Word: britten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britten of Illinois, Naval Affairs member...
Fred Albert Britten is the Navy Department's best friend, the admirals' right arm. His predecessor, as chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, the late Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, was a Quaker. Many a grizzled seadog suspected (wrongly) that Mr. Butler's faith tempered his ardor for a Big Navy. Mr. Britten, who learned about pugilism, hard-boiled politics and the contracting business in San Francisco and Chicago, has endeared himself to all U. S. sailors by years of pounding the table for more guns, more cruisers, more Navy. In the coming session he will pound...
...House, Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, leader of the "wet bloc," was re-elected and so were most of his most vigorous bloc-mates-New York's Sirovich, La Guardia, Black; Illinois' Sabath, Britten; Missouri's Dyer. But Representative S. Harrison White, wet Coloradoan, is out and Maryland's John Philip Hill, Leader Linthicum's predecessor, failed to get back into Congress. All this in the face of the best efforts of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
Last week Mr. Hearst's Washington Herald seized Mr. Britten's speech with a cry of joy, and spread the Rhodes Scholarship paragraph in extra big and extra black type as a text for an editorial which covered the entire top-half of a page...
...February, President Coolidge made a speech criticizing but not naming certain newspapers. The speech was taken to be a rebuke to Mr. Hearst for having published fake Mexican "documents."' Last week the Hearst editorial had the effrontery to link that same Coolidge speech with Britten Anglophobia, implying that both were directed at the New York Times, New York World, Baltimore...