Word: britten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD 1932. DARTMOUTH 1932 Mays, 2b. 2b., Barber Sprague, c.f. r.f, Morton Lupien, r.f. l.f., Burch Wood, s.s. c.f., Hawkes Delano. l.f. 1b., Kramer Fincke, 1b. 3b., Pipe Vogel, 3b. s.s., Junkins Sheldon, c. c., Allen, or Britten Devens, p. p., Schneider...
President-Elect Hoover was involved last week in the time-limit phase of the cruiser question. Chairman Fred Britten (Ill.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee, biggest of the big-navy group, issued a statement, presumably with intent to influence the Senate's action on the time-limit provision...
...Most of the Republican organization (194) with wets like Massachusetts' Tinkham and Illinois' Britten voting arm-in-arm with vociferous drys like Michigan's Hudson and New York's Stalker...
President Coolidge let it be known that he resented the Britten "encroachment" on Presidential prerogative and the criticism of Coolidge conduct implied in the Britten proposal. It was indicated that Mr. Britten would receive the Administration's most awful rebuke, Silence...
...Britten, unabashed, let it be known that he was pleased with the success of his effort, whether or not it resulted in a Congress-Commons conference. Whatever was said about him in the U. S., he had the satisfaction of seeing a great deal of approving comment in the British press. The worst British editors could find to say was that the Britten message was "not very important" because he is "well known as a Big Navy man." The Daily News (Liberal) remarked: "His real crime is that he has publicly administered to two governments bursting with etiquette a severe...