Word: britten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponsors were active Buchmanites - ex-Congressman Fred Albert Britten, Washington Columnist George Gould Lincoln, onetime Assistant Attorney General Harry Wallace Blair. A number of other sponsors were devout men who were well aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program...
...tabloid editors is the one called "Sex Orgies." This week two women journalists expanded the story into a book, * called it a report on "the sex mores of our younger generation." Dorothy Dunbar Bromley is a columnist for Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, Florence Haxton Britten a former staff member of the New Republic and Hearst's International. To find out what U. S. youth thinks and does about Sex, these two married women interviewed and probed with questionnaires 1,364 men & women students in 46 colleges and universities. They avoided the faculties of these institutions...
Authors Bromley & Britten introduce their book with a promising question: "Joe and Jane petting on the back seat of an automobile are unimportant. Five million boys and girls petting on public highways have national significance." Their banal conclusion: "Today's young people are groping for a philosophy of living that will serve them in a changing world. They lack the measuring-rod of experience, but as a generation they are forthright, honest and courageous." Readers will want better evidence than is provided in Youth and Sex that these adjectives are appropriate for either the generation or Authors Bromley & Britten...
...YOUTH AND SEX-Dorothy Dunbar Bromley & Florence Haxton Britten-Harper...
FORTY CENTURIES LOOK DOWN - F. Britten Austin-Stokes ($2.50). Historically accurate, interesting but awkward novel of Napoleon's military and marital strategies in the Egyptian Campaign of 1798; the second installment of bold Romancer Austin's super-serial covering Napoleon's major campaigns...