like rivals who would not let each other out of their sight, Mr. Quezon and Secretary Hurley will cross the Pacific on the same steamer, land in Manila together. But between them is no personal animosity. Secretary Hurley took Mr. Quezon to the White House where the little brown gentleman spent 15 minutes bidding President Hoover a chatty farewell...
Well satisfied were most U. S. citizens. Well satisfied was President Herbert Clark Hoover, credited with personally setting in motion the Government's war against organized crime. Well satisfied was U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson, bushy spearhead of the Chicago drive. Not so well satisfied was Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. In Washington he lamented: "Never before have we seen Uncle Sam with one hand trying to lock up a man for his felonies and with the other hand trying to collect a good income...
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...
...this girl who lived in Greenwich Village with wide innocent eyes. One, a publicity man and therefore a cynic, realized that she was "a charming woman without the faintest conception of her own limitations-damned dangerous." The other, an engineer and therefore an idealist, thought her "like a spearhead of beauty in a difficult world." Certainly she made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice...