Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressional District adjoining Son Kvale's in Minnesota might offer a spectacular opportunity for the perpetuation of another father & son tradition in U. S. politics. From that district came the late Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of official No. 1 U. S. Hero. The late Congressman Lindbergh left his seat in 1917. Son Lindbergh then lacked ten years of the constitutional age (25) for House membership. Many have been the suggestions that Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks...
...million dollars. . . . All you have to do is just go up and slap him on the back and tell him just what you want." In an expansive mood, Alumnus Rockefeller accepted the position of counsel for the defense of a fellow alumnus nine college years his senior-Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour, who lately resigned as President of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Dr. Barbour, who was present, was shortly to be inducted as Brown's new president, her tenth in 166 years. The alumni were "trying" him on the charges: 1) "that he wanted to abolish lipstick at Pembroke College...
...ideal roto 'shots.' Lindbergh declined the offer and asked for a bill for the enlargement, which the Times sent. "If the colonel had sent the pictures to one of the tabloids for reproduction and enlargement-!" The facts, however, were not quite as stated by Variety. True, Charles Augustus Lindbergh had sent the snapshots to be developed. But he sent them, not to the Times but to his good and trusted friend Jesse S. Butcher, editor of the Times' feature news service. Honest Editor Butcher developed the negatives himself, did not offer to buy them, presented no bill...
...Inauguration of Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour as tenth president of Brown University...
...might improve it. So effective was the appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before the latter's Atlantic flight. After Col. Lindbergh's return from Paris, the Fund made him its Technical Advisor and promoted his state-to-state cross-country junket. Current Fund activities include experimental work in fog-flying and a $100,000 competition for the safest...