Word: chamberlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...
...Flyers Chamberlin and Levine hustled to Bremen to meet their respective wives, who arrived from the U. S. Said Mrs. Chamberlin on seeing her husband: "Why, your knickers are awful. Didn't you even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in three hops. The two wives were reported to be feeling ill after the first hop. ¶"The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires...
Coolidge's Congratulations. The Jewish Press was irate because President Coolidge ignored Passenger Levine in cabling congratulations to Pilot Chamberlin. Said The Day (Jewish daily published in Manhattan) : "At last we, too, are convinced of the great economy of our President. He is so parsimonious, he watches so closely the cash register of Uncle Sam that even the great sum of about 66c (the cost of cabling three words to Germany) is of importance...
Cancelled Stamps. Postmaster General Harry S. New reprimanded Fred Sealy, Hempstead, L. I., postmaster, because he had cancelled air mail stamps on 250 letters which Passenger Levine carried across the Atlantic. Neither Levine nor Chamberlin had any right to carry U. S. mail. Furthermore, the cancellation and the trip to Europe increased the value of each stamp from a few cents to $50 to $1,000, according to varying estimates. Several dozen of the letters bearing these stamps were said to be addressed to Passenger Levine...
...young U. S. citizens aspired last week to the publicity, if not the glory, achieved by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his emulators, Messrs. Chamberlin and Levine (see above). In Newark, N. J., one aspirant, Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly affixed a restaurant stool to the top of a 50-foot flagpole rising atop the St. Francis Hotel, then sat down on the seat...