Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blond hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...
...members of Congress some 250 Representatives and a score of Senators flew. Observers watched to see how Congress would deal with Representative Furlow's bill providing a separate promotion list and "just" pay for the Army Air Corps, for which Col. Lindbergh has spoken...
Retirement. Lieut. Lester J. Maitland in the Herald-Tribune said that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh "is through
Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, first of the adventurers, left England last Aug. 31 with Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin. They were last sighted over Ireland...
...Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh recently called on Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. He saw a bust of himself standing on the mantlepiece, looked at it with a pained expression, said: "Don't like it. Makes me look like a high school debater...