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Named. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.; 16 days after his birth (June 22), the third consecutive Lindbergh to bear the name...
...rules or ground facilities, except between countries which have entered into special treaties. Although highly adaptable to international transit, aviation is proceeding along markedly nationalistic lines. For this reason the League of Nations transit organization at Geneva has asked eminent airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must be considered from an international standpoint." Dr. Hugo Eckener and General Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, likewise pleaded for close international co-operation...
...three years of encounters with the press, Charles Augustus Lindbergh has had ample opportunity to learn the ways of newshawks. Also in that time he has formed two categories of newspapers: "good" papers on the one hand, Hearst-papers and tabloids on the other. Last week Col. Lindbergh essayed to turn his experience to his own purposes, to reward the papers whose tactics he approved; to punish those which he felt had most energetically badgered himself & family. The prize, to be bestowed or withheld: first photographs of Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr. for which photographers had been keeping incessant vigil...
Born. To Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, at about 3 p. m. on Mrs. Lindbergh's 24th birthday (June 22); at the home of the mother's parents in Englewood, N. J.; a son. Weight: 7 lb., 10 oz. First name: Charles. Middle name undecided, but wagered to be 1) Augustus, 2) Morrow, or 3) Dwight. Residents of Englewood flocked to the thickly-wooded Morrow estate, peered through the gates; a paid program from National Broadcasting Co.'s Manhattan studio was dropped abruptly, the birth announced...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...