Word: britten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
Upon Don Miguel Cruchaga, Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., strolling to his Embassy in a white linen suit, came Mrs- Fred Albert Britten, wife of the Congressman. Chortled she: "Why, Mr. Ambassador, you look like a glass of milk...
...Received from Minnesota's Maas a bill to abolish first and some second class postmasterships for economy and efficiency's sake. In each office the No. 1 civil service employe would be put in charge. ¶ Received from Illinois' Britten a bill to militarize the Administration of Hawaii under the Army or Navy. ¶ Defeated (228-to-169) a resolution to bring up a bill legalizing 2.75% beer...
...Heard Chicago's Britten denounce Senator Glass's charge (see col. 2) as a "dastardly lie" (later changed to "deliberate misstatement" in the Record...
That the U. S. Scouting Fleet maneuvered off Montauk Point last summer was due as much to the adroitness of Press Agent Hannagan as it was to the Navy wire pulling of Promoter Fisher or Congressman Fred Albert Britten (TIME...