Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penshurst, Kent at 10:15 a. m. with the Colonel at the controls and was about to land him for the first time on German soil. As a further precaution, Der Führer permitted Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh to land at fearsome Staaken, the military airfield ten miles from Berlin which an ordinary German civilian would no more think of approaching unbidden than he would think of committing High Treason...
...smoke bombs to simulate gas bombs, starting controlled fires resembling those ignited by Thermite bombs,* sending stretcher-bearers to bandage "wounded" Germans and handing gas masks around the Fatherland. Therefore last week the German people were among the ripest in the world for the surprise message suddenly delivered in Berlin by Colonel Lindbergh and promptly slapped by Chancellor Hitler onto the front page of his personal newsorgan Der Volkische Beobachter ("The Popular Observer"). Observed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, addressing a bounteous luncheon of the Aero Club...
Since, after all, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Wilhelm Göring have the rank and dignity of statesmen, and since, after all, Charles Augustus Lindbergh is only a civilian aviator, the German Chancellor and the Prussian Premier did not go to Berlin to greet him, remained on rustic vacation in south Germany. They did announce that "in principle" they would receive the Colonel whenever he is in their vicinity, did send their personal aides to escort him, click heels and kiss Mrs. Lindbergh's hand...
Last week's developments among the 334 U. S. Olympic athletes en route to Berlin on the S. S. Manhattan...
...Saturday Evening Post, asked permission to accept a check for $400. The Amateur Athletic Union refused, said the Satevepost might donate the money to charity. Last week the A. A. U. named the charity: the U. S. Olympic Committee, which will pay $400 to get Runner Venzke to Berlin & back...