Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan. Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit called for support from drinkers, bootleggers, "speakeasy" men. Candidate John C. Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, called for no one's support. He made no speeches, signed no campaign literature, made no promises. His friends elected him Mayor of Detroit by a margin of 12,188 votes. Mayor-elect Lodge announced he would not sweep Mayor Smith's appointees out of office wholesale, would not countenance Prohibition "snooping...
...Col. Lindbergh last week issued a statement. At the request of the Associated Press, from information gleaned on his national tour recently ended, he wrote his impressions on current aviation in the U.S.; future possibilities...
...Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went last week to aviation school. By direction of President Coolidge, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air corps at Selfridge Field, Mich. He will fly the latest army pursuit plane; participating as an ordinary military pilot in routine gunnery training exercises; concentrating on machine gunnery fire at stationary targets and targets towed by other planes...
...training period complete, Col. Lindbergh will revert on Dec. 31 to his status as a reserve officer...
...Col. Lindbergh acquired the first string of honorary letters after his name; M. A. S., Master of Aeronautical Science. The honor was accorded by St. Joseph College, Philadelphia; a Jesuit institution. At the ceremonial dinner, the flyer wore a gold-lined gown, a silver tassel on his flat academic...