Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having bubbled over with affectionate excitement for Charles Augustus Lindbergh a month before, Paris last week settled down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, hero of many hours, returned again to his rose-strewn path after a brief detour to transact private business in Washington and Manhattan. The path led him to Ottawa, Canada, at the head of a whizzing formation of twelve U. S. Army planes from Selfridge Field, near Detroit. He and the Spirit of St. Louis made a perfect landing to the huzzahs of a crowd assembled for Canada's Diamond Jubilee (TIME, July 4). One of his escort, Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, was less fortunate. Circling in a close triad formation while the plane of honor...
...class had sought "saving" to such an extent that the deacons had ordered class sessions discontinued at 10 p. m. Mondays. (This was after they had discovered members of the class sprawled deliriously on the church building floor at 2 a. m. one Tuesday.) The Monday that Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh reached Manhattan a woman went into ecstasies in the church...
Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones...
Thus, a competition to carry the U. S. public in the air looms between the backers of a 25-year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane...