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...Even as a barber, his chatting to customers might lead to the fermenting of the un-American ideas. What, then, can a Rhodes Scholar do when he returns to the U. S. after three years at Oxford? Practically nothing-if the words of Congressman Fred Albert Britten of Illinois and the editorials of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers are carried to a logical conclusion...
...member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with the ambiguous remark that it was a great pity that Cabinet officials did not come to Congress more often, and the Messrs. Hudson and Britten assured him that Secretaries Taft and Josephus Daniels used frequently to mingle with Congressmen on the floor of the House. Mr. Wilbur stayed to the bitter...
...incensed with a pacifist named Frederick J. Libby, who heads a Council for the Prevention of War, and also with Professor Hull, who had said something (perfectly true) about the American colonists not having entered the Revolution unanimously. Mrs. Walker was for having Professor Hull deported. Acting Chairman Britten-of the Committee tactfully suggested that the D. A. R. pass a resolution to that effect...
...many, so loud and so persistent were the Hulls and the Libbys, the cranks and the clergy, and innumerable women as peaceful as the D. A. R. is martial, that the "Big Navy" program dwindled. After reading the week's mail, Representative Britten told President Coolidge that he guessed the Big-Navy plans had best be revamped for a Little Big-Navy- At the end of the week it was about agreed to authorize the following...
...TIME, Feb. 20, referred to Representative Britten as Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. Score an error for TIME. Mr. Britten often substitutes, but not permanently, for Chairman Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania...